{"id":1972,"date":"2005-02-19T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2018-07-18T06:33:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T11:33:55","slug":"1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/19\/1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing from Nothing Leaves State Taxpayers Paying More"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Montana legislature has a really bad idea<\/i>: setting a retail minimum wage at $22,000 a year<\/a>. Friends, Montanans, and countrymen, that’s a $10 an hour minimum wage. Rationalizing:<\/p>\n

Wal-Mart pays its workers such low wages that they qualify for state welfare benefits subsidized by Montana taxpayers, people told a Senate committee Tuesday.<\/p>\n

As an incentive for these “big box stores” to pay a living wage to their workers, Sen. Ken Toole’s Senate Bill 272 would impose a gross proceeds tax on these companies. They would be exempt from the tax if they paid their employees an entry level wage of at least $22,000 a year, counting both pay and benefits and if less than half of their workers were part-time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because legislators would prefer that the workers receive only state welfare benefits, which is the choice that legislators are making.<\/p>\n

The socialists chirp:<\/p>\n

“State taxpayers are subsidizing Wal-Mart’s payroll,” said Kim Abbott, lobbyist for Working for Equality and Economic Liberation, a low-income advocacy group. “It’s ridiculous.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and:<\/p>\n

Gene Fenderson of the Montana Progressive Labor Caucus agreed, saying “The Wal-Marts, Targets, Home Depots are not paying their fair share of taxes for the amount of wealth they extract from our states and the services they demand.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because business is the chupacabra of society, and the government and the ‘progressives’ who want to forcibly redistribute wealth according to their whims are doing good.<\/p>\n

This bill, should it pass, would yet again prove that the government is a Keynesian flat tire, loudly slowing economic progress.<\/p>\n

(Link seen on Rocket Jones<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Montana legislature has a really bad idea: setting a retail minimum wage at $22,000 a year. Friends, Montanans, and countrymen, that’s a $10 an hour minimum wage. Rationalizing: Wal-Mart pays its workers such low wages that they qualify for state welfare benefits subsidized by Montana taxpayers, people told a Senate committee Tuesday. As an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20553,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/20553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}