Socialism claims another business

[Bendintheriver]

How many businesses have had to close their doors due to liberal idiocy?
Nothing says socialism like paying people who have made poor choices in their lives a living wage to flip burgers at McDonalds.
Well thought out and brilliant plan you socialist idiots.
Seattle waffle shop owner shutters business amid new $20 minimum wage: 'I’ve cried every day’ | Fox Business

 

[CallMeBigErn]

I know just the spot for Ms. Luckenbach's struggling West Seattle Fox News Waffle Haus.
You know what time it is.

 

[thechatch]

Large Corps can scale and absorb the 20.00/MW
They can more easily pass costs down and restructure/automate to maintain profitability.
SBOs cannot. Those that survived COVID and inflation will die from the MW hike. Those that survived COVID that will be killed with further regulation as long as there’s a Democrat in the Oval Office.
The left arm of the federal government does not want small business owners. They want large corporations because it’s easier to herd 10 fat cats than it is to herd 10,000 lean ones.

 

[RaceBannon]

We've seen the end of the myth that big corps hate government regulation
They buy the government and use regulation to eliminate competition

 

[HHusky]

How many businesses have had to close their doors due to liberal idiocy?
Nothing says socialism like paying people who have made poor choices in their lives a living wage to flip burgers at McDonalds.
Well thought out and brilliant plan you socialist idiots.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/seattle-waffle-shop-owner-shutters-business-amid-new-20-minimum-wage-ive-cried-every-day

Restaurants almost never fail. Must be liberals.

 

[Bendintheriver]

How many businesses have had to close their doors due to liberal idiocy?
Nothing says socialism like paying people who have made poor choices in their lives a living wage to flip burgers at McDonalds.
Well thought out and brilliant plan you socialist idiots.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/seattle-waffle-shop-owner-shutters-business-amid-new-20-minimum-wage-ive-cried-every-day

Restaurants almost never fail. Must be liberals.

Sure, that might be an intelligent take if we hadn't seen decades old successful business owners go out of business due to artificially increased minimum wages.
No, really hh, brilliant take…………. if you are an idiot.

 

[HHusky]

already struggling restaurant goes out of business
already struggling poaster compares it to sears roebuck

 

[Bendintheriver]

Wow, a classic socialist take ern. Screw the little guys. The government has involved itself in private businesses again. The history of those failures by government are consistently tragic and wrong. But what do you care? The big bad socialists like picking on the little guys. Precisely why you lost this last election. Will you idiots ever learn or are you doomed to continue making disastrous decisions ?

 

[HHusky]

Wow, a classic socialist take ern. Screw the little guys. The government has involved itself in private businesses again. The history of those failures by government are consistently tragic and wrong. But what do you care? The big bad socialists like picking on the little guys. Precisely why you lost this last election. Will you idiots ever learn or are you doomed to continue making disastrous decisions ?

So glad you’re ready to show everyone how it’s done.
I’ll be watching.

 

[Bendintheriver]

already struggling restaurant goes out of business
already struggling poaster compares it to sears roebuck

Ern and hh, I am providing you an opportunity to educate yourself. We all know you don't care about the small businesses and the workers they employ, your government control over the private sector is what gives you people chubbies but you might attempt to practice a little empathy for those that lost jobs due to your socialist governments in rat infested states.
Having owned a small and successful business, I can tell you that if a government like the State of CA had forced an unacceptable wage increase on me, it would have been disastrous and would have cost 40 people I provided healthcare and a future, their livlihoods.
Paying some individual $20 per hour to load fries into a basket is not helping anyone.

Minimum Wage Hikes Are Leaving Casualties in their Wake - MinimumWage.com

Decades of economic research has documented how minimum wage hikes cause employment loss and business closures. In a year with a record number of wage hikes and historic inflationary increases, 2023 has seen mass business casualties, particularly for the restaurant industry, as a result of the activism for higher wage mandates.
In 2023, 89 states, cities, and counties raised their minimum wages. Eighty-three also raised their tipped wages for servers and bartenders.
A review of economic analyses spanning thirty years shows an “overwhelming majority” of studies find minimum wage hikes cause job loss, in part because affected establishments are forced to close. Another study published by Harvard Business School finds every $1 increase in the minimum wage increases the likelihood of business closure by 14 percent.
Areas debuting new wage hikes in 2023 were not immune. Media recaps of the outgoing year have one thing in common: rising costs are forcing restaurants and other businesses to shutter for good. See how these consequences played out in real time across the country.
California: The Golden State had the highest minimum wage in the country this year, with no tip credit allowance for employers of tipped staff.

• The Los Angeles Times dubbed 2023 https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2023-12-22/2023-la-restaurant-closings-los-angeles citing businesses were “kneecapped” by inflation, rising labor costs, union strikes, and other factors.
• Eater LA mourns a https://la.eater.com/2023/8/22/23840539/biggest-restaurant-closures-los-angeles-2023 marked by the loss of some of the city’s “most well-known dining establishments” to the epidemic.
• SF Gate called the state’s restaurant closure epidemic https://www.ocregister.com/2023/12/22/the-orange-county-restaurant-closures-of-2023-that-hit-the-hardest/ as “operating a restaurant in Southern California is becoming next to impossible.”
• The San Francisco Chronicle maintained that https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/bay-area-close-2023-18542587.php since 2022.
• The Orange County Register called the Golden State https://www.ocregister.com/2023/12/22/the-orange-county-restaurant-closures-of-2023-that-hit-the-hardest/ due to a slew of burdensome real estate prices, permitting regulations, and ever-increasing labor costs.
• CBS Sacramento blames “high cost of food, labor” for restaurant closures that occurred this year, calling the new statewide wage hike up to $16 per hour https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/high-cost-of-food-labor-shutters-some-local-restaurants-ahead-of-new-year/ for impacted businesses. Restaurant owners say “operational costs are out of control,” which have actually caused constant turnover due to cost cutting measures to try to adapt to cost increases.

