"Just one word..."
Posted on 04/04/2016 11:37:19 AM PDT by EagleUSA
Gov. Jerry Brown, casting a living wage as a moral imperative while questioning its economic rationale, signed legislation Monday raising California’s mandatory minimum to $15 an hour by 2022, acting within hours of a similar bill signing in New York.
The bill’s enactment comes one week after Brown, Democratic lawmakers and labor leaders announced an agreement on the wage increase, averting a brawl on the November ballot.
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California political leaders and labor have struck a deal to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next seven years. One excited fast food worker hugged Gov. Jerry Brown at the announcement Monday, March 28, 2016. Video courtesy of The California Channel
In adopting the measure, California joined New York as the first states in the nation to enact a plan to raise their statewide minimums to $15. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed his state’s legislation and was cheered by labor unions at a rally moments before Brown spoke in California.
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The minimum wage is zero when your job disappears. Democrats can’t grasp the concept.
If I were this person's manager I would fire them as soon as the first step increase occurred and let them know that it was due to rising labor costs.
“2022? What’s the matter with 2016?”
Politicians like to make sure the effects of their policies aren’t felt until they are safely out of office.
They don't call him "Moonbeam" for nothing.
"Just one word..."
I just bet a friend of mine a steak dinner that by the end of the year there will be 2 things working their way through the California legislature.
A bill the would outlaw corporate downsizing due to mandatory wage increases. if you had X number of workers before the wage increase you you had to keep head count for 2 or 3 years.
A bill that outlaws moving a business out of state and taking assets with you. Businesses moving out must sell all assets and pay painful taxes before moving out of California.
Anybody think I might win that bet?
Stated more correctly, Jerry Brown signed a bill to eliminate all jobs in California that pay less than $15 per hour.
“The minimum wages binds the galaxy together....,” Brown said.”
They can pass it all they want, but there’s no way it would be Constitutional.
It is a good time to be a kiosk salesman.
Dear CA employers.
We have cheaper wages in Virginia. Just sayin’.
One employee can to the job of four? Sounds like a management issue not a minimum wage issue.
Your bet sounds like something out of “Atlas Shrugged”.
“2022? What’s the matter with 2016?”
You got to turn up that heat slowly when cooking frogs, or they jump out.
I have a gnome in CA, that is conservative and we have talked about how hard they have made it for small businesses, of which he is an owner of. He has always been optimistic. However, the other day one small company who’s technologies we follow, published that one part of the business is moving to a neighboring State with the hint it was to support a client that uses their product ( ya right, and I am the tooth fairy ). My gnome and I saw through it and noted, something to the effect, “CA sucks man, nobody is going to want to be here w/ the $15 / hr minimum.” Sort of hinting that is one reason why he thought the firm we follow are moving.
They don’t even have to pass it. I just bet him that they would be talking about it in the legislature. Screaming like stuck pigs about the evil businesses that are laying off people or leaving the state.
Liberals will do whatever they can get away with to stop either or both of those.
There, I added the full context.
The Democrats are just getting rid of the rif-raf.
CALIFORNIA 
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