With gas prices soaring, the socialist might as well make it $50 an hour.
You raise the hourly wage and the first thing landlords will do is raise the rent.
Why would a single, full-time worker need a two bedroom apartment in the first place?
One Meeeeelion Dollars
Three Seattle workers can rent even easier. Put one in the living room.
Well heck, just make all landlords lower the rent. Problem solved!
(Since they are using pink unicorn economics anyway....)
Is that with section 8?
Logic buys no votes...
ha.. good luck with all that..
Kshama Sawant is a member of the Socialist Alternative party, the United States section of the British-based Trotskyist international organization the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI). She has referred to herself as a Marxist.[26][38] Sawant has stated that she does not advocate for any system like the “bureaucratic dictatorship” of the former Soviet Union, but for democratic socialism meaning “the society being run democratically in the interest of all working people on the planet, all children - everybody who has needs, and all that being done in an environmentally sustainable manner.”[39]
Involvement with Occupy[edit]
Before running for office, Sawant received attention as an organizer in the local Occupy movement.[1][21] She praised Occupy for putting “class”, “capitalism”, and “socialism” into the political debate.[26] After Occupy Seattle protestors were removed from Westlake Park by order Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Sawant helped bring them to the Capitol Hill campus of Seattle Central Community College, where they remained for two months.[12] Sawant has joined with other Occupy activists working with local organization to resist home evictions and foreclosures. She was arrested with several other Occupy activists including Dorli Rainey on July 31, 2012 for blocking King County Sheriff’s Deputies from evicting a man from his home.[40]
Economic policies[edit]
Sawant called for large Seattle companies such as Starbucks and Amazon to be unionized in her most recent campaign.[28] In previous campaigns she has advocated the nationalization of large Washington State corporations such as Boeing, Microsoft, and Amazon.com[29] and expressed a desire to see privately owned housing in “Millonaire’s Row” in the Capitol Hill neighborhood turned into publically owned shared housing saying, “When things are exquisitely beautiful and rare, they shouldn’t be privately owned.”[41] During an election victory rally for her City Council campaign Sawant criticized Boeing for saying it would move jobs out of state if it couldn’t get wage concessions and tax breaks. She called this “economic terrorism” and said in several speeches if Boeing moved jobs out of state that the workers should take over Boeing facilities and bring them into public ownership. She has said they could be converted into multiple uses, such as production for mass transit.[42][43] She is also a supporter of single-payer health care.[28] Sawant maintains that a socialist economy cannot exist in a single country and must be a global system just as capitalism today is a global system.[44]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshama_Sawant
Yes, because too many people want to live in too little space. If you want to live in Seattle, you dang well better have a competitive income - and that’s not anyone else’s responsibility. Can’t afford it? Move.
so does that mean two workers sharing an apartment need
$10.80 an hour?
Raise it, and all prices go up, so they will need to raise it again, and prices will go up again, etc.
Liberals always demand a strengthening of their failed laws, which leads to more failure, leading them to demand a strengthening of their laws .....
ACORN Economics 101. It’s the law of demand and demand.
Yet another lovely example that the problem isn’t wages, but production and inflation of the money supply...and will be ignored by the idiotic masses.
Please please please make this happen. Seattle needs to implement this new minimum wage immediately. The only question remaining is whether those newly unemployed because of this new wage floor will be able to collect unemployment benefits based upon the new wage or their old one.
So, if he gets two roommates, he only needs $7.20 an hour. By my calcs, he’s got spending money left over!
Deal!
At 50$/Hr. I could retire and learn whether the Mayor and his liberal friends are capable of pulling the wagon!
When the big employers flee the city rents will go down.
This is a consequence of zoning and land use. Seattle has done very little in improving transportation, besides wasteful goobermint trains, and has extreme land use restrictions. Naturally housing is expensive.