Posted on 05/05/2015 3:24:26 PM PDT by lowbridge
Members of the Assembly discussed into the late evening Monday a proposal that would increase the minimum wage across the state by the end of 2016 and raise the wage even higher in New York City and its suburbs. It eventually passed 94-43 just after 7:45 p.m.
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The proposal would raise the statewide minimum wage to $10.50 by Dec. 31, 2016. The minimum wage in New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties would simultaneously rise to $12.50. Another increase to $11.55 statewide and $13.75 in the New York metro area would come by the end of 2017, and yet another raise to $12.60 statewide and $15 in the New York metro area by the end of 2018. After Dec. 31, 2019, the minimum wage would be indexed to the rate of inflation.
The proposal also would provide raises to tipped workers that end at $10.50 statewide and $12.50 in the New York metro area by the end of 2018. That wage also would be indexed to inflation after Dec. 31, 2019.
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Since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate minimum wage, the states uniquely have the 10th Amendment power to regulate minimum wage.
Conrades! We have achieved a glorious revolution for our workers, da! Come, let us now celebrate with caviar and the finest drinks and laugh at their stupidity!
the minimum wage would be indexed to the rate of inflation.
Insanity and unsustainable over time. And yet...
Massachusetts swallowed this poison pill not long ago, raising it to $11/hour within a few years. There have been lots of stories in the news of late about longtime retail establishments and restaurants closing after years of operation. And I see more empty storefronts. And the minimum wage hasn’t reached the “new” level yet.
And then there is the new mandatory sick time law that our commie AG wants implemented yesterday. And Romneybamacare.
Cue the MSM “economy is turning around” propaganda, complete with laugh track.
...and if you want to kill the middle class that will do it over time.
Seattle says New Yorkers are wussies.
They went to $15.
By the way, nationwide, 4.7% of the workforce makes the minimum wage. You’d think it was half of America the Democrats wail. If they had their way, it WOULD be half of America.
If they really had their way there would be welfare for half of America and minimum wage, indexed to inflation, for most of the rest. At that point they would go full Zimbabwe.
“By the way, nationwide, 4.7% of the workforce makes the minimum wage.”
A bigger chunk of the workforce are union members whose contracts are tied into the minimum wage. Everytime the minimum wage is raised, union members get an automatic raise too. So the politicians who claim to be helping the poor working class, are in reality helping out their union masters.
After this they raise it to 20 an hour, then 30 then 100 to buy some more votes.
In the mean time, business and individuals move to the red states and the red states thrive while the blue states move into massive debt and horrendous municipal decline.
Increases in Business and Personal taxes do the same. Just ask Indiana about Illinois. Then ask Michigan about Detroit.
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