Emmer: Cut minumum wage for service industry workers

In a free society, the minimum wage would be $0 and the government would have no say in what an owner of a private business paid for wages. Wages would be a private matter negotiated between the employer and the employee for services rendered. Period.

Perhaps health care CEOs that make near $100 million on stock options (eg, “tips”) should be cut back to $2.13/hour wages also.

Oh wait, I forgot, that’s “socialism”.

Dennis –

Nobody is taking you seriously anymore – isn’t it time for you to retire this “Dennis” persona and return under a new name? Maybe Jimmy/Rudy or Raymond? Maybe George?
How about Ronald?

How about Ayn? We haven’t had a female troll for awhile.

Judging by how often Dennis comments here (must be 5 or 6 times a day or more), I’d guess he’s retired. Hey, Dennis, are you getting any taxpayer-funded Social Security or Medicare? Or perhaps he’s gainfully employed but bilks his employer by comment trolling all day.

It’s the trolling version of piecework – he get’s paid by the comment.

Dear Tom Emmer, please keep coming up with insane policy ideas like this. It helps the rest of Minnesota see you for what you are: a right wing nut job. Matt Entenza 2010!

What ever you do never, ever eat in a restaurant at the same table as Emmer. With this latest bit of right wing quackery he has doomed himself and everyone of his dinner table to unspeakable fluids being put into the food. Not smart to piss off every single waitstaff person in Minnesota… and complain all you want about servers doing this but if you plan on turning their $290 weekly paycheck into a $85.20 one expect some pissed off single Moms and people working hard for thier money.

Government does not hinder business. It’s subsidies are what enables many companies to begin and grow.

Screw the sovereignty of private institutions deciding what wages are. We have had stagnated wages for the average American for the last 40 years. This is not acceptable. The rich are getting richer and the poor… you know the rest. The average CEO makes 400 times that of the average worker. THIS IS WAGE THEFT, FIGHT THE CORPORATIONS. THEY ARE RICH BECAUSE WE ARE POOR

This is the same stuff that the republicans tried to pull in 2006. Perhaps in Conservatopia you can strengthen the economy by destroying the consumer base, but here in the real world it is economic suicide.

We already have the lowest minimum wage in the country, even without the tip carveout. We would have to RAISE the minimum wage to level the playing field.
http://www.laborlawcenter.com/t-State-Minimum-Wage-Rates.aspx

“Some waiters and bartenders, he noted, can earn as much as $100,000 a year, which he said is unfair to the employers that hire them.”
A republican who wants to punish hard working Americans for being successful. I guess class warfare trumps personal responsibility in the GOP rant pecking order.

Not one, not two, but three 100 grand waitstaff at the Eagle Street Grill! Now call me sceptical; I would sure like to see what’s declared on the payroll tax returns for this employee nirvana.

If i own a restaurant where a server takes in $100K a year, i have to be delighted, as that means i’m pushing $500,000 or more of food and drink through her/his hard-working hands.

Why does Emmer want to cut the pay of hardworking successful, and really really rare high-income Americans serving in restaurants and hotels?

Did he come out for pay cuts for the Wall Street looters? Exactly who is among the deserving among the $100k crowd, and who is among the undeserving?

Wow!! $100,000 a year.. I knew I should have got that job at Applebee’s when I had the chance.. Emmer is the Garbage Bag that carries a bunch of Douche-bags ..

And what about the extras that are given to the top salaried? Autos? Housing? Bonus? I would wager the money spent on ONE of these top salaried people greater than 10 or 20 or 50 or more of the food server positions.

I work at a good bar and I doubt that I make 30k even! 100K?? are you kidding me! This is not Vegas, or new york. some of the people out there, and especially in this economy, assume we make 100K. not the case. If you wanna decrease the min. wage add Gratuity to every food and liquor sale since the Definition of gratuity is “A favor or gift, usually in the form of money, given in return for service.” which does not mean a contract for income! If the state minimum wage is not $2-$3 than that is not what we signed up for. Even though we are expected, and cooperate with claiming our “gratuity” at the end of the year!

