Re: Chicago Approves $13 Minimum-Wage Plan Amid National Debate
he learned it from you
he learned it from you
I feel its great that you and Que can always find a way to jerk each other off, but tell me again how following the law is the same as enforcing it.
Because you don't have a firm grasp on anything you don't believe, you should consider that it's just your perception of how I argue.I presume you dislike it when someone adopts your method of argument.
Ok, as long as its obvious that, between the two of us, I'm not unique.Oh I understand very well that you change the argument to fit your perception.
Ok, as long as its obvious that, between the two of us, I'm not unique.
1st of all, I'm the funniest person you know.Dude, by this point you should have much more of a sense of humor, since you have yet to prove how raising the minimum wage will lead to the apocalyptic down fall of the American economy you predicted.
"black" population rate HAS
to be under five percent..
and white population rate,
must be over fifty percent...
amerikkkan way yo!!
How do you guy think this will effect small business especially small black business that often lack the currency to compete vs larger business who clients are more and often have more money to supliment higher wages.
I say $500,000 in annual dollar volume is not too small.The Act applies to enterprises with employees who engage in interstate commerce, produce goods for interstate commerce, or handle, sell, or work on goods or materials that have been moved in or produced for interstate commerce. For most firms, a test of not less than $500,000 in annual dollar volume of business applies (i.e., the Act does not cover enterprises with less than this amount of business).
However, the Act does cover the following regardless of their dollar volume of business: hospitals; institutions primarily engaged in the care of the sick, aged, mentally ill, or disabled who reside on the premises; schools for children who are mentally or physically disabled or gifted; preschools, elementary and secondary schools, and institutions of higher education; and federal, state, and local government agencies.
Employees of firms that do not meet the $500,000 annual dollar volume test may be covered in any workweek when they are individually engaged in interstate commerce, the production of goods for interstate commerce, or an activity that is closely related and directly essential to the production of such goods.
So the weak argument that the minimum wage is going to hurt small businesses and or "Black" businesses is repeated again and again by people who seem to have a problem with poor people getting paid more and could give a damn about the rich getting more and more.The following are examples of employees exempt from both the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements:
- Executive, administrative, and professional employees (including teachers and academic administrative personnel in elementary and secondary schools), outside sales employees, and certain skilled computer professionals (as defined in the Department of Labor's regulations) 1
- Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments
- Employees of certain small newspapers and switchboard operators of small telephone companies
- Seamen employed on foreign vessels
- Employees engaged in fishing operations
- Employees engaged in newspaper delivery
- Farm workers employed on small farms (i.e., those that used less than 500 "man‑days" of farm labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year)
- Casual babysitters and persons employed as companions to the elderly or infirm
The following are examples of employees exempt from the overtime pay requirements only:
- Certain commissioned employees of retail or service establishments
- Auto, truck, trailer, farm implement, boat, or aircraft salespersons employed by non‑manufacturing establishments primarily engaged in selling these items to ultimate purchasers
- Auto, truck, or farm implement parts‑clerks and mechanics employed by non-manufacturing establishments primarily engaged in selling these items to ultimate purchasers
- Railroad and air carrier employees, taxi drivers, certain employees of motor carriers, seamen on American vessels, and local delivery employees paid on approved trip rate plans
- Announcers, news editors, and chief engineers of certain non‑metropolitan broadcasting stations
- Domestic service workers who reside in their employers' residences
- Employees of motion picture theaters
- Farmworkers
I'm talking about a little mom's and pops business such as a soil food restaurant. Just envision that your the owner of one of these smaller business, especially one that lacks the purchase power of a big busines fast food chain, Plud, in order to keep prices on yourvmenue competitive your forced to scale back your labor population, now how can you envision keeping prices the same while absorbing the blow of increased salary for most of your employees. Especially with increased taxes, higher new health coverage laws and all of this coming after you was barely getting by with the skin of your teeth.It hasn't effected small business, Black or otherwise and it will not.
First off, what do you define as "small business"?
There is a specific definition of what a "small business" is, as related to the minimum wage law. This term is just not a talking point to raise arbitrary arguments based on ideological opposition to minimum wage requirements.
source: United States Department of Labor
I say $500,000 in annual dollar volume is not too small.
Also, there are a whole lot of workers not covered by the minimum wage law. personally, I think they should be covered.
Many restaurant workers that work for tips (thanks to Herman Cain and the restaurant lobby), certain home care workers, so called domestic workers (thanks to the racist in the south during the 1930s who knew that most domestic workers , baby sitters, maids, cooks, etc were Black folk and didn't want them to have any kind of economic independence, self control and respect.
source: United States Department of Labor
So the weak argument that the minimum wage is going to hurt small businesses and or "Black" businesses is repeated again and again by people who seem to have a problem with poor people getting paid more and could give a damn about the rich getting more and more.
I say if you can't pay your employees a decent wage, you are a lousy business person anyway and looking for an excuse other than your ineptitude as to why you can't make a business work.
I'm talking about a little mom's and pops business such as a soil food restaurant. Just envision that your the owner of one of these smaller business, especially one that lacks the purchase power of a big busines fast food chain, Plud, in order to keep prices on yourvmenue competitive your forced to scale back your labor population, now how can you envision keeping prices the same while absorbing the blow of increased salary for most of your employees. Especially with increased taxes, higher new health coverage laws and all of this coming after you was barely getting by with the skin of your teeth.
Today most complain how black business are often way too expensive and you get lower services, how exactly will higher min wages alone supposed to help?
Alone at best a raise in min wages is nothing more than a stop gap measure, I say if you really want to help the poor we must do more things to help small businesses and more to help them compete in the mid level jobs while getting out the dying min wage market..To me it's almost like shoe makers demanding higher wages, within the midst of the invention on the car. Wouldnt it be wiser to train them to become car mechanics instead?
For most firms, a test of not less than $500,000 in annual dollar volume of business applies (i.e., the Act does not cover enterprises with less than this amount of business).
Thats a good thing for starters but instead of giving higher currency only to the poor where they would most likely go off and spend the shit back to the white man, I'd rather some of the money be spent on the youth, schools and programs to make them competitive in tomorrows shrinking job market.For most firms, a test of not less than $500,000 in annual dollar volume of business applies (i.e., the Act does not cover enterprises with less than this amount of business).
Thats a good thing for starters but instead of giving higher currency only to the poor where they would most likely go off and spend the shit back to the white man, I'd rather some of the money be spent on the youth, schools and programs to make them competitive in tomorrows shrinking job market.
Thats a good thing for starters but instead of giving higher currency only to the poor where they would most likely go off and spend the shit back to the white man, I'd rather some of the money be spent on the youth, schools and programs to make them competitive in tomorrows shrinking job market.
poor where they would most likely go off and spend the shit back to the white man
Don't understand this.
First your beef is that the rise in minimum wage is going to force a business in to spending money where it doesn't want, then you say that the rise in minimum wage will allow the so called poor to spend money where you don't want.
Don't you see dichotomy of your statement?
This Ayn Rand/libertarian idea that the so called poor and workers have little or no value has been drummed in to many young people's heads since the Reagan era and has continued on steroids since the GW era.
Evidently America has become a society made only to serve the interests of the rich and business owners.
Wrong I don't have beefs, I raise arguments, and my argument was that minimum wage alone is not enough to beat poverty... You have not presented one bit of evidence to prove the contrary... What you have listed I said is a good start, but still just a drop in the bucket vs the real war on poverty..