2021? lol, do they realize what janet yellen will have done to the value of the dollar by then?
And the jobs will magically disappear........
Strike Seattle off of my wish list of places to visit. F’em!
Good. We can’t have all those people who can’t produce at least $15 worth of goods every hour in our sophisticated city.
Some of them are black, ya’ know?
/sarcasm
An example of why government can not run anything, as if the VA was not enough.
So raise every minimum worker to $15.
The worker now making $15 will insist on a a raise, maybe to $20.
The supervisor making $20 will have to be raised to $25 or $30....and so it goes.
All because of some kid just out of school who has absolutely no experience and who should probably pay to get the experience.
Using Karl Marx’s ideas to help the middle class is like using Adolph Hitler’s ideas to help the Jews.
That's funny, since the Washington state minimum wage has increased to $10-something from $2 or whatever.
Keep at it Washington State, you’ll make California look like pikers soon.
Stingy bastards. I would have made the minimum wage $100/hr.
Teenagers and young adults in their 20s, especially blacks and other minorities, aren’t going to be able to find jobs. No one makes “minimum wage” forever. It is an entry level wage to test people out. By definition it can’t be a “living wage.” That’s like walking into a company as a 22 year old out of college and demanding $80,000 per year. If the company is required to pay it, the company won’t hire. Sure, it will pay an experienced person the “minimum wage” but it won’t take a chance on an unemployed teenager or young adult. Then they get stuck in the mythical “cycle of poverty.”
How are businesses with locations in cities near by SEA responding? Closing their SEA location(s)
And how many businesses wil go belly up as a result?
The law will phase in the higher wages over a three- to seven-year window, depending on the size of a company.
Why? If the increase grows the economy implement it immediately and don’t limit the size of a company either.
Seattle leftists should be enraged at this slow implementation:))
no more tipping folks....ain’t that grand?...
Why stop at a free “basic” income? That’s such a puny concept! Instead, let’s make everyone RICH by giving a trillion dollar coin to every adult in the U.S. Then we’d all be rich! And no one would ever have to work again! Since we’d ALL be RICH!
Myself? The first thing I would buy is a pony. And a jet airplane. Oh, and then I would buy the Mona Lisa. And the Broncos. Gosh, I just LOVE being RICH! And not having to work!
BTW, the trillion dollar coins could be made from a base metal like nickle, so they would be cheap to make, and a few extra ones could be minted for the government itself, so taxes could be completely eliminated and yet government could still perfectly function and be debt free to boot! It’s such an elegant solution I don’t know why it hasn’t been implemented yet!
Once hyperinflation kicks in $15 an hour will be pennies.
I guess they never heard the Term “Merit Based Pay”.
The more you contribute to the Company’s bottom line, the more the Company Compensates you.
I started my Working Career as a Midnight Shift Mail Clerk. I ended my Career with the same Company as a Regional Vice President. I worked my Butt off and worked my way up.
The idea that the Liberals think that a Midnight Shift Mail Clerk will always be a Midnight Shift Mail Clerk is an insult to hard working people everywhere.
If you choose to stay in a Job with no real responsibility, the Salary you receive would remain commiserate to your Contribution to the Company’s success. Artificially inflating Compensation will result in less Midnight Shift Mail Clerks, period.
A hotel at SEATAC (town surrounding airport) closed eight rooms so they didn’t have to pay the $15/hr. (hotels with more than a certain amount of room would have to pay). How many other businesses will find a way round that? Plus, people won’t be tipping at restaurants who had to raise prices - saying of course people would go there anymore. Socialists think that businesses are welfare organizations.
Another Peoples Republic of Seattle marxist.
Hope businesses flee like deer before a forest fire.
There is plenty of room in Texas for them.