Do You Agree With Letter-Writer

[discocrisco01]

Letter Write States

"Initiative 1433 would raise the state minimum wage to $13.50 an hour and require paid sick leave for all employees.

This is a feel-good measure that will hurt lower-income workers by preventing some from getting hired.

Employers who have to pay more for labor will raise prices, cut employee benefits, hire fewer workers, or will automate jobs when higher human costs make machines a cost-effective option. Think self-checkout machines at the supermarket.

The real path for workers to get ahead is to make themselves worth $20, $30, or $50 an hour by going to school, learning something of value to this economy, and working hard to gain job experience and skills.

But a worker without the skills or experience to produce $13.50 an hour of value to an employer simply won’t get the job.

How much does $13.50 an hour add up to, multiplied by zero hours?

Initiative 143"

$13.50 an hour? That is low especially in high-cost Seattle Area. Maybe, in rural Washington (let's say a gas station paying somebody minimum wage in Walla-Walla, WA) but for the same gas station clerk in Federal Way, WA. Hmmm?

I think the letter writer needs understand the cost of living before making such remarks.

http://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/letter-feel-good-wage-measure-will-impede-hiring/

[pkdu]

1. This twat has a history of writing right-wing crap in LTE...here is just one other example

A letter writer says that she finds it “ironic” than a man should question abortion, because a man cannot have babies.

Anyone who has been a fetus is entitled to an opinion on the subject of abortion. I was born just after Roe v. Wade made abortion legal. I am grateful my mom didn’t kill me in the womb, let alone donate my organs to research. I happen to think that she should not have had that choice.

As to Planned Parenthood providing services other than abortion, I’m as little moved by that as I would have been to be told that Nazis, although they exterminated Jews, also made the trains run on time. So what?

Planned Parenthood is in the business of abortion. It couches abortion’s gruesome reality in clinical terms to persuade mothers that abortion is something less than the killing of their own children. Everything else Planned Parenthood does pales in comparison to this horror.

No government money should go to any part of this deadly and inhumane organization.

I’m a man and a former fetus. That’s my opinion. I’m entitled to it, uterus or not.

Karl Schweizer

Lake Stevens

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

2. No

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[JI7]

3. they will always automate jobs if possible and if it's cheaper

That's why the threats to do so are always stupid . If they could save money dOing do they would already be doing it.

Even self checkout usually needs an actual person standing by and assisting.

[treestar]

6. the market near me

actually took out the self checkers, which makes me wonder if they were somehow more expensive overall.

[JI7]

7. it can also make it easier to steal so that's another cost

[treestar]

8. good point

[jmowreader]

9. I do not agree

There's a tipping point we're about to hit - where a high enough percentage of the population is degreed that the employer class can demand degrees for even the worst jobs. What will a culinary arts degree mean if you need one to cook french fries at Burger King?