Here is the place where almost everyone is a billionaire but no one can afford anything...
Posted on 05/02/2014 7:26:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This will go the same way as the public bathrooms that were placed in the parks and the monorail extension.
Seattle the new Greece.
Seattle sounding like Detroit.
I lived on Seattle’s east side for 45 years. I moved to central KY three years ago. The difference in the physical appearance of people between the two places is almost a tangible observation - and a great deal of it is just how many really fat people there are here and, even more significantly, how few HWP people there are here.
That and the quality of the cars...
It will have a big inflationary impact on prices locally.
I’m all for stupidity at the local level.
But why stop there? Shouldn’t everyone live like the 1%? Make it $1000/hr.
Why not $150.00 per hour?
If you are going to do something, do it right!
RE: Why not $150.00 per hour?
Because most office workers will quit their jobs to apply to become Starbuck baristas.
Instead of $15 per hour they should enact a ‘living wage rate’.
Then, by accompanying law, each month, the actual dollar amount paid to minimum wage earners could be adjusted to reflect the actual required ‘living wage’.
Problem solved.
I was informed, some unrecorded number of years ago, that the federal government has authority to set private sector wages only during a declared state of emergency.
However, the joy that chief executives derive from thus meddling in the private business economy is so great, almost orgasmic, apparently, that it has become an accepted practice despite the state of emergency having long expired.
But from what source do city mayors derive authority to set wage amounts? Does it exist simply because no one opposes their doing so?
Do you like Kentucky? We live in WA and thinking about different places to retire.
It won't be long before the "beautiful people" will have to drive to a different city for anything.
We call our place “the garden of eden, but with more ticks”. We have chickens that keep the bugs down and have absolute quiet and privacy. I worried about radar cops every minute behind the wheel in Seattle (when I wasn’t in agonizing trafic, that is). We’ve been here three years and I don’t even think about it, and I have a 125 mile round trip commute every day. But it’s through spectacular scenery on fun twisties and I never tire of it.
Real estate taxes are very low, but there is a state income tax. The climate is spectacular. We get more rain and don’t water our lawns. But the rain comes in storms, not two weeks of drizzle at a time. Rain rarely cancels a picknic. You just run for cover for a few minutes and when it’s done, go back out and finish your softball game in the sun.
Our place: http://s409.photobucket.com/user/robbbb4/slideshow/Kentucky%20home
For me the real question is this:
Are the Current Union contracts, both government and Private, based on the Minimum wage?
If so then we might see the hand manipulating the Council. Higher union wages because of the rise in the Minimum wage translates to more money going to the union from dues. That also means more money going into the Democrat coffers.
Who loses? Everyone else...
My my. The progressives (aka the communists) have an “agenda” to enact.
Reality be damned.
This will turn out well, just like all their other schemes.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer, Lenin-worshipping city.
the results will be hilarious
the end of job-lock and the economic stimulus of welfare -
lol
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