Talk of the minimum wage is all the rage these days, what with six states having voted this month to hike theirs and the Democrats vowing to raise the $5.15-an-hour federal minimum as one of the first acts of their new Democratic Congress.
Then there is Kansas.
Kansas’ $2.65-an-hour minimum wage is now the lowest in the nation, with Kansas the only state to have a wage lower than the feds’ $5.15 (if you don’t count the U.S. Virgin Islands or the six states without minimum wages). True, Kansas’ embarrassing wage is mostly symbolic, because the state minimum does not apply to workers who come under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. Still, Kansas’ minimum wage certainly stands out from the crowd, as this map shows. While it may not be much of a welcome mat for potential workers, maybe it will signal businesses in the mood to relocate or expand that Kansas is their kind of low-cost state. Or maybe state lawmakers will finally follow the lead of state Rep. Ted Powers, R-Mulvane, by doing the right thing and raising it.
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Oh, Kansas $2.65 workers are just stupid peasants. Who cares?
I care, which is why I pay cash tips. Vaughn Tolle has criticized this, saying employers get punished by the IRS. If they are paying $2.65, they SHOULD be punished. But in actuality they are not. I love giving good servers good tips. During the holiday season I’m thinking they want to buy gifts for their families and friends. If I give them a 25% tip. when they show good attention to their customer, I am confident they will put that money back into our state and American economy.
I was a busboy. I was paid the national minimum wage plus some tips. Kansas restaurateuers who have a mindset of paying less may be part of the reason why Kansas doesn’t have a lot of really good restaurants.
Our new slogan, “Kansas, as close to slavery as you can get.”
I keep hearing how the poor restaurants cannot possibly raise the minimum wage to their employees; but yet I see every new restaurant build not one but several locations in Wichita.
If these restaurant companies cannot make any money on the current wages they pay – then how they are able to expand their locations and keep building their pretty new buildings?
If you doubt Wichita has a glut of restaurants – try to get into one of these restaurants at 7pm on any given night. The parking lots are full and usually a waiting line.
From Conceptual Guerilla http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/showthread.php?id=103
Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like social spending or our “safety net”. Why. Because when you’re unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you whatever they feel like – which is inevitably next to nothing. You see, they want you “over a barrel” and in a position to “work cheap or starve”.
Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. Why. These reforms undo all of their efforts to keep you “over a barrel”.
Cheap-labor conservatives like “free trade”, NAFTA, GATT, etc. Why. Because there is a huge supply of desperately poor people in the third world, who are “over a barrel”, and will work cheap.
Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman’s right to choose. Why. Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women “over a barrel”, forcing them to work cheap.
Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like unions. Why. Because when labor “sticks together”, wages go up. That’s why workers unionize. Seems workers don’t like being “over a barrel”.
Cheap-labor conservatives constantly bray about “morality”, “virtue”, “respect for authority”, “hard work” and other “values”. Why. So they can blame your being “over a barrel” on your own “immorality”, lack of “values” and “poor choices”.
Cheap-labor conservatives encourage racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. Why? Bigotry among wage earners distracts them, and keeps them from recognizing their common interests as wage earners.
Cheap labor conservatives are only today’s version of slave traders from yesteryear.
The tragedy here is that most cheap labor conservatives of today are also trying to pass themselves off as Christians. That leaves a bad taste in many people’s mouth and believe me, Jesus Christ, has nothing to do with the cheap labor conservatives agenda.
Every time I see something about the minim wage two things come to mind. First is that minim wage was started in 1938 at a quarter an hour, in order for minim wage today to have the same buying power as that 1938 quarter it would have to be $10.00 an hour. Second is that it is really a matter of the cart before the horse. The cost of living is so high that the wages need to go up to keep up a fair standard of living. Which bring prices up to make up for what ever lose of profit comes from raising the wages. So perhaps the real answer is to lower the cost of living. The profit margin would stay the same while the standard of living would increase.
Another reason that Kansas continues to be the laughing stock of the country. It’s backward ultra conservative politics has always come at the cost and burden of the blue collar and agricultural working people.
