The most fun thing to watch will be the collapse of Seatac’s economy. Eventually followed by the city being turned into one large open park.
To cover the legally binding $ 15.00 an hour minimum wage those affected businesses inside Seatac’s city limits will have to raise their prices and/or reduce their work force.
Shortly, you will see businesses open for business on one side of the city’s boundaries and closed on the other.
Then, you will see the costs of living inside Seatac go up as the city government has to expand city licensing fees and raise property taxes.
Finally, you will see people moving out to places where they can afford to live.
Then, to cut the cost of governing, the city will declare most homes abandoned and then bulldoze them down to the bear earth.
Think this will not happen? Can you say Detroit?
Like it or not, the economic reality of this vote has the high probability of turning Seatac into a mini-Detroit. The only question is will the proponents of this bill leave before or after that happens.
No different than having the 2nd. and 3rd. stringers on a football team able to vote themselves as starters. The team will most likely go on a prolonged losing streak.
SeaTac is already a dump. An adjacent town, Tukwila, has the highest crime rate in the state and is a dumping ground for unassimilable immigrants on welfare.
White - 39%
Black, Hispanic, Asian - 51%
Mixed Race, Pacific Islander, Native American - 11%
SeaTac has many older motels and hotels that rent by the month, a lot of drugs, and a lot of prostitution.
Gary Ridgway, the “Green River Killer,” picked up many of his victims on the main drag in SeaTac.