>> Give me a credible study from a non winger think tank, and you might convince me.
So, what you're saying, is find liberals who believe the minimum wage will hurt the employment prospects of low-skilled workers?
How about Bill Gates (who appears to understand things perfectly):
“Well, jobs are a great thing. So you have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution, and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things — or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.”
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Other Seattle liberals comment:
Restaurant owner John Platt, described by the Times as a “liberal do-gooder” who routinely feeds the homeless, volunteers at public schools and organizes fundraisers for environmental causes, offers a stronger opinion of Seattle’s proposed $15 minimum wage. Calling such a wage “outlandish” and “radical,” Platt told the Times he would be forced to either close his business or eliminate the health coverage he currently provides. Platt said the wage movement is becoming “cultlike,” with dissenters, regardless of their liberal resume, being attacked for being “too rich” or “exploiting the working poor.”
Bill Hobson is director of Seattle’s nonprofit Downtown Emergency Service Center. He says a $15 minimum wage would be devastating to his organization’s efforts to help the homeless. Calling himself a “1960s radical,” Hobson told the Times he supports the idea of such a high wage, but he simply cannot pay an additional $1.25 million to the 520 full-time employees who work for the Center. A $15 wage would force him to cut services, which include providing shelter, care and counseling to the city’s thousands of homeless people. |