With the conversations basically revolving around servers at restaurants, “most” all of the big named restraunts that are popping up all over ARE required under FSLA to pay Federal minimum wage. The smaller, typically Mom and Pop restaurants, may not be required to pay Federal minimum wage based on the whole interstate commerce clause and annual dollar amounts.I don’t quite undertand the whole “I’ll pay you less (state wage) but if your tips don’t equal Federal minimum wage, I’ll cover the difference to make sure you are getting $5.15 an hour” concept and how that relates. Pretty much you rely on your tips for the majority of your wages, but you will never make more than Federal minimum.
CORRECTION to above post.. NEVER make LESS than federal minimum wage… sorry
http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/minwage.htm#who
Here’s an idea. If you don’t like the wage the job offers, don’t take it. It really is that simple. You don’t need Big Daddy to make it all better. Grow a backbone for God’s sake. Grow a skill. Stop putting your hand out.
Pablo, I did work as a waitress, and the big times to make money were only at the dinner rush and at the lunch rush. The rest of the time, we certainly did make under minimum wage, but our tips balanced it out. And they did make up the difference. However, you see a restaurant like McDonalds, their staff get paid regular wages, and they have the cheapest food too.
Tips are supposed to be for a job well done, not to make up for earnings. It’s a sham to think that more restaurants are going to come to Kansas just because they can have cheaper labor. Are other states lacking in restaurants? Didn’t think so.
Oh enema has all the answers! Yeah, it’s really that easy, just don’t take the job! IN rural Kansas I suspect this is why everything is dying, because all the jobs are minimum wage or barely above, and you really don’t HAVE much of a choice.
Fleetwood, not everybody is in a position to learn a “new” skill. Nor are they in a position to turn down a job. How about grow some compassion and remember that not all are as gifted as you claim to be and are stuck in some industry that cares nothing about their employees.
Every time there is a motion to raise the minimum wage level, we get the ranting, raving and beating of chests about how it’s going to ruin business. thing is, that never happens. Business keeps purring along making money. It should be a no-brainer to raise the wage, but then again, we’ll have to see just how many no-brains we have serving us in Topeka. I suspect quite a few.
Fleet enema?
I’d LIKE to put my hand out to stooge slap you you maroon.
Nice idea ya got there. Deal is? Well see all the employers got there first. SO they agree to ALL pay lousy wages.
This is just another mark of shame for the beknighted state of Kansas. What the low wage will draw MORE greedy employers? Oh yeah we need more of that. NOT!
You people are all about Gimme.pmom sez there is no choice. I say there is. It’s called moving.What should we raise the wage to? How about $25 per hour? Would that make everything OK? The sooner you stop asking the goverment for things, the sooner you will be better off.
Great post, MrC.
And Hotlips, like I told your pal KSGoofNut, your answer to the poor is join the PGA tour . . .
You tough talkers couldn’t endure a month of what the poor go through every year after year–working the third shift, working two crappy jobs, having the car break down and no way to get to work, having gas prices go up and that means no money for baby food.
You totally don’t get it.
I do get it. I have been there, but asking the goverment for a hand out is not the way to go. Sometimes people make the wrong choices and then they wonder why everything sucks. How about that gal in the paper yesterday waiting in line for 9 hours for a free Turkey dinner. Maybe she could have been at a job interview instead.
Hotwood sez, “the sooner you stop asking the government for things, the sooner you will be better off.”
We’ve had a test of your plan. In 1929 an unregulated stock market crashed and sent the country into a long depression. Hoover did nothing.
How’d that work out?
We’ve also had a test of our plan in Western Europe. More gov’t regulations mean more wealth equality, more unionization, health care for all, and a higher standard of living for everyone (except perhaps the extremely wealthy who are taxed more heavily).
It’s just a difference of how you view your society–our view: one in which everyone is valued and respected, one in which everyone is given credit and responsibility for the well being of all OR your view: law of the jungle, eat or be eaten, die in the street for all I care, as long as I’m well-off, I’m happy and screw you.
It’s all about the wealth equality with you people isn’t it? What does that mean exactly? The goverment takes care of you womb to the tomb? It’s part of the sissification of society. This country does a remarkable job of taking care of the folks who need it. Many, though, use the safety net as a hammock and we are sick of it. The libs love the victim. As long as they have victims, they will get the votes.
You’re a prick fleetlick.
