Quote:AND ONE MORE THING.   I've noticed some people posting here get their information from websites that have an obvious agenda, and whatever that website prints, they just swallow it hole without any degree of skepticism.  

For everyone's information, it's not just "American Thinker" that's talking about it.

 

 

http://www.inquisitr.com/1924418/seattle...-business/

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/14/se...pproaches/

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/03/14/res...age-looms/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/...imum-wage/

 

Seattle businesses are fighting back: 

 

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/20...-wage.html

http://kuow.org/post/why-franchise-owner...nimum-wage

http://www.kplu.org/post/franchise-organ...out-unfair

 

 

Here's an interesting comment that I found on one of the sites:

 

"Maybe if we didn't expect to pay $5 for a footlong sandwich that we paid $5 for 25+ years ago then this wouldn't be a problem. $0.99 menus don't make you scratch your head? Cheaper prices to a certain degree are better but US consumers quest for the cheapest price comes with serious social costs. Minimum wage earners don't pay much in federal tax (thereby reducing government tax collections) that pay for healthcare, roads, defense, education, etc. They rely on social services more as a result which further drives up the cost of social programs. They can't purchase homes or goods that would normally help the economy grow (they're effectively left out of the economy beyond basic necessities). Its time we expected to pay more for certain things than we do and at the same time improve wage growth. Any economist will tell you that the middle class has fallen behind in terms of real wage growth and the poorer have gotten poorer despite an economy that is several times larger than it was 30 years ago. Ask yourself where that money has gone."

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