$15 Dollar Minimum Wage Passed In California And New York

This is a great issue for Democrats in an election year. All they have to do is ask at every rally, “Do you think you are worth less than someone living in California or New York? Do those liberals outwork you?” It will help the down ticket.

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This will only accelerate their replacement by robot workers.

I think I deserve 100K to 200K a year to just sit here and poke fun at yall.

And accelerate the closing of businesses and making millions unemployable. A restaurant owner making over $100K who sees his income cut in half because of the new law will just close and take a job as a manager for a large chain. Just think how hard it's going to be to fill those $15 an hour jobs from the not so great job pool in San Bernardino and Stockton. Sometimes I think there are no words to describe how stupid most liberals are.

I believe small business like that are exempt.

Why would an owner see his income cut in half because his cost of labor increased? I'm guessing you've never run a business.

Real life example. A few years ago a developer wanted to develop the empty Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx. It would have created 1,200 jobs. The Bronx borough president got involved and insisted on a minimum wage $4 higher than the legal minimum. The developer said that made it to expensive & cancelled the project. Goodbye 1,200 jobs. The building is still a vacant eyesore today.

Expect more checkout kiosks & less people working the floor & less customer service.

Wow. Talk about misrepresenting the truth. It was the people of the neighborhood who shut down the project. Bloomberg was trying to bring gentrification into the area. To say to failed over wage demands is to oversimplify.
To call it an ugly eyesore is to not know the place. The Armory is literally a castle, with spires that tower above the neighborhood. The neighborhood wanted schools and a community rec center, not expensive malls the locals couldn't afford to shop in. When all was said and done, I believe every community board in the Bronx voted against the mall, and the City council voted against it, something like 44-1.
Here is an article from a different point of view.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/commonomics/kingsbridge-armory-community-benefits-agreement

Some restaurants are trying to get out in front of this. Kiosk tablets at Applebee's and Chili's. Even some Friendly's. I told the waiter when he was showing me how to use it that it was going to eventually replace him. He argued that it was for convenience of customers and his job wasn't going to change. Sure. Do these folks think they are going to get the 20% tip from me when they are nothing more than a server? If I don't get the full waiter/waitress experience they're not getting a full tip. At Buffets in Vegas I typically leave $5 at table for the wife and myself. I'll leave a similar tip if I order from the tablet, ask for refills from the tablet and pay on the tablet. These restaurants should be able to reduce head count and keep pricing in-line with this technology.