Gimme? What’s gimme about demanding that those who exploit the work of others compensate them fairly?
jr-Are these people you speak of too stupid to decide whether or not to take the job? Sounds like Gimme to me.
Yeah, like those sissies in New Orleans.
They weren’t “victims.” They were just typical poor people looking for a handout.
Look, there is a tiny kernal of truth to what you say. Drug abusers and chronically lazy will always be with us. Society can only do so much for those people, granted.
But that doesn’t explain the 45 million people without health insurance. That doesn’t explain the millions of children living in chronic hunger. That doesn’t explain why the rich are so much richer and the poor are so much poorer here than in every industrialized country of the world.
What does explain it are the people at the top who benefit from the system as it is, and their willing idiots, the Fleettwoods and the GolfNuts who have a little and think they’re rich.
The Rush Limbaughs and the Cato Institutes play you people for the suckers you are by making it seem like you’re part of their “success” crowd.
You’re not. Limbaugh makes 5 million dollars A WEEK. He wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.
Fleetlicker?
Where’s their choice? WHAT’S the choice? Slaving or starving?
I got something for you to spend the rest of the day focusing your oh so little mind on fleet.
Next time you are in a restaurant? Remember that the folks bringing you your food are well aware of the attitude of folks like you.
I hope your food has an….. interesting journey from kitchen to table!
Bon apetit jerk.
My God, Fleet, on a day such as this you are so consumed by hate for your fellow man.
Unbelievable!
So…people paying minimum are slave owners? Please tell me where the auction is that they go to buy and sell their “slaves”? And, do they have to register their new slave names given to them by their masters?
Puhleeze, people…a tad exaggeration here? Is there anything stopping these downtrodden slaves from getting some kind of education so they can get better jobs? Nope. Matter of fact, there are hundreds of options open.
Slaves? Give me a break from your hyperbole.
ws-It is exactly the opposite. I would rather people be happy than beholden. I would prefer they be empowered, make smarter choices. After all, we do have excellent social programs to help people. There is no hate here.
I’d suggest nobody share their stories. It all ends up being twisted to be used against you at a later time anyway. No matter how legitimate it is.
Just for the record, in my restaurant, no one makes less than $6.50 per hour and they get to keep their tips on top of that. Some of my waitstaff make over $7.00 hr in WAGES and still keep their tips.
It’s hard to get good workers here. Gee, at less than three bucks an hour, I wonder why?Everyone tells me my labor costs are what keep us breaking even and not showing a profit yet. I dont care. If I cant make a profit without screwing my staff, it isnt worth it.
Waiting tables, busing tables, washing dishes by hand, carrying 50lb boxes of veggies, etc. is damn hard work and worthy of a living wage. Not to mention dealing with bad attitude demanding customers and a stressed out boss.
Resaturant work is indeed hard and dirty, with crappy hours, but it is honorable hard work. I waited tables when I was young and I still do it now. And give MY tips to the poor hardworking dishwasher who is deaf. But he supports his family on his job with me, and we damn sure couldnt run the place without him.
And seeing him smile as he comes to work, and seeing the rest of the staff light up when Doug arrives and high fives everyone is a waaaaay greater joy than counting the money at the end of the day.
Self serving post? No. Just to let you know that not all restaurant owners are scrooge. I love ALL six of my employees and send lots of food home with them at the end of “leftover night” on Mondays. Hehehe. They are all gaining weight….
And FYI, they’d march into hell for me. They already have. I’d do the same for them. I already have :)
We are closed today ’cause no one wanted to work. Rather than force someone to work on thanksgiving, we just closed down.
I am thankful today for my wonderful staff.
I know none of them will be reading this, but they are amazing, they inspire ME every day, and this weekend gig at my place is a SECOND job for most of them. Bless them every single one.
The best way to get good service at a restaurant? Go to one that treats their employees as real people. Go to a place where management is lugging boxes with them.
Go to a place where the owner says I LOVE MY STAFF!!!!!!!
No amount of tips will make up for that!
Oops mom, you are probably right, but I posted that before I saw your warning.
Heheheh. I think the right side of the blog already has PLENTY of ammunition to shoot at me. That story is just one more arrow in the quiver.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll go back to economist mode and talk about how Kansas will NEVER succeed as long as well sell ourselves as the low cost provider of labor.
