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Posted on 02/18/2016 5:46:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
Oregon is trailblazing a national debate with a proposal that would not only make the state's minimum wage for all workers the highest in the U.S., but would do so through a unique tiered system based on geography. [...]
The proposal would start a series of gradual increases over six years: Oregon's current $9.25 an hour minimum - already one of the highest in the nation - would jump to $14.75 in metro Portland, $13.50 in smaller cities such as Salem and Eugene, and $12.50 in rural communities by 2022.
Those minimums would dethrone Massachusetts - where the statewide rate will climb to $11 an hour next year - from the top spot, according to D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, which has been tracking wage increases across the nation. ...
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Will end up being more cost effective to buy robots than hire workers.
Enough ! Let’s raise the minimum wage to $1,000,000,000 per hour. Now we can put this issue to bed.
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I assume Oregonians had no say through a vote in this minimum wage increase.
I can’t afford to hire anymore teenagers in the summer to work at my store. I already pay they $12 an hour
Time to repeal that and take them back to an even shorter session every two years.
BUT unless it goes through as an "emergency" measure, a petition can throw it onto the ballot where the voters have at least an opportunity to shoot it down.
The next state in line to file for bankruptcy.
It’s hard for us small business owners in Oregon. We were all against it but the democrats control everything here
This is insane. I have a small family farm in Oregon and I don’t know what I will do.
Crater Lake: the world’s largest high-altitude mosquito farm...
It appears that these States raising the minimum wage rates don’t have anyone in their gov’ts. that has ever taken basic economics.
Businesses will have to close, prices will rise and, with that tiered plan in OR workers will leave the small towns and move to the big cities with higher wages for the same work; thus killing off the smaller communities.
Liberals are truly idiots.
People tried...but as another poster said this state is run by the unions ...dems
I almost moved to Oregon in late 2004. Prices had gone up over 35% on properties I had already looked at. I looked in Nevada instead. Certainly glad now that I did.
One poster is correct=-=——Minimum wage becomes ZERO when businesses leave there. Otherwise, all businesses have to be ONE person establishments. -—The owner only.
Who is John Galt.””’
Who is he?
Where is he?
When will he start his work in the current USA?????
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