Posted on 08/19/2004 12:38:44 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO - The wages of more than 1 million Californians would increase by a dollar an hour under legislation approved Thursday by the Democratic-controlled Senate.
The bill by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, would raise the state's minimum wage 50 cents to $7.25 an hour next summer, and then to $7.75 an hour in January 2006.
The measure, approved on a 22-14 vote, now returns to the Assembly for final approval, which is considered a formality, before it lands on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk.
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Here's a thought -- when legislatures adopt measures such as this, for every, say $1000 in expense to those taxpayers who pay for their decision, a buck comes out of their annual salary.
Will he veto it?
And yet California dems can't figure out why small business are leaving the state in droves!
I'm sure this is the magic ticket to bringing more business back to the state.
No wonder our legislature is so anti-gun. You give them a little power and they use it to defeat their own best interests. They'd probably shoot themselves in the interest of safety, if they had a gun.
And it hurts. Hurts even more in small towns, where the same minimum applies as in Seattle - where business owners can charge more. Restaurants, retail shops etc. must all pay the same $7.16 but average income in small towns is *much* less than Seattle, so selling prices are lower. The business owners are squeezed at both ends.
Ask me how I know this.
Schwarzenegger VETO, send him a red "Schwarpie" (Sharpie) today - join the listeners of 1380 KTKZ and encourgae the Governor to veto hundreds of liberal legislation like this!
Send a RED "Schwarpie" today!
Sounds like the short path to inflation - raise the minimum and some folks will leave dirty jobs for "fast food" jobs and other low-end employers will have to boost pay to get people. Slow but steady ripples up the middle-class chain of employees and everything goes up...
I don't know , quite frankly,,
His PR folks should be by shortly. ;-)
Oh no, all the Wal-Marts are going to move outta state!
California, sliding down an ever steeper slippery slope . . .
California wants your business!
Unless you have, like, employees.
A more accurate statement would be:
100,000 Californians will soon lose their minimum wage jobs because of a mandated wage increase that increases their labor cost to a level higher than the value of the work that they perform...
I love that people think that minimum wage is so aweful. Lets stick with the current CA wage of 6.75. If two people were raising their family on minimum wage working only 36 hours a week they would make 25,272 Dollars a year unless they have five kids they are over the poverty line.. Quite frankly saying 'may I take your order' does not entitle one to nearly eight dollars an hour..
Funny coincidence... Yesterday's floor session of the Assembly included a measure to ban realistic looking replica weapons. The Assembly member backing the bill had obtained prior approval to use a prop, and produced a realistic looking "assault weapon" and pistol. Whereupon, another member of the Assembly got her skivvies in a wad because she felt it was inappropriate to have anything of that nature on the floor of the Assembly.
Who?
Why, none other than Sally Lieber, author of the Minimum Wage Bill.
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