Lawsuit challenges Seattle’s $15 minimum wage

Associated Press ^ | Jun 11, 8:20 PM EDT | Gene Johnson

[Olog-hai]

A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday challenges Seattle’s adoption of what would be the nation’s highest minimum wage as unfair to small franchises. […]

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, the International Franchise Association, a Washington, D.C.-based business group, said the ordinance “unfairly and irrationally discriminates against interstate commerce generally, and small businesses that operate under the franchise business model specifically.” …

[Nailbiter]

bflr min wage law

[bravo whiskey]

Interesting these libtard whack job groups think we should follow the more enlightened and evolved europeans, who were saved in 3 wars (1, 2, cold) by we neantalthal americans, until we point out europe has voter id and no minimum wage laws.

[Born to Conserve]

$15/hr is one way to avoid the underclass. Who would hire illiterate mexicans or blacks when they can hire college trained whites for $15/hr.

Dr. Walter E. Williams can explain it better than I...

[Alberta's Child]

It’s funny you should mention that. I heard an interview on Bloomberg Radio last year with an economist who made that exact point. He said the whole push towards a higher minimum wage is intended to provide a half-decent living to capable, competent people in the middle-age group up to retirement age who have been left permanently unemployed by economic circumstances and/or collapses of their own industries.

[Hotlanta Mike]