Joe Scarborough scolds restaurant owner for minimum wage surcharge on customer's bill

[egbertowillies]

Is Joe Scarborough getting soft? Is he moving to the middle? Last week Joe Scarborough took the rare position of speaking up against the massacre Israel was effecting in Gaza. Taking that position was bold as both politicians on the Left and the Right were going out of their way to put a good face on Israel’s actions in Gaza.

This week however Joe Scarborough took a position on the minimum wage based on reality as opposed to his typical Ayn Randian ideology. A story out of Minnesota gave him the opportunity to weigh in.

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http://egbertowillies.com/2014/08/09/joe-scarborough-minimum-wage-surcharge/

[edgineered]

1. Always a politician - got start presenting

the electable sides of themselves, at least until the campaign is over. The hopelessly lost will be so proud of how cooperative their side can be.

[Dawson Leery]

2. It's campaign season. Dead intern does not want any bad headlines

that can be used against his fellow Thugs.

[whistler162]

3. Normally it is called a price increase

"The owner of The Oasis Café in Stillwater Minnesota, Craig Beemer, started adding a 35 cent surcharge to every bill supposedly to offset the 75 cent minimum wage hike. The idiocy of this move is that he likely does not add a surcharge when his rent, utilities, cooking oil, and other items go up in price. He likely sees those as a cost of doing business. "

In this instance the owner put it on the bill in one lump sum instead of increasing each of the menu prices.

[Thinkingabout]

4. Good point about the restaurant failing to add surcharge when other cost go up,

Why pick a fight with the workers. If the wages to the workers is the only thing which has risen in the last few years then the owners should be happy to give raises to workers.

[packman]

5. Reminds me of that smirking Papa John

who raised pizza (or what passes for pizza in his mind) prices up a quarter to cover the cost of ObamaCare and then made sure everyone knew about it. That guy should be called Papa Botox.

[Gothmog]

6. I keep hoping that Morning Joe will run for POTUS so we get him off TV

I can not watch his show