Obama's Minimum Wage Claims Its Latest Victims - Ashley Furniture Slashes 840 Jobs In California

[Billy_Kinetta]

Then their work is even less important.

The owner has to avoid a 35 hour week so as not to provide benefits.

Why should an employer provide ANY benefits?

Ne need...Universal Health Care.
You want it, you got it.
Of course, SOMEONE has to pay for it.

I don't want it.

Why should anyone pay for another's access to it?

Because we are a Representative Republic.
You would have to change the Federal and State Constitutions in order to prevent certain types of Taxation.
The simple fact of the matter is that employees WAY outnumber business owners.
A fact that has both pluses and minuses.

Taxation is applicable only to those powers mandated to the federal government by the Constitution.

Setting wages and benefits due from the employer are nowhere to be found.

 

[Indeependent]

The owner has to avoid a 35 hour week so as not to provide benefits.

Why should an employer provide ANY benefits?

Ne need...Universal Health Care.
You want it, you got it.
Of course, SOMEONE has to pay for it.

I don't want it.

Why should anyone pay for another's access to it?

Because we are a Representative Republic.
You would have to change the Federal and State Constitutions in order to prevent certain types of Taxation.
The simple fact of the matter is that employees WAY outnumber business owners.
A fact that has both pluses and minuses.

Taxation is applicable only to those powers mandated to the federal government by the Constitution.

Setting wages and benefits due from the employer are nowhere to be found.

No problem.
Don't pay your taxes, go to jail and lose your home.
Any other issues from Fairy Land you'd like to discuss?

 

[Dekster]

The next move will be store closings as they partner with JC Penny's. Our Ashley's is massive and looks like a ghost town. Seldom see more than a couple cars in the parking lot.

Their furniture, although beautiful, cost too much.

They also do not often do free delivery, at least ours doesn't, and are kind of hateful about it, which turns a lot of people locally off them.

Bottom line if you customer base is buying, you don't close locations....end of story, eh?

Not necessarily. Sometimes businesses will close profitable locations as part of their reorganization. That happened locally with a regional chain restaurant. Ours was profitable, but they closed it to sell the property under the premise they could get more for the location because it was profitable than they could get for some of the losers elsewhere, plus it shortened their delivery costs by cleaning all the locations out of this general area of ours and an adjoining state.

I agree, but to blame OBama and a increase as wages as the cause, is being dishonest and unfair.

Hard to really know if it is dishonest or not. Ashley's is a private company so we have no idea what their internal #'s are. A local furniture guy whose business went under said that furniture stores don't really make money off selling the product so much as they do off financing it, and he just wasn't in a position to be able to finance purchases.

 

[cnm]

Go check how well it has worked out in Seattle ....fucking morons.

Obviously something you would never do...

Overall, they found a 1.1% decline in employment for low-wage workers and a small raise (73 cents per hour) and small cut in hours (15 minutes a week) for those who kept their jobs. Noting the combination of higher wages and less work, the authors conclude that "the effect of the Seattle Minimum Wage Ordinance on low-wage workers’ earnings is ambiguous and likely fairly small.” The implied labor demand elasticity is 0.15, which means a 10% wage hike would lead to a 1.5% employment loss.
https://www.economy.com
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Btw, no need to sign your posts, we know who you are.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

So Americans should be happy to work for wages well below the poverty line because Ashley can't manage a business?

Nice.

Why do you morons hate America?

Can I laugh any harder...???? At you.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

So Americans should be happy to work for wages well below the poverty line because Ashley can't manage a business?

Nice.

Why do you morons hate America?

No business owner should be forced to pay more than the work is worth.

Yeah, sell that shit to white america...who pay CEO's millions to sit on their ass and do nothing or better still a congress that makes 6 figures of my hard earned tax dollars and have done nothing in the 8 years they've been there but obstruct the nations business.....duh

Start your own furniture business and compete....

Go ahead.

What's the matter....?? What's keeping you ?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Why should an employer provide ANY benefits?

Ne need...Universal Health Care.
You want it, you got it.
Of course, SOMEONE has to pay for it.

I don't want it.

Why should anyone pay for another's access to it?

Because we are a Representative Republic.
You would have to change the Federal and State Constitutions in order to prevent certain types of Taxation.
The simple fact of the matter is that employees WAY outnumber business owners.
A fact that has both pluses and minuses.

Taxation is applicable only to those powers mandated to the federal government by the Constitution.

Setting wages and benefits due from the employer are nowhere to be found.

No problem.
Don't pay your taxes, go to jail and lose your home.
Any other issues from Fairy Land you'd like to discuss?

Oh hell no. Better to participate in unconstitutional financial rape than to spend time in prison. But much can be accomplished by rogue governments at the barrel of a gun, eh?

On that note, are you a homeowner? Think you OWN that house?

 

[Nia88]

The government wouldn't have to set a wage minimum if business owners paid their employees reasonable wages.

 

[Indeependent]

Ne need...Universal Health Care.
You want it, you got it.
Of course, SOMEONE has to pay for it.

I don't want it.

Why should anyone pay for another's access to it?

Because we are a Representative Republic.
You would have to change the Federal and State Constitutions in order to prevent certain types of Taxation.
The simple fact of the matter is that employees WAY outnumber business owners.
A fact that has both pluses and minuses.

Taxation is applicable only to those powers mandated to the federal government by the Constitution.

Setting wages and benefits due from the employer are nowhere to be found.

No problem.
Don't pay your taxes, go to jail and lose your home.
Any other issues from Fairy Land you'd like to discuss?

Oh hell no. Better to participate in unconstitutional financial rape than to spend time in prison. But much can be accomplished by rogue governments at the barrel of a gun, eh?

On that note, are you a homeowner? Think you OWN that house?

Of course I don't own my property.
And the School Taxes?!
It's a mafia.

 

[Geaux4it]

It's quite simple. If you don't like the wage for which your value dictates, let your feet do the talking provided you're in a position to have options. If not, consider yourself fortunate for what your value garners relative to compensation at current position

-Geaux