Liberals will always be the loudest to complain when they are affected by their own mandates.

Today's proof point on my thesis that liberals will end up paying a price for their stupidity and then they will whine about it and want exceptions for themselves is found in this post by Mish.   In short, a comic book store operator is now having to up his labor payout to $15 per hour and he suddenly realizes how this is going to put him out of business.

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.”

Here we have a business owner who cannot do simple math before voting for wage increases that will affect all small business owners.  The first thought is to simply label the guy a moron but that is not exactly accurate.  He's not a moron per se, just liberal.  You see, liberals are genetically predisposed to believing in the "great society" concept.  In other words, they are used to voting for freebees which they do not have to directly pay for.  "Society" usually pays for all these handouts that they want.  So it's not that this guy could not do the math.  It's simply that it did not really click with him that he was going to be the one with a government gun stuck into his face with the guy on the other end saying "pay up or lose your business".

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.