Minimum wage law may be the end of me. I don’t have enough competitive skills to be worth $7.25 an hour to a company relative to the next guy. I know I could produce $5.15 an hour of value, which I could easily survive on, but any employer that might agree would go to jail, so now I have nothing and I’m doomed to starve. I hope it haunts you.

He better start from himself and cut as much as possible:
His Salary
Travel Expenses
Other casual expenses
and then make research of average lavel of wages in major indutries in the state.
Proceed research before to suggest Your idiotic things.

[...] is far and away higher than the $2.13/hr USD federally mandated minimum for tipped workers. And the Republicans are slavering to cut it further. Capitalism at its [...]

Are you seriously kidding me? Anyone that works in the restaurant industry would know that it’s not cut out to be easy. There is no way that any of us make $100 grand a year. What about those of us who are still in college, and trying to pay off our loans? We can’t get a real job since we don’t have our degree and are just trying to make a living. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Mr Emmer can go _________ himself. So cut our wages so they can go and run around in their suit and ties and figure out more ways to screw the workers and those others that work these jobs to make a living or to earn money as they go to college. absolutely incredible and pathetic to say the least. You aren’t getting my vote Mr. Emmer.

THe day I … See Moresee the hardest working bartender or waitress making a $100,000 a year is the day I will fall over dead…It just makes me sick to the stomach. Reading this part of the article below makes me just want to raise my fist… I work my ass off Mr. Emmer and I don’t make even close to that.

TIPS – “To Insure Prompt Service”
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Tom Emmer, the GOP-endorsed candidate for governor, told reporters at the Eagle Street Grille in St. Paul on Monday that the minimum wage for service workers who earn tips should be cut. Some waiters and bartenders, he noted, can earn as much as $100,000 a year, which he said is unfair to the employers that hire them.

“With the tips that they get to take home, they are some people earning over $100,000 a year. More than the very people providing the jobs and investing not only

Okay Tom Emmer, why is it you think you deserve to make over $100,000 a year, but a waiter doesn’t. Your track record doesn’t provide any evidence of hard work as far as I’m concerned. Servers work really hard and sure some may make a hefty profit, but there are many more waiters out there who make less than an average of $9 an hour with wages/tips added up. With the economy the way it is right now a lot of waiters are struggling because people do not want to tip as much. Restaurants who only pay $2.13 an hour are getting a hell of a deal, almost free labor! So businesses who are unable to make more revenue (which I highly doubt is the case) than their servers are probably pretty lousy business owners and don’t have my sympathy. Tom Emmer should probably stay away from my restaurant…because I wouldn’t stop my servers from defecating/urinating/spitting in his meal!

Tom Emmer is an idiot

[...] wage — like servers in the food industry, for example — conservatives like Minnesota candidate for governor Tom Emmer want to make sure we earn less, by even abolishing [...]

Who brings home a $290 pay check a week????? My wage is enough to cover my taxes with little left for bring home! Not to mention the fact if he drops the minimum wage he’ll have to deal with TONS of people not able to pay taxes at the end of year! because they will end up owing money because the checks weren’t enough to cover the taxes! His idea that the service staff is making more than the restaurant owner is ridiculous…. Any server that is making 100,000/year is working some place with a huge tabs and i bet the owners are raking it in too! I really hope Tom Emmer and his family enjoys eating out from now on!

I don’t agree that there should even be a minimum wage. People seem to have the insane notion, that you are suppose to be able to make a living off of minimum wage. Your not suppose to. The point of minimum wage is to get your foot in the door and get some work experience, so you can get a job that pays more. Having a family and household bills, should have nothing to do with what your employer should pay you. I am an American citizen, I earn minimum wage. If I lost my job and was willing to work for $4 a hour. And I would be willing. The government has no right to stop me.