The minimum wage in Seattle is $16 an hour. The city councils mandate of +$4 for hazard pay pushes it to $20/hr. These grocery stores operate on tight margins. These Communist are essentially mandating food deserts.
“Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.”
― Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
The minimum wage in Seattle is $16 an hour. The city councils mandate of +$4 for hazard pay pushes it to $20/hr. These grocery stores operate on tight margins. These Communist are essentially mandating food deserts.
“Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.” ― Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy