re: #280 stabby

Then you’re wrong.
The thing you argued against was more true than it’s opposite. Because minimum wage hike effects all businesses that pay it, and tends to effect competitors it’s more like a raise in the cost of a common commodity, the increase can be passed on without, for the most part, making a business lose advantage to it’s competitors.

No, I’m sorry, but the level of staffing between competitors can very very widely.

I’m not sure why you think that it’s a good thing for something to have no effect on competitiveness, either. If we raised, say, environmental standards, that’d hit some companies harder than others— the ones that were right on the previous line, companies that exceeded standards wouldn’t have to change— and that’d be a good thing.

I’m sorry, but at this point it seems like you just either haven’t read my posts. There is competitive difference in a raise in the minimum wage, because some employers use minimum wage workers for jobs that other companies use above-minimum wage workers, and because companies can vary widely in their staffing levels-per-customer. I don’t know how else to explain it.