Monday, December 8, 2014

Chicago City Council Chooses Suicide By Minimum Wage

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel just called an "emergency" session of the Chicago City Council to vote on the city's minimum wage hike

IBD reports from Rhamaland:
A city teetering on the brink of insolvency passes a minimum wage that would reach $13 by 2019, higher than the minimum elsewhere in a state...What could go wrong?

Ignoring the first rule of holes (when you're in one, stop digging), the Chicago City Council, in a Tuesday emergency session called by Mayor and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, voted 44-5 to raise the city's minimum wage from the current statewide level of $8.25 an hour to $10 on July 1, with future increases bringing it to $13 by 2019. After that, it will be pegged to inflation....

"Competitiveness" isn't found in the leftist lexicon, but the concept of a living wage is. This notion says that employees should be paid based not on the value of their work but on the demands of their lifestyles. Street protests and the lobbying of pandering policymakers have replaced a good education and an improved skill set.

11 comments:

  1. yeah but Chicago votes for mayor in February 2015 which isn't a coincidence I suspect.

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  2. It boggles the mind how minimum wage laws continue, you need to be the most brain dead fool not to see that minimum wage is destroying the very people its purported to help, or a person of compromised moral's who understands this reality perfectly and advocates it anyway.

    some bad laws just never die, and this is one is the poster child of bad laws.

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    1. Most Americans had their brains euthanized in the public schools.

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    2. Beauty, how true. Proof is the election of both shrub and obongo twice!

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    3. It really doesn't surprise me to be honest, hell Lou Dobbs who I once considered to be one of the few in the MSM that actually seemed independent from the rest supports minimum wage.

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  3. On top of it the state wants to build an expressway right into the heart of Indiana. It's not enough that there is already an economic dead zone created by high taxes and other government actions along the Indiana border, they are want to enlarge the drain and increase the costs to stay.

    Why the minimum wage? Simple, power.

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  4. Way back when I had a job working working minimum wage (early 90s, $3.35/hr), I worked hard to get raises. Every 3 months or so I would get a 0.15 or .20 raise. Soon, I was at $4.25/hr and just at that time, the minimum wage was also raised to $4.25. I was young and so of course my first reaction was, "WTF!". But I soon realized that my hard work came with one other perk. I could literally pick my schedule which was nice when I was busy with school. And during times like X-mas break and summer vaycay I could work as much as wanted because MY labor was preferred over others. I typically worked 40-50hrs/wk during those times, taking shifts at multiple stores. But that perk has since been legislated away. It's a shame really, because there is no longer any incentive to work hard or develop a work ethic at minimum wage jobs.

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  5. So the prog-lefties want to turn minimum wage into a "living wage." What are they trying to do? Create a new, permanent underclass? Nahhh....

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  6. To each according to his wants. From each according to his lack of abilities.

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  7. The goal is to drive blacks out of Chicago and make it attractive to SWPL and hipster types. An increase in the minimum wage will drive many black people out.

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