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Jerry Brown signs $15 minimum wage in California
Sacramento Bee ^ | 4/4/2016 | David Siders

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; andrewcuomo; billdeblasio; business; california; chirlanemccray; dopeydems; failure; governormoonbeam; jerrybrown; liberals; minimumwage; moonbeam; progtards; spending; statesrights
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Again, the Rats that RULE California, have done another anti-capitalism blow to the state. Businesses will leave, jobs will disappear, and the Rats are happy because their union voter army (SEIU, etc) are happy. Consequences do not matter.
1 posted on 04/04/2016 11:37:19 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

The minimum wage is zero when your job disappears. Democrats can’t grasp the concept.


2 posted on 04/04/2016 11:39:03 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: EagleUSA
$15 an hour by 2022

In six years they will want $25.00 an hour. And on and on and on.

3 posted on 04/04/2016 11:39:44 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: beethovenfan

This has SEIU fingerprints all over it.


4 posted on 04/04/2016 11:40:33 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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5 posted on 04/04/2016 11:41:00 AM PDT by golux (Requiescat in Pace Msgr. Kenny Bunk!)
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To: EagleUSA
Watch California crash and burn.

And applaud, for this is a neighboring hostile communist foreign nation.

6 posted on 04/04/2016 11:41:02 AM PDT by Lazamataz (When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.)
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To: EagleUSA

So, one employee gets a raise and three get fired. Forward thinking, for sure.


7 posted on 04/04/2016 11:41:06 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: EagleUSA
As goes Los Angeles, so goes America, alas.

Bad, bad times.

8 posted on 04/04/2016 11:42:05 AM PDT by OddLane
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To: EagleUSA

9 posted on 04/04/2016 11:43:33 AM PDT by AT7Saluki (No cejar, no ceder)
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To: dainbramaged

I know for a fact that a national corporation with production facilities in 30 of the 50 states will be moving any job out of California where the employee is currently making under $15.00/hour, and ASAP.


10 posted on 04/04/2016 11:44:23 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: headstamp 2

“This has SEIU fingerprints all over it”

No shite Sherlock. This new minimum wage is indexed to inflation and many union contracts are indexed to the minimum wage. Minimum wage pushes up inflation which pushes up minimum wage. Rinse and repeat.


11 posted on 04/04/2016 11:45:46 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: EagleUSA; All

College students might consider a degree in robotics.


12 posted on 04/04/2016 11:45:57 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: OddLane

There’s NO WAY what happens in Los Angeles influences the way things go all over the country....


13 posted on 04/04/2016 11:46:59 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: EagleUSA

Being self employed I was always hoping that someday California might come to her senses and I could move back. It really is a beautiful state. Especially where I grew up (South Lake Tahoe).

I don’t see California changing her ways in my lifetime.


14 posted on 04/04/2016 11:48:09 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: EagleUSA

Thank goodness we have a Federal Reserve and unbacked, fiat currency, that can create all kinds of debt for both the government to support all these unemployed people and social-engineering schemes, and massive consumer debt for people to live off of.

Aren’t we lucky?

/s


15 posted on 04/04/2016 11:49:31 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: EagleUSA

2022? What’s the matter with 2016?


16 posted on 04/04/2016 11:50:15 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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This will get good. If any of you have ever been to Needles CA it is funny.

Virtually nothing left there as far as private business. As soon as you cross the bridge over the CO River into AZ-businesses EVERYWHERE. And many are new.


17 posted on 04/04/2016 11:50:27 AM PDT by crz
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“Brown, traveling to the state’s largest media market to sign the landmark bill, remained hesitant about the economic effect of raising the minimum wage, saying, “Economically, minimum wages may not make sense.”

But he said work is “not just an economic equation,” calling labor “part of living in a moral community.”

“Morally and socially and politically, they (minimum wages) make every sense because it binds the community together and makes sure that parents can take care of their kids in a much more satisfactory way,” Brown said.”

Holy cow.


18 posted on 04/04/2016 11:50:30 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Organic Panic

“... I was always hoping that someday California might come to her senses and I could move back.”

I gave up that hope when I moved out in 2001.


19 posted on 04/04/2016 11:50:47 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: EagleUSA

Next we need a minimum-profit law for employers.


20 posted on 04/04/2016 11:50:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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