Chicago inacts Living Wage ordinance

[Lancer]

If the masta doesn't provide you with enough cornbread, get two mastas!

[Sandman]

The minimum wage is better than welfare in almost every way.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Sandman
The minimum wage is better than welfare in almost every way.

In a lessor of two evils way, yes.

[molly bloom]

Can a Brit point out to two diametrically politically opposed Yanks that it's 'precedes' ?

[Lancer]

No, that would be very wrong.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Arrian
Now, now. You're not really any fun when you act all arrogant.

I never said anything about my own abilities. I just asked a pretty general question.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


And they already PAY for those public resources! What, you want to penalize them because you don't think the public representatives got 'enough'?

You are obviously missing the point here.

The public controls a very lucrative and valuable resource. They would simply be charging the owners of sports franchises more to use those resources in order to generate more revenue to fund education and/or other programs. It's simple supply and demand Imran.

Why you are perceiving it as a form of punishment is beyond me. You seem to think the owners of sports franchises have some sort of sense of entitlement to use the public's resources. They don't. The public can decide to allocate those resources as it sees fit.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe


In a lessor of two evils way, yes.

Both help people, so conservatives think they're evil.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by hexagonian
If a job isn't providing enough money for you, do what I do...work 2 jobs.

Because the point is to work less and get paid more.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Arrian
Living Wage - well intentioned... but I don't think it's the answer.

Well-intentioned but wrong ideas we all know what road those pave.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Kidicious
Because the point is to work less and get paid more.

Then fire most of the cashiers and replace them with machines already, dammit.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Then fire most of the cashiers and replace them with machines already, dammit.

Give me control of the machines and I will.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Sandman
The minimum wage is better than welfare in almost every way.

Except that it's an ass-backwards economic policy. It removes the entry-level jobs on the very low end of the scale, jobs that are actually critical to helping the people who would otherwise be on welfare. Without those entry-level jobs people can't get the basic job skills necessary to enter the workforce and make a living wage through their own productivity.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Sava


You are obviously missing the point here.

The public controls a very lucrative and valuable resource. They would simply be charging the owners of sports franchises more to use those resources in order to generate more revenue to fund education and/or other programs. It's simple supply and demand Imran.

Why you are perceiving it as a form of punishment is beyond me. You seem to think the owners of sports franchises have some sort of sense of entitlement to use the public's resources. They don't. The public can decide to allocate those resources as it sees fit.

Because the public has ALREADY charged the owners the price of that resource. Duh! It's a penalty because for most of these 'public resources' you will have to go back and charge a far higher rate to get them to 'fund education'. Unless you are willing to wait out their long running leases (if the teams haven't already bought the stadiums out).

And if you charge stations that show sports more for use of airwaves that those that don't, how is that not a penalty? Charging more for use of the same resource at the same time is always considered a penalty!

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Except that it's an ass-backwards economic policy. It removes the entry-level jobs on the very low end of the scale, jobs that are actually critical to helping the people who would otherwise be on welfare. Without those entry-level jobs people can't get the basic job skills necessary to enter the workforce and make a living wage through their own productivity.

Paid training is a lot better for creating skills.