We cant out “low cost” china or indonesia. Is that the standard we want to set for our state? Yes, if you listen to the kansas chamber of commerce, americans for greed, etc.
Maybe that can be our new state slogan?
Kansas… as third world as you think…..
If all the answers were as easy as some people make them seem.
Do some research before just saying that raising the minimum wage would be an easy fix. According to the National Restaurant Association, 140,000 restaurant workers lost their jobs after the last minimum-wage hike. Nationally, 85 percent of those who would benefit from a minimum-wage hike are teens living with their working parents; adults living alone; or second earners. Just 15 percent of people who earn minimum wage are sole earners in households with children. There are also studies showing that there would be a higher dropout rate for high school students and many that benefit from government subsidies could loose their benefits and thus making a minimal amount of more money and in some cases less.
What about the people making $7.50 an hour? Do you think that if the minimum wage is raised to $7.25 an hour that these people will also get a 40% raise? All of a sudden their paycheck will not go as far due to price increases in order to pay others the minimum wage.
How many times have you gone to a fast food place and thought the service sucked? Does that kid deserve a big raise? If the service was good, most likely that person is making more than the minimum wage.
There are many people that would benefit from raising the minimum wage, but would society as a whole benefit? I’m not sure.
Well Greg, for DAMN sure NO one benefits from slave labor.
Other than the slave masters of course.
Dont you free market folks say they would just circulate their new-found income into the economy and, well, a rising tide lifts all boats?
Maybe you dont want ALL boats lifted? Trickle UP economics doesnt work but tricke DOWN economics do?
heheheheh. IF we really had a free market, it would take care of the wage rates. But we dont.
And btw, I dont think the cost of living went up in Collyer just because my folks started to make more money.
Micro vs Macro? Maybe. But starving the workers doesnt do anyone any good.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/business/23scene.html
The Other Milton Friedman: A Conservative With a Social Welfare ProgramBy ROBERT H. FRANKPublished: November 23, 2006Milton Friedman, who died last week at 94, was the patron saint of small-government conservatism. Conservatives who invoke his name in defense of Social Security privatization and other cutbacks in the social safety net might thus be surprised to learn that he was also the architect of the most successful social welfare program of all time.
Market forces can accomplish wonderful things, he realized, but they cannot ensure a distribution of income that enables all citizens to meet basic economic needs. His proposal, which he called the negative income tax, was to replace the multiplicity of existing welfare programs with a single cash transfer — say, $6,000 — to every citizen. A family of four with no market income would thus receive an annual payment from the I.R.S. of $24,000. For each dollar the family then earned, this payment would be reduced by some fraction — perhaps 50 percent. A family of four earning $12,000 a year, for example, would receive a net supplement of $18,000 (the initial $24,000 less the $6,000 tax on its earnings).
Mr. Friedman’s proposal was undoubtedly motivated in part by his concern for the welfare of the least fortunate. But he was above all a pragmatist, and he emphasized the superiority of the negative income tax over conventional welfare programs on purely practical grounds. If the main problem of the poor is that they have too little money, he reasoned, the simplest and cheapest solution is to give them some more. He saw no advantage in hiring armies of bureaucrats to dispense food stamps, energy stamps, day care stamps and rent subsidies.
Sounds like a good idea to me .morg.
That seems to be the defining characteristic of liberal vs. conservative today.
CONservatives have pseudo-economic principles that are really religious beliefs: the free-market meets all needs, for instance, when practical experience shows that the unchecked free-market leads to horrible pollution which no one is responsible for.
Check out the chemical witch’s brew under downtown Wichita that nobody put there apparently and nobody should have to clean up.
Look at the massive death and disability rates from lead poisoning from lead in gasoline over the decades that was just part of the “free-market” system.
Friedman’s idea is just good sense–no wonder the CONservatives would never agree with it . . .
Damn, it is hard to get the right balance of things.If you do, you are damned, if you don’t, you are damned.It is always a big problem to prosperity for everyone when the population is growing more and more.I do not know if there is any one group or organization out there that can put the pieces together that have the total picture of how economics and population actually works.
One other thing that I wanted to mention is that it is kind of unusual how the map is laid out showing how the states are in comparing minimum wages to its separate economies and population.The richer states have higher minimum wages and the poorer states have the lease wages.
