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Old 02-04-2015, 08:19 AM   #1
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S. F. bookstore closes. Why? Minimum wages.

http://freebeacon.com/blog/if-you-su...te-bookstores/

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Now, book stores are a dying breed in general thanks to stiff competition (read: low prices) from Amazon, the digitization of books, and the revitalization of urban centers, which has caused rents to climb in recent years. They’re operating on pretty tight budgets as it is. So what happens to a book store when, on top of genuine market pressures, the government foists a costly—and entirely artificial—mandate on it?

Gee, you’ll never guess:
Liberals won't care any ways -- they don't read.
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Old 02-04-2015, 09:21 AM   #2
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Liberals won't care any ways -- they don't read.
That's not entirely true. I'm sure community organizers pass out plenty of reading material to the political illiterates to read.
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Old 02-04-2015, 09:46 AM   #3
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Did mopo approve this?
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Old 02-04-2015, 10:18 AM   #4
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Liberals won't care any ways -- they don't read.
They just read different stuff than you do.
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Old 02-04-2015, 10:22 AM   #5
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I wonder how many other industries are not compatible with $15 / hr labor.
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Old 02-04-2015, 10:31 AM   #6
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Anyone who checks out Amazon's book prices would have to wonder how the bookstores have managed to hold on for as long as they have.
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Old 02-04-2015, 10:34 AM   #7
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Here's a quote from the bookstore's owner:

“Overall I think [the minimum wage increase] may be very good for San Francisco,” said Beatts. “We’re a subset of a subset that are having negative effects from this.”

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Old 02-04-2015, 10:48 AM   #8
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This is just going to decreased the number of jobs available, and turn $15 into that $8.25 buys today. For San Franciscans, and everywhere this happens.
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Old 02-04-2015, 10:52 AM   #9
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Of course, I understand that the living expenses are already outrageous in San Francisco, and can understand how anyone affords the cost of housing there, let alone on a non-professional income.
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Old 02-04-2015, 11:28 AM   #10
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we should get rid of minimum wage.
And liberals.
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Old 02-04-2015, 11:29 AM   #11
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This is just going to decreased the number of jobs available, and turn $15 into that $8.25 buys today. For San Franciscans, and everywhere this happens.
This is the part the do-gooders don't understand. The owner of the book store said he also runs a cafe next door. He said he had to close the book store because the market would not let him increase prices on books, and that he can keep the cafe open because he can increase prices there.

I would bet that folks in cities like SF and Seattle will soon begin seeing touch screen ordering at fast food restaurants, and won't have a clue why.
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Old 02-04-2015, 11:36 AM   #12
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That certainly looks like a nice, balanced, media source
from which to obtain an article. Nice touch with the Nazis.

How quickly they seem to forget that those men were
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Old 02-04-2015, 11:37 AM   #13
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The herd has it too good.
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Old 02-04-2015, 11:40 AM   #14
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That certainly looks like a nice, balanced, media source
from which to obtain an article. Nice touch with the Nazis.

How quickly they seem to forget that those men were
as Right as Right can be.
Here's another source for those too lazy, ignorant or whatever to find another on there own:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/minimu...213700882.html
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This is the part the do-gooders don't understand. The owner of the book store said he also runs a cafe next door. He said he had to close the book store because the market would not let him increase prices on books, and that he can keep the cafe open because he can increase prices there.

I would bet that folks in cities like SF and Seattle will soon begin seeing touch screen ordering at fast food restaurants, and won't have a clue why.
I remember when Reagan kept the minimum wage at $3.25 an hour throughout his presidency...because of similar concerns. It didn't really pan out that way...
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