Posted on 05/19/2015 2:48:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LOS ANGELES — The nation’s second-largest city voted on Tuesday to increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 from the current $9 an hour, in what is perhaps the most significant victory so far in the national push to raise the minimum wage.
The increase — which the Los Angeles City Council passed in a 14-1 vote — comes as workers across the country are rallying for higher wages.
The impact is likely to be particularly strong in Los Angeles, where, according to some estimates, more than 40 percent of the city’s work force earns less than $15 an hour.
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You think we don’t have employers like that here already?
” So Texas just got another 50,000 employers.”
Yeah.
And how many small businesses are going to fold or be hard pressed to survive after this.
True dat. Watch the businesses flee.
You can have more. More people is good for Texas, more jobs, more schools, jails, rehabs, crime, taxes, bigger government on and on. You guys have been begging for it for years.
Put up a few thousand more Walmarts, Muslim owned greedy marts and Mosques etc.
You guys have plenty of room down there to build 40,000 5-story pink apartment building across the windswept Texas plains.
It’s a win win....
Once the link between the value of the work performed and the wage payed for doing the work is broken why stop at $15.00 an hour?
Just declare a $25.00 or $50.00 an hour minimum wage.
People won’t mind paying $5.00 for a MacDonald hamburger or coffee.
Or $15.00 for a Burer King Whopper.
Or paying triple the current price for lawn mowing, car washing, or day care.
Will they?
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40% of workers in LA earn less than $15/hr? That statistic, if true, is staggering. California is doomed.
So you’ve never been?
bkmk
And doesn’t CA impose an exit tax on fleeing businesses? Bet that tax goes up, too.
I may be mistaken but some time ago I seem to recall that dragnet2 has relatives and/or friends here in Texas. He may just be showing his concern for them since he's seen the downfall in California that started in the mid-70s, if I recall correctly from a recent post to me.
The seniors will really like this; the immigrants, the young and people of color they replace not so much.
I grew up in Chino, which is near Ontario, Pomona, Upland, etc. It was a very good place to grow up, but that place no longer exists in anything like the form it held from 1964 when we moved there from Santa Anna to 1974 when we left for Iowa where my dad was partially from. California is what sometimes happens when you get too much of a good thing.
I recall reading a book called the Milagro Beanfield War where the government provided owners with services that they did not want or need and then raised the taxes beyond what the people could afford. The wealthy connected people were then able to come in and scoop up the properties at bargain prices.
This looks like a variation of that plan. By raising wages they will eventually get rid of the lower income residents. That will lead to the exit of the businesses that service these customers. This will lead to a domino effect where prices of property will plummet. Then to be scooped up by those waiting for this opportunity.
Oh my goodness, 2DV! You're not a native Texan so you must be liberal plant! :)
Seriesly, there's a contingent of Texas FReepers who don't consider those of us not born here (self included) to be second-class Texans (at best). That's in spite of some pretty scummy people who are native Texans: Lloyd Doggett, Dan Rather, Domingo Garcia, Willie Nelson, Scott Pelley, Bob Schieffer, LBJ, Sam Rayburn, Ralph Yarborough, Tommy Lee Jones, Natalie Maines...and that's just a start.
On the other hand, Texans by choice include you (of course) as well as Ted Cruz, Chuck Norris and Ted Nugent. These "outsider" embrace true Texas values of being pro-God, pro-life and pro-gun far more than those who happened to exited their mother's birth canal in this glorious state.
Many Iowans have the same attitude.
So it will soon be illegal for anyone to work for less the $15 per hour?
That doesn’t seem very fair. What if you can’t produce $15 per hour plus a reasonable return? Guess you are screwed.
So Texas just got another 50,000 employers.
50k employers who have no issues with hiring millions of illegals.
Take um all!
Do it now.
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IF you think those 50K employers are already hiring illegals and paying less than the minimum wage of $9, why would they would they leave and come to Texas? You think they’re suddenly going to start paying $15/hr?
To some extent, I can understand that since it's a rather insular state. OTOH, the heroes of the Alamo came from other states. Thus Texas has a tradition of "outsiders" coming here to fight for God and liberty. That said, whether native-born or a "Texan by injection", all forms of liberalism must be shed to become authentically Texan.
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