” It’s called moving” And all our “movers and shakers” complain that KS best and brightest get the Hell out of here.
The slave comments reminded me of this Ted Rall cartoon.
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/tedrall
Jobs by Hourly WageHourly Wage Number of<$8 350,506 18%$8 – $12 440,457 23%$12 – $16 358,282 18%$16 – $24 434,224 22%$24+ 368,521 19%Total 1,951,991 100%This was a study done in 1999 when they were considering raising the minimum wage. As you can see only 18% of total workers made less than $8 per hour and at the other end only 19% made over $24 per hour. What this says is that skill levels are pretty constant and few people are living on the minimum wage. It sounds good for politicians and newspaper editors to write about the large pool of workers living on the minimum wage but in reality that is just untrue. In a competive business atmosphere businesses have to pay higher wages to find and keep competent help. Supply and demand drives the market just as it does for any commodity.
Germie?
“In a competive business atmosphere businesses have to pay higher wages to find and keep competent help.”
Well, that’s the thing isn’t it? LACK of competition I mean. Wal-marts do not compete with one another. Dillons stores do not compete with each other. NO franchise business competes with other franchise holders. Franchises have intruded on almost every good and service. And small biz can’t compete with the franchisers! The result of course is all of them working together to KEEP any market driven minimum wage and standard of worker treatment as low as possible. Thus the absolute need for government to COMPEL employers to pay a fair wage.
Look. I know folks like you have “made it”. Or you think you have. Or maybe you make it on the works of others is which case of COURSE you want to pay them as little as possible and treat them like crap.
But see? That’s no way to build an economy or a society. Cause sooner or later the folks who aint makin it are gonna start taking it.
Even at 12 dollars per hour, that is still only 2080 GROSS per month, so take home 1800 maybe? The average cost of owning a home is 600 a month. That’s half your income. Food and medical would eat up the rest. That doesn’t include all of the other living expenses.
I remember when I would have killed for a 12 dollar an hour job. Now, it just doesn’t go near as far as it used to.
I can’t imagine it at 5 something an hour. I just can’t fathom it.
It was hard as 7 an hour 10 years ago. Something has got to give.
Good jobs are leaving America and we need to do something about it. Class warfare has been building. This is an excellent article on what is going on with the good jobs in America right now.
For those who are well established in life (older), the struggle to make it wasn’t as hard as it is today.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009246
Fleet Butt
How is asking employers to pay a livable wage asking for a government handout — seems to me if you pay more, the government gets more taxes —- keep the wages low and you encourage more illegal immigration —
political_mom,
Thanks, that was one hell of a great op/ed.
I just want to remind all that the Kansas minimum wage of $2.65 per hour applies only to those employers not subject to the FLSA; in reality, this would be a small number of locally owned restaurants, perhaps a few other locally owned small service companies.
Clarification, heart; I wasn’t being critical of your paying cash tips; just was pointing out the employer’s preference for “charge” tips, given the employer’s potential liability for FICA on ‘cash tips’ if IRS audits and finds underreporting of same by employees.
One thing that I haven’t seen discussed; the federal minimum of, IIRC, $2.15 per hour for those whose positions are “tipping” related, servers for example; thus, the busser, the cook, the dishwasher are paid $5.15/hr. as a minimum, while the employer is able to pay the server $2.15/hr., with the server looking to the customer for tips to make up the difference. I am personally offended by the concept of the owner shifting the bulk of its labor cost to me, the customer, as tips should be a reward for outstanding service, not an expected payment of the majority of the earnings of the server. I believe the minimum wage, be it federal or state, should be the same for all employees; the minimum “gratuity” on parties over a certain number prohibited; with a return to the concept of tips as being for “better than expected” service, not as an accepted part of the cost of eating at a restaurant, having a drink at the bar, etc.
KSGRM–
Why is it so hard for you reich-wingers to post a link?
I think I know the answer: too much like research. And if you did research, you wouldn’t believe most of the total BS that you seem to believe.
Also, let’s say that your facts are correct, which I sincerely doubt. At any rate, they are wildly out of date.
Even IF correct, that would mean that 20 percent of the working population in this country (20 % of maybe 150 million) make less than 8 dollars an hour.
That 30 million people not including their dependents.
Federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13/hr., with the employer responsible to bring it to $5.15/hr. if tips don’t do it:
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/whdfs15.htm
I try to tip in cash for the express purpose of avoiding IRS reporting. It’s not up to me to pay the salary. I’m not the server’s employer and I’m not tipping the IRS. Kansas should raise the minimum wage to $7.50 an hour, and then the IRS will get more revenue. Until then it’s perfectly okay to do whatever to fight a corrupt system established by corrupt Kansas politicians.
I would always post links but from the responses I got I know they weren’t researched just off the top of the head. JR you presume to much to think you know anything about me. My husband worked 80 hours a week while I worked for another company to make money for us to live on,for many years to establish a business that now employs over 30 people at wages well over the federal minimum wage. What I said and still say is that by raising the MW you are pricing the older and younger segment out of the market. Just because a new law says I have to pay my employees more doesn’t put more money in my business to do it. I either raise my prices to you or cut my work force by laying off the least qualified or least productive part of my work force. Those in training are just out of luck because libs like you just don’t get it.
Anon
Matter of necessity for Wal mart to pay the slightly higher pittance they do. NO ONE wants to work there. Hell I’d rather die than sing their loyalty song.
It’s good we’ve hit on Wal Mart. They are the nations largest employer. A good start would be anti-trust legislation against Wal Mart.
Anyways this is a moot issue. The dems are in and the minimum wage WILL be going up.
Or grm, there is another way. You could take a salary cut yourself.
Nothing makes me more angry than to see the boss bringing home 500 k, but can’t find the numbers to pay more than 6 bucks an hour. Oh boo hoo.
What are the profits you make from your business? What is YOUR salary per year? But of course the minimum wage law won’t affect you anyway IF you’re really paying well above minimum wage anyway, right?
Take the big name hotels for example. They pay maybe 6-7 bucks an hour, often illegal immigrants that I suspect they pay less. They rake in a ton of money (70-100 bucks a night x 100 rooms….that should be PLENTY to pay a decent wage.
It always amazes me when people presume to know so much about other people. Many pay periods we go without pay so we can meet payroll. Small businesses make up over 80% of all employers in our fair country. We aren’t rich, we work hard, we employ people and train them with skills they can make a good living wage with and are the most unappreciated part of the business world. How presumptious to think there is always money for unfunded federal mandates. Many small business are existing on a shoestring and are one month away from extinction. A study of economics would be really useful for those who don’t realize this.
Germie?
If you are already paying above minimum wage? What’s your beef here?
The small biz is 80% of American employers is a hackneyed old chestnut. A large portion of those “small buisnesses” folks are only ownwers of franchises. They are not TRUE small biz at all. They themselves are just employees.
JR you are just a bright spot in everyone’s day. Sorry I tried to confuse you with facts. I will go away and let you wallow in your ignorance. Sorry if I interupted that great conversation you were having with yourself.
Grm, I find that hard to believe that So many small business owners are just struggling. Take my tiny town for example. Guess who owns the nicest houses?
It sure aint the ones who are working for 6 dollars an hour. And it isn’t the ones who are managing the bigger chains (I’m talking gas stations).
I wasn’t aware that the Wichita family who owns Spangles, Genesis and Joe’s Car Wash were all struggling. Goodness, it’s about time those greedy employees took a big pay cut. Those folks who own Intrust Bank are only making a few million dollars each year too.
Maybe if people were paid more they wouldn’t have to shop at Wal-Mart and drive local businesses out of business.
In grm’s defense, I have a number of small business clients; most of them are struggling, with bankruptcy, etc., looming. The examples that are being cited by others represent a small minority of “small business” owners; the majority of whom are trying to get by, not lay off their employees, etc.
Unfortunately, the rate of failure of a traditional small business (non-franchisee, e.g.) is very high. I cannot put my finger on any statistics right now, but I recall reading in the past that ~90% of small businesses fail within the first year or so of their inception. The most common cause? Undercapitalization.
isn’t it a bit late to be posting a blog about minimum wage and doing the right thing and raising it?
Where was this blog during the congressional election?
Why didn’t the eagle press tiahrt on this issue.
Not even a mention of it.
Gee whiz, I thought Kansas was founded by abolitionists who wanted to do away with slavery!