Here's the interesting part though. In Prince Georges County, Six Flags will be EXEMPT. Delegate Mike McDermott asked that seasonal workers in Ocean City be exempt, (waiter/waitresses/bartenders) and it was denied.
I also learned that Seniors will NOT be exempt either. This means those people over 62 years old will more than likely be reducing their hours because of penalties. Go figure, O'Malley has figured a way to create more part time jobs and is driving our seniors out of work.
I sure do hope the people of Wicomico & Worcester County wake up and vote Republican in the upcoming elections because the Eastern Shore's special needs are being ignored.
These POS are making exemptions? WTF. Shameless hacks.
ReplyDeleteFunny twist on the senior issue.
ReplyDeleteThey will not need to work so many hours to make the same amount of money. I do not find that to be a negative.
This will open up hours for other workers to pick up. I do not find that to be a negative.
Wait staff is always excluded.
OC hires foreigners and get a tax break.
The only negative is government officials telling the people what they are going to do and how to do it.
ReplyDeleteSix Flags should NOT get a break.
ReplyDeleteThis will translate into more sales and income for everyone in business. Win Win
ReplyDelete"This will translate into more sales and income for everyone in business. Win Win"
ReplyDeleteWrong. It will result in more unemployment. At this point, I hope it does pass. The lower classes vote for the Democrat trash- they deserve to lose their jobs. Good. Let em starve.
It is my understanding that many union contracts are tied to the minimum wage. If the MW goes up so does their pay and so does the pay out to the marxist
ReplyDeleteEverything eventually passes.Did anyone doubt that this would?
ReplyDeleteThe blame for the minimum wage increase lies squarely with the Federal Reserve Bank. They have inflated the money supply and now the inflation chickens are coming home to roost.
ReplyDelete12:59-It a lose lose situation-no if's, and's or but's about it. Don't believe the democrats and their propaganda (lies.) By no one's stretch of the imagination is this increase going to give anyone anymore disposable income to spend thereby helping the economy as liar omally likes to say. Many of these low wage earners also receive atleast one mostly more from of government assistance. All this is going to do is lower what they get in benefits, so any extra they are getting will now go to their rent, electric, etc. They are going to be in the same boat as before, not a thing gained. Where the gain will be is omally and the rest of the lying democrats being able to say they've lower the number of people on government subsidies. It's a big game with the democrats. They don't give one iota about people. Their constituents (except big doners) are peons to them. All they want is a platform to brag on come election time so they create these illusions and the uninformed fall for it hook line and sinker. The best anyone can do for themselves and their family is to vote out each and every democrat.
ReplyDelete2:07 But tax cuts are a better idea since it trickles down?
ReplyDelete2:07 - I will not vote for democrats but the system of voting we have is not the greatest. You don't have to prove you are who you say you are, just give them a name, an address and away you go to the voting booth. I think you should have to show ID, sign your paper ballot, put your fingerprint on it, then maybe, just maybe, things would change, but until that happens no matter how a person votes, the outcome always always seems to be Democrat.
ReplyDeleteFR: Delegate Mike McDermott
ReplyDeleteThis is going to result in jobs being lost. It will increase the employee costs by 38%. This cost will be recovered through increased costs for goods and services and by businesses eliminating full time or part time workers. This is a trickle up issue as wages for those making $100K will receive raises just like those on the bottom. If the democrats and unions wanted to truly help those at the bottom of the scale, we could increase and expand the Earned Income Credit. As it sits right now, those earning the current minimum wage actually earn around $10-$12 per hour once the EIC is applied to wages. By expanding this section of taxing code, we would not punish our business communities and would not see wholesale change in the scale of wages at a time when our economy is struggling to simply get by. The EIC is not a "sexy" observable means of giving folks a leg up; and, in an election year, those in power want to look like the saviors.
I did make an effort, based upon their own logic, to exempt seasonal workers from these requirements, but they did not like the comparison. You can do the democrat math: Protecting 6-Flags in PG County=Good...Protecting other seasonal businesses in other counties=Bad.
Thanks for paying attention to what is going on in the MGA.
12:28 Well, I will cut the older workers, because they're less effective, when it comes to production. Then, I will fire 1/3 of the workforce, and give the remainder a few extra hours. I now sit at the same payroll, while releasing 25 people out to unemployment. Yeah, win win.
ReplyDeleteWages for unskilled labor are low in this country because we are inundated with illegal aliens who are willing to work for dirt. Your friends the democrats are instrumental in seeing to it that the borders are not enforced. They offer taxpayer-funded benefits and sanctuary to illegals as further enticement. Now these same democrats want to raise MW because 'they care about working people'. What an absolute farce.
ReplyDeleteDoes congress ever look at history especially Germany after world war one where they had so much inflation and it took a wheel barrel of money for a loaf of bread.
ReplyDeleteStop bashing the PG county and six flags. Six flags agreed to change the name to 7 Flags, which will be the red flag of mother russia!
ReplyDeleteThose who advocate an increase in the minimum wage argue that it would be an effective antipoverty policy and often cite that a full-time worker earning minimum wage makes $15,080 per year, below the federal poverty line for a family of two. However, the minimum wage assists very few families in poverty today.
ReplyDeleteAn analysis of data from the 2012 Current Population Survey (CPS) March Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement, which reports information from 2011, reveals that very few people earn the minimum wage. In 2011, 58.9 percent of all wage and salary workers were paid hourly rates. Of those, only 3.2 percent earned at or below the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. When looking at all wage and salary workers, minimum wage workers accounted for a mere 1.9 percent.
Looking specifically at how minimum wage relates to poverty, only 0.3 percent of people in families with incomes below the relevant 2011 federal poverty lines worked an hourly job and made at or below the minimum wage. The minimum wage does not help people in poverty who actually work. When examining the working poor, only 7.8 percent of all hourly-paid workers in poverty earn at or below the minimum wage (6.3 percent of all wage and salary workers in poverty).
In 2011, only 1.2 percent of people in families with incomes below the federal poverty threshold earned an hourly wage at or below $9 per hour and only 1.5 percent earned a wage at or below $10.10 per hour. Even among all those who work and are in poverty, only 28.5 percent earn at or below $9 per hour and 36.2 percent earn at or below $10.10 per hour. These figures suggest that increases in minimum wage to $9 and $10.10 not only would fail to assist almost 99 percent of all people in poverty, but they would also neglect the vast majority of people in poverty who are actually working.
Since so few working people in poverty actually earn at or near the federal minimum wage, very few would benefit from a minimum wage increase. Sabia and Burkhauser (2010) found no statistical evidence that the minimum wage increases between 2003 and 2007 affected state poverty rates. Only 15.5 percent of the net benefits from the federal minimum wage increase to $7.25 went to workers living in poverty. If the minimum wage were to increase to $9.50 per hour, only 10.5 percent of the net benefits would go to workers in poverty