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"[Minnesota] Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Tom Emmer said the state could gain jobs if employers could a pay a lower hourly wage to employees who earn a lot of money from tips."
-Sure. It's a plan?
Lowering minimum wage $1 dollar will allow you to overpay your executives ~$2000 dollars per employee per year. Kind of seems like a no-brainer, right? They won't miss that $1 dollar, scraping by as they are in minimum wage jobs.
In fact, faith-based charities could pick up the slack if restaurants just stopped paying their waiters and waitresses entirely.
I'M SORRY, I CAN'T HEAR YOU RIGHT NOW, I'M LOSING MY MIND.
The answer is "No, you may not have two weeks off," if that's what's coming next.
I think it's a brilliant plan…let's balance the budget and cut the deficit on the backs of those who can least afford it! What could go wrong?
This guy should be dragged into the street and shot.
All the people with the guns are voting for him, so….
Even better, why even pay employees any money at all. Then everybody could have a job!
i like the word gubernatorial. it's just fun to say. know what else is fun to say? tom emmer is a fucking dumbass. say it with me…tom emmer is a fucking dumbass. see, wasn't that fun?
The "Tea-Party"-controlled Congress will surely have to give themselves a generous pay-increase for conjuring such economic wizardry!
Waitstaff internships for all!
Urgh. That was at Van B.
But seriously, how does this sound like a good idea? The tipped minimum wage hasn't been upped since 1991, due to the National Restaurant Association's lobby arm and drawing people's attention to that is probably a mistake.
Think of all the jobs we could gain if we eliminated overtime pay and started delivering the mail on Sundays.
Oh. You want jobs and get paid for them?
Looks like we've got a guy who doesn't mind his food being spat in.
And they say the Republican party is the party of NO.
"Emmer said some well-tipped Eagle Street Grille employees are among those making more than $100,000 a year."
This place is actually directly across the street from the XCel Energy Center, meaning that those suppsoed six-figure tips come from disproportionately numerous, disposable-income-flinging hockey and arena-rock fans. Using this place as the benchmark for server/bartender wages when there's people making a lot less just a few blocks down is spectacularly dumb.