In response to the $15 per hour minimum wage mandate, the first thing he sought to do was cut hours:
"He runs a tight operation already, he says.
Comix Experience is open ten hours a day, seven days a week, with
usually just one employee at each store at a time. It’s not viable to
cut hours, he says, because his slowest hours are in the middle of the
day."
This fool (and all fools like him who want government to run the economy) doesn't seem to see the stupidity in all of this. The important thing is not how much someone earns per hour but what they earn per day. If hours could be cut, that might help the store owner out but it would not help the employee at all who would now have to work a few hours in one place and then go someplace else and work the rest of the day there. That is totally inefficient by any standard. So this whole idea of "let's make everyone's lives better by forcing greedy business owners to overpay their employees" simply does not work. If the wage isn't high enough, the employee should look else where.
The next thing he sought to do in response to the $15 per hour minimum wage mandate was to raise prices:
"... he can’t raise prices, because comic books and graphic novels
have their retail prices printed on the cover."
Well I call bullshit to this reasoning. All you need to do is put up a sign that says "actual price for comic books is 1.5x that of cover price". Problem solved. But still I assert that the owner is correct: he can't raise prices. Why? Because dweebs who read comic books don't have good jobs and thus they can't afford to spend very much on such trivial purchases. Said differently, he can't raise prices because comic books don't have much economic value.
Now here's the part that always leaves me bewildered and it is true across all liberal: the shock about what their stupid ideas will end up costing them personally:
"Hibbs says that the $15-an-hour minimum wage will require a staggering $80,000 in extra revenue annually. “I was appalled!” he says. “My jaw dropped. Eighty-thousand a year! I didn’t know that. I thought we were talking a small amount of money, something I could absorb.”
Were are going to see a LOT more of this kind of this as federal, state and local governments become less and less capable of taking on debt in order to fund consumption. More taxes, more payment mandates for the producers. More complaints by liberal fools who drive all of this crap down the throat of society.
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