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DC City Council appears set to reverse $15 minimum wage
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com ^
| July 09, 2018
| Sean Higgins
Posted on 07/10/2018 5:14:42 AM PDT by Enterprise
DC City Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced Monday that he along with several other council members would introduce a bill during Tuesday's session to repeal Initiative 77, the city's newly-passed $15 an hour minimum wage.
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"I don't believe the law that Initiative 77 would put into place is good for our city, good for our restaurant industry or good for our workers," Evans told a local ABC affiliate. Evans and others on the city council as well as Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser have long been critical of the initiative.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bluezones; citycouncil; dc; food; jobs; nevermind; socialism; tips
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Common sense in D.C.?
To: Enterprise
Someone on the council got an earful.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:16:15 AM PDT
by
ptsal
( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
To: Enterprise
Well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:17:27 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Enterprise
There are no atheists in foxholes.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:17:29 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: Enterprise
To: Enterprise
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:20:21 AM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
(But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.- George Orwell)
To: Enterprise
The time to stop bad legislation is BEFORE it becomes law. But if you opposed this socialist nonsense a year ago, you’d have been called a racist, a sexist, and a capitalist oppressor.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:20:56 AM PDT
by
IronJack
(A)
To: Enterprise
Reverse it? Do you mean people have to pay the company $15 an hour to work?
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:21:32 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
To: READINABLUESTATE
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:23:21 AM PDT
by
KSCITYBOY
(The media is corrupt)
To: AppyPappy
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Not if it's digital...
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:24:53 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: IronJack
As I understand the article, this was an initiative passed by the voters. However in D.C., the council has the ability to override the voters.
To: ptsal
I have no doubt that the restaurant owners turned the air blue with angry cell phone calls.
To: Enterprise
So many illegals work in restaurants why pay more?
I can see all the Peruvian chicken places and Guatemalan fast food joints close if $15 is law.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:30:49 AM PDT
by
OpusatFR
To: Enterprise
“As I understand the article, this was an initiative passed by the voters. However in D.C., the council has the ability to override the voters.”
THAT is not a Good Thing no matter where it happens!
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:33:13 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
To: Enterprise
However in D.C., the council has the ability to override the voters.
This is simply setting the stage then for a Tea Party-style rebellion from the Left. There will be outrage, these clowns will be shown the door at the next election, and the wage will be voted back in.
Right or wrong, people don't like elites overriding their ballot box decisions.
To: Enterprise
Oh no you don’t! You liberal POS’s deserve to live with the commie bee hive you stirred up!
Conservatives need a unnamed PAC to sponsor TV ads in DC DEMANDING $15+ hr plus free health care and 401-K for all the part-time fast food layabouts that show up for work.
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posted on
07/10/2018 6:07:01 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
To: Enterprise
Darn. It would have been the end of D.C.
To: Enterprise
This is very logical.
You figure every restaurant in DC is probably wired like a pinball.
With wages going to a mandatory $15/hr all of places were leaks happen will dissappear.
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posted on
07/10/2018 6:31:51 AM PDT
by
TheShaz
To: ptsal
not....good for our restaurant industry
Someone on the council got an earful.
from their campaign donors
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posted on
07/10/2018 7:54:05 AM PDT
by
joshua c
(To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing and we lose.)
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