Ed Assner’s Hypocrisy
You gotta love a liberal who resists following the rules they decry for everybody else. Liberal California passed a minimum wage law that requires businesses to raise the minimum wage to $10.50 starting January 1, 2017. You may be surprised to learn that big leftist and former president of the Screen Actor’s Guild, Ed Assner (yes I know that it’s misspelled) did not support minimum wage…for theatre companies. In fact, Mr. Assner filed a lawsuit seeking relief from the new minimum wage law for his industry.
The news this week featured a squabble between singer Taylor Swift and Apple over Apple’s plan to allow users to listen to Swift’s music without paying her. Swift took Apple to task and they blinked. Not only is she adored by millions of fans, but many other also no respect her for her business sense.
An article caught my eye as Pennsylvania’s new governor has floated another idea for a new tax. He’d like to tax lottery winnings. The Feds already tax the winnings, but apparently the state wants their piece also. This is not an anti-tax post, but part of the newspaper article stunned me (see photograph).
I know that’s a long title, but it is taken from a comment after a blog post about Seattle’s upcoming minimum wage hike to $15.00 per hour. The hike goes into effect on, of all days, April Fools Day. The “Living Wage” has long been one of the liberal alters. At that wage, working forty hours a week and fifty-two weeks a year you’ll earn just over $31,000.00 a year. The rub is that minimum wage jobs are SUPPOSED to be entry level jobs to help train young folks some work ethic and give them some independence in their lives. The minimum wage job is not supposed to be your career! The other rub is that at $15.00 per hour those entry level jobs are going away. Businesses cannot afford to pay that much to someone to sweep floors, serve burgers, or check coats. Seattle is finding that out as pointed out in the 
Anyone who has watched Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly knows that he eschews bloviating which is intriguing as he is a serial bloviator. After the President’s State Of The Union speech on Tuesday the topic of minimum wage has been hotly debated. And Billy O was kind enough to invite the requisite opposing pundits to discuss the issue. As he can often do, he proceeded to interrupt the conservative pundit (sorry I don’t remember her name) as she offer the usual proof regarding the FACTS that a minimum wage actually, historically, and truthfully hurts those who are just starting out. Obama with O’Reilly’s blessing wants a minimum wage of around $10.10/hour.