Posted on 06/20/2022 7:54:06 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Austin City Council voted to approve a resolution that would direct the city manager to adopt a minimum wage of $22 per hour for city employees.
During the meeting on June 16, several city workers testified and said that a higher wage is necessary because of inflation, according to FOX 7 Austin.
The resolution asks the city manager to develop a plan and timeline to increase the minimum wage to $22 per hour for city workers, which is increased from the current $15 per hour.
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Holy carp.. When I was a Deputy in Texas, my pay was $11/hour, and $3.35 was min wage.
“....a higher wage is necessary because of inflation....”
Thus begins the vicious cycle.
And it will undoubtedly also have an effect upon those city workers who, until now, have earned $22/hr. They won't stand for being paid (the new) minimum wage! After all, they "aren't minimum wage workers!" So they, too, will demand a corresponding wage hike.
And so it continues, all the way up the salary ladder!
Regards,
An increase of 46.6666666666 %
“During the meeting on June 16, several city workers testified and said that a higher wage is necessary because of inflation,”
Testified? Is this what passes as expert witnesses in economics?
In my town Walmart and Target pay $22.00 per hour for overnight stockers.
Otherwise it’s $20.00 per hour.
Just wait a couple of months when unemployment spikes in the private sector. Tax revenues are going to plummet. Government won’t be cutting back or laying off people. Lazy ass government employees don’t live by the same rules as the rest of us. In all seriousness, I hope many leftist places like Austin get an ugly does of reality. Blue cities have difficulty delivering basic services already. It doesn’t have anything to do with money or the number of people or how much they are paid. When they really cash strapped the will turn into bigger hellholes.
This will also effect city workers currently earning well above the previous minimum wage.That's a 47% (not $7) across the board pay increase for all city workers.
Wait until they find out it puts them in a higher tax bracket.
What then? Another raise?
Hazardous duty pay.
That city is gonna go broke. And then the taxes on citizens with go up.
“Thus begins the vicious cycle.”
Since a higher minimum wage should mean less need for welfare, how about combining the minimum wage increase with a cut in welfare funding and lowering of the taxes on businesses?
....my wife would say that any kind of “government worker” is a contradiction in terms.....
Austin = Little California
...yes, indeed..... that’s why we now live in one of The People’s Democratic City of Austin’s ‘burbs.....
Seems like we are setting in a classic price, wage, price, wage spiral. Not good. People often gloss over what Reagan did in his first 2 years to end that cycle. It was painful, but worth it.
I just hope that we are able to recover from the damage that the left has done to the USA (and our prior foreign allies).
Yep. Hyper inflation is just around the corner.
Just from the headline, I thought “that’s gotta be Austin”
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