Seattle: Seattle had one of the highest local minimum wages in the country this year, and

• Eater Seattle maintains that though the city has generally recovered from pandemic lockdowns, the restaurant industry https://www.denverpost.com/2023/12/20/denver-saddest-restaurant-closures-2023-sams-piccolo-tepehuan/ primarily citing pressures from rising food and labor costs. One operator said the staffing issues had caused “a tremendous strain”. Eater staff and others note that in looking ahead to 2024, many local restaurants https://seattle.eater.com/2023/12/29/24018348/how-should-the-seattle-restaurant-industry-evolve-in-2024 despite increases in menu prices.
• The Seattle Times documents https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/9-seattle-restaurants-have-closed-since-our-last-count/, documenting https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/5-more-seattle-restaurant-and-bar-closures-with-one-instagram-favorite-reopening-soon/ https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/7-recent-seattle-restaurant-closures-but-with-good-news-too/ https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/10-latest-seattle-restaurant-closures-with-best-wishes-to-a-local-legend/ restaurant closures in the city this year.

 

[RaceBannon]

All Ern and H care about is the D

 

[HHusky]

Pretending a lot of people are going to choose restaurant work at even a $20 minimum wage in Seattle is where this outrage gets awfully silly. People fled the industry in droves during the pandemic.

 

[WestlinnDuck]

You spelled "fled" wrong. Try "left because they were laid off due to democrats closing restaurants and then paying the workers more than they were making if they went back to work".
It's like leftard morons forget what they did only a few years ago.

 

[HHusky]

You spelled "fled" wrong. Try "left because they were laid off due to democrats closing restaurants and then paying the workers more than they were making if they went back to work".
It's like leftard morons forget what they did only a few years ago.

So you agree with me—which must be painful—but object to the workers taking the opportunity to improve their lot. And yes, most people would not choose to work in food service if all things were equal. Those who fled are working in other industries; they didn’t exit the workforce.
You’re quite the champion of the working man, Gasbag.

 

[WestlinnDuck]

Quite the socialist dazzler. Paying people who were laid off more than they were making while working. Labor participation rate is still below March 2020. I remember when good dems like you and Bill Clinton opposed a time limit on welfare forcing dead beats to get jobs. Quite the champion of welfare queens and kings dazzler. Go run an internet search on Social Security Disability Insurance attorneys.

 

[Bendintheriver]

Again, notice how hh got his ass kicked with facts and tried to steer the conversation in another direction.

 

[HHusky]

Quite the socialist dazzler. Paying people who were laid off more than they were making while working. Labor participation rate is still below March 2020. I remember when good dems like you and Bill Clinton opposed a time limit on welfare forcing dead beats to get jobs. Quite the champion of welfare queens and kings dazzler. Go run an internet search on Social Security Disability Insurance attorneys.

The entire Baby Boom generation is over 60 now, Gasbag. What the fuck did you think that was going to do to the labor force participation rate?
Meanwhile, the youngsters who escaped food service are still working. The labor force participation rate for 25 to 54 year olds hasn’t been as high as it is now since 2007.

 

[Bendintheriver]

Quite the socialist dazzler. Paying people who were laid off more than they were making while working. Labor participation rate is still below March 2020. I remember when good dems like you and Bill Clinton opposed a time limit on welfare forcing dead beats to get jobs. Quite the champion of welfare queens and kings dazzler. Go run an internet search on Social Security Disability Insurance attorneys.

The entire Baby Boom generation is over 60 now, Gasbag. What the fuck did you think that was going to do to the labor force participation rate?
Meanwhile, the youngsters who escaped food service are still working. The labor force participation rate for 25 to 54 year olds hasn’t been as high as it is now since 2007.

 

[Sledog]

Quite the socialist dazzler. Paying people who were laid off more than they were making while working. Labor participation rate is still below March 2020. I remember when good dems like you and Bill Clinton opposed a time limit on welfare forcing dead beats to get jobs. Quite the champion of welfare queens and kings dazzler. Go run an internet search on Social Security Disability Insurance attorneys.

The entire Baby Boom generation is over 60 now, Gasbag. What the fuck did you think that was going to do to the labor force participation rate?
Meanwhile, the youngsters who escaped food service are still working. The labor force participation rate for 25 to 54 year olds hasn’t been as high as it is now since 2007.

 

[HHusky]

Quite the socialist dazzler. Paying people who were laid off more than they were making while working. Labor participation rate is still below March 2020. I remember when good dems like you and Bill Clinton opposed a time limit on welfare forcing dead beats to get jobs. Quite the champion of welfare queens and kings dazzler. Go run an internet search on Social Security Disability Insurance attorneys.

The entire Baby Boom generation is over 60 now, Gasbag. What the fuck did you think that was going to do to the labor force participation rate?
Meanwhile, the youngsters who escaped food service are still working. The labor force participation rate for 25 to 54 year olds hasn’t been as high as it is now since 2007.

You've got total control. Who said otherwise?
This should really work out great!
No more excuses from you. Get to work!