Minimum wage increase and Obamacare killing off the Seattle Housing and Resource Effort. No matter how many times it’s tried, an increase in gov’t mandated social experiments always hurts those who provide and those who receive social services from outside the scope of government, be they Church organizations or lefty NGO’s
MOVE TOWARD $15/HR WAGES AND INCREASE IN PAYABLE WORK HOURS: Believe it or not, SHARE staff–who work hard for subsistence wages–were beneficiaries of this excellent community mandate. This year we must raise our wages to $12/hour AND we took an organizational decision to increase the payable number of work hours (to 38, from 30). This, coupled with increase health care costs, represents an additional $70,000 to SHARE. (Note, the City did cover the basic dollar-an-hour increase in our 2016 contracts, and we’re grateful for that. We still have more than $40,000 to raise, though!)
“Two of our three Tent Cities have very large fundraising burdens every year—more than $150,000 for the two, combined. They’ve struggled to raise these funds each year, but are way behind in covering their own costs.”
Their own costs of the fund raising exceeded the target, or the target does not match the total cost… Failure has many causes hidden in that statement…. they didn’t raise enough MONEY
Why don’t you Seattle idiots hit up your next door neighbors for the needed money? They obviously aren’t giving what you think they should. Another suggestion is to place a surcharge on ALL public worker salaries and double that for all political employees. These fine upstanding citizens won’t complain. After all, having you pay this much more make them feel good. Just think how much better they would feel if you volunteered them to pay also. Or you could have air dancing block parties complete with feathers and tar.
The government doesn’t have the right to set minimum wages since your time and labour don’t belong to the government.
If only that were true. Top down governments (of which there are more and more every single day) believe in fact that your time AND labour DO belong to them. And you thought slavery was dead.
Government has the power to regulate business through licensing and labour law work standards.
It considers setting minimum wages as a labour standard that the employer has to meet or the government can fine the employer or revoke the business license.
A US Congressional Budget Office study concluded, for every two people who benefit from a minimum wage law, one is put out of work.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44995
The government assumes the right, which it doesn’t have. However, it doesn’t have the ability to enforce it as people go cash.
Good.
Starve these organizations of cash, make it more expensive for them to operate. Idiots will elect politicians to raise taxes and hand it over to them until it hurts, but it’s gotta hurt a lot before people learn, and the faster the better.
“Do-gooder” organizations like this exploit people who can’t get jobs because the economy sucks or illegals take the jobs etc. It gives arrogant socialist jerks a purpose in life when they can play the hero and give a hand up to the people they look down upon.
Hence the talk of a “cashless” society.
yup, and then some one may “invent” and non-governmental currency, oh wait, what is bitcom:-)))
Delusions of competency.
We are living the dying phase of Kleptocracy.
Stealing and lying are the government standard.
Every attempt to control the few productive people still operating within the “official economy”, has unintended consequences,which drive more people to stop producing anything government knows how to steal.
Cashless society is coming, because the current unit of exchange is being destroyed by government.
Traders will adopt a new one as needed.Litres of gasoline might be the next standard unit.
The final stages will feature such beauties as, compulsory government service.
A tax on everything.(Also known as a carbon tax)
Bureaucratic “control” of the economy.Money poured into welfare programmes will be now called investing in infrastructure.
Same result, every spring;”productivity in Canada is falling”
I don’t think it would be hard to make a solid, logical argument that our constitutional (and god given) right to freedom of association is being violated by minimum wage laws. Of course the fact that it was an iron clad case would make no difference to our supreme court, but it would be a fun exercise.
The government doesn’t have the right. It has the authority.
And in democracies, whatever authority isn’t delegated to government by their electorates, the governments will try to assume or usurp.
There was a time when the Catholic Church provided all the social services for a tithe
Which, if my understanding is correct, was one hell of a lot less than we pay to thieving governments.
Social justice killing social justice. Gotta love it.
#IDontCareAboutSelfInflectedInjuries
Somewhat OT, but related.
Start here….(meme):
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pay-like-youre-hiring-your-own-daughter-merit-manhood-cabrera
End here….(reality):
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender-pay-gap-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/
When I was working for LESS than minimum wage, pumping gas at age 17 … less than minimum wage because my employer was not obligated by law to pay minimum wage if I worked less than a 40 hour workweek. Back then, I didn’t look at minimum wage as a LIVING wage … nobody did. But now, minimum wage has become a “living wage” for too many workers. And government is to blame. All our middle class manufacturing jobs have been exported to China (and Canada ;)). And a torrential flood of illegals have displaced the American middle class.
If governments will compel small businesses to pay minimum wages will they also mandate minimum hourly earnings for those businesses? If not, why not? Lib supporters have an answer?
Had to use SHARE resources for a period of time due to a debilitating illness and burning of resources. SHARE is an unprofessional organization that offers no reasonable path to people looking to escape homelessness. No job or program information and they require up to 35 hrs of unpaid work a week at some of their facilities to have a shared room for the night, getting evicted at 6:30 AM daily for most facilities. This time constraint and draconian rules which end up barring people that show up 15 min late due to a job etc for mandatory 2-3X a week meetings says all you need to know about this organization which is just a warehousing scam. The leaders and founders of SHARE are mostly ex cons who continue to run this organization under prison like rules.
Also, for all the people squawking about a $15 per hr minimum wage, the average rents in Seattle run from about $800 on up, minus utilities. Let’s see: add in Health insurance costs etc and you’re just getting by. Do the math. Those squawking about this paltry sum are just looking to exploit others.