Higher Minimum Wage Backfires In Loss Of Free Housing

Common Sense Commentary: My friend, who sent the article below to me, says it is funny, and it is if the laughter has a cynical ring of disgust to it. Of course, my friend meant it is so "pitiful" it is laughable. But, it is also a typical example of the mind-set of Liberal Socialists who literally live off of the working, tax paying citizens of the country and the stupidity of politicians.  Most of these lifetime feeders at the public trough, having grown up on welfare, think it is their birth right. Ninety percent of  these people are on the same level of illusion as the spoiled child of the ultra wealthy, who thinks he somehow earned the wealth he squanders. Both are delusional. RB

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Now this is downright funny. They 
scream for a higher minimum wage.  
Then when they get it they complain 
because they make too much money 
to qualify for the free stuff. Go figure.

Seattle Employees Ask for Reduced 
Hours So That Jacked-Up Minimum 
Wage Won’t Cost Them Subsidized 
Housing

By jacking up minimum wage, Seattle has 
provided a valuable lesson in liberal econo-
mics. The plan has now backfired.

Nora Gibson is the executive director of Full 
Life Care told KIRO 7 she saw a sudden 
reaction from workers when Seattle’s phased 
minimum-wage ordinance took effect in April, 
bringing minimum wage to $11 an hour. She 
said anecdotally, some people feared they 
would lose their subsidized housing so they 
have asked that their work hours be reduced 
to remain eligible for all government subsidies.

It doesn’t stop at $11/hour. The law puts it up 
to $15 starting January 1, 2017, they will have 
to reduce their work hours even more to remain 
eligible for handouts. Good thing the minimum 
wage wasn’t raised even higher, most would 
not work at all, they prefer to be spoon fed and 
remain on the government plantation.

Remember free market capitalism? Under that 
system, the harder and smarter you worked, 
the higher your standard of living. But that was 
found to result in income inequality, so now we 
have a system where wealth is bestowed by 
bureaucrats, and working harder doesn’t always 
make sense.