{"id":158,"date":"2016-03-29T01:43:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T01:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2016-03-29T01:43:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T01:43:38","slug":"logical-fallacy-linking-a-15-minimum-wage-in-2022-to-unemployment-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/03\/29\/logical-fallacy-linking-a-15-minimum-wage-in-2022-to-unemployment-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Logical fallacy: Linking a $15 minimum wage in 2022 to unemployment in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Capture2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-159 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Capture2.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"302\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>TL; DR Summary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Occupy Democrats issued propaganda posters in 2015 proclaiming that in spite of a $15 minimum wage, Seattle&#8217;s unemployment has gone down and restaurants are booming,<\/li>\n<li><strong>But the $15 wage\u00a0does not take effect until 3 to 7 years into the future.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This linkage is a logical fallacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12038523_959929984100056_7862114587240569615_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-160 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12038523_959929984100056_7862114587240569615_n.png\" alt=\"12038523_959929984100056_7862114587240569615_n\" width=\"301\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nPoster 2 Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OccupyDemocrats\/photos\/a.347907068635687.81180.346937065399354\/959929984100056\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Occupy Democrats<\/a>. \u00a0Shared over 28,000 times.<br \/>\n<em><strong>There is no\u00a0connection between a $15 minimum wage and Seattle restaurants or unemployment in 2015 because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">there is not yet a $15 minimum wage<\/span>.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThe $15 minimum wage in Seattle will kick in gradually over a period of 3 to 7 years, depending on the type of employer.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFrom the Seattle Mayor&#8217;s Office:<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;provides for an increase in the minimum wage in the City of Seattle to $15 an hour, phased in over time, beginning April 2015: Small employers (businesses with fewer than 500 employees) will reach a $15 an hour minimum wage in seven years. Also established is a temporary guaranteed minimum compensation responsibility of $15 an hour to be met within the first five years, which can be achieved by combining employer-paid health care contributions, consumer-paid tips, and employer-paid wages. Large employers (businesses with 500 or more employees, either in Seattle or nationally) will reach $15 per hour in three years. The wages of employees who receive health care benefits will reach $15 per hour in four years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmurray.seattle.gov%2Fminimumwage%2F%23sthash.q4B9B1lP.dpuf&amp;h=BAQGZrxGOAQHansAeppiIsslgph76H6NlKvhxO7H8-OZK-g&amp;enc=AZMrJi_m8fpSBhQOmqmdbzyd-KClrtoeJBQAsiS00KqaOUN2MhFTAGjwO20tPWjJ6EXakoLYPd-577aW_7ZK-jiReDnQuNMsrZBCybM9Ecb6QMVbwtI48inQMnWPZm5m_zdeL2fI17_fZbiwe7rxrE9EMsb-ysdxw2ezaRT4SdNiC7z4I6GeIwTfBJMUYp3P7tb87X0O0OmTyVmuaQY0_nNm&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/murray.seattle.gov\/minimumwage\/#sthash.q4B9B1lP.dpuf<\/a><br \/>\nSeattle did raise its minimum wage to $15\/hour &#8211; <em>eventually<\/em>, but not yet. It is true that Fox News commentators objected to this. And it&#8217;s true that as of now, the unemployment rate in Seattle has returned to pre-Great Recession levels. None of these 3 items are related to one another, however.<br \/>\nThis poster makes a false assertion between a $15\/hour minimum wage and unemployment rates. Linking these items together is a logical fallacy. We could just as easily say that business was booming in 1999 because a minimum wage hike would be enacted in 2015!<br \/>\nBoth posters were shared into my FB news feed.<br \/>\nOf interest, the value of $15\/hour was an arbitrary figure. Both in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issues\/the-end-of-poverty\/15-and-change-how-seattle-led-the-countrys-wage-revolution\">New York<\/a> and in Seattle, minimum wage activists wanted at least $10\/hour and as much as $20\/hour &#8211; but they knew that $20\/hour would never be approved. So they split the difference to seek $15\/hour &#8211; a completely arbitrary figure.<\/p>\n<h2>Parody Alert!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/occupydemocrats.com\">Occupy Democrat<\/a>s is the most prolific producer of propaganda posters on social \u00a0media, issuing numerous posters every day. Many posters, like the examples shown here, are propaganda parodies if you consider what they say \ud83d\ude42 Fortunately for them, social media enthusiasts quickly click &#8220;Like&#8221; and &#8220;Share&#8221;, spreading their parodies far and wide!<br \/>\nT<a href=\"https:\/\/shiftwa.org\/seattle-socialists-explain-why-they-cant-pay-more-than-13hr\/\">he sponsor of the $15\/hour minimum wage pays\u00a0their own workers $13\/hour<\/a>\u00a0because they could not afford to pay more. One cannot make this stuff up \ud83d\ude42\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL; DR Summary Occupy Democrats issued propaganda posters in 2015 proclaiming that in spite of a $15 minimum wage, Seattle&#8217;s unemployment has gone down and restaurants are booming, But the $15 wage\u00a0does not take effect until 3 to 7 years into the future. This linkage is a logical fallacy. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Poster 2 Source:\u00a0Occupy Democrats. \u00a0Shared over 28,000 times. There is no\u00a0connection between a $15 minimum wage and Seattle restaurants or unemployment in 2015&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/03\/29\/logical-fallacy-linking-a-15-minimum-wage-in-2022-to-unemployment-in-2015\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,28,45,1],"tags":[237,239],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assertion","category-lies","category-logical-fallacy","category-strawman","category-uncategorized","tag-occupy-democrats","tag-occupydemocrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}