Sounds about right.
let the inflation in wages begin!
There is a small city south of Seattle whose claim to fame is the international airport (SEATAC). They ran a $15/hr initiative and it succeeded. The only thing is that it doesn’t apply to the airport and the attendant airfreight businesses aren’t impacted. So it was symbolic and little else - except that it got the $15/hr wage foot in the door.
Patrick Ayers
Related to Bill?
Only 15 hourly? That is so limiting.
Why stop at $15? Why not make it $3000 an hour?
I’m blissfully insulated from Seattle craziness by the Puget Sound to the east of me, but even if it were easier to get there I would seldom go. I just have nothing in common with anybody I’ve ever run into over there, and they’ve made of the city an absolute joke.
This will be another reason not to go, given that many businesses are already talking of packing up or shutting down if this goes through. Anyone with any sense moved over to the much more business-friendly Bellevue long ago anyway.
Some charismatic woman of Third-World color - forget her name - just elected to the oh-so-socialist city counsel, has been endlessly spouting the usual unrealistic Communist talking points to anyone stupid enough to listen, and in Seattle they’re mostly all stupid enough.
Hope the place shuts down. Port activity can go to Tacoma, traffic north-south can take I-405 around the downtown, and the Lefties can all just rot as far as I’m concerned. Maybe a sizable portion will move back where they came from and ruin somewhere else for a while.
Cheap bastards. In Seattle, you’s need $25 an hour to make a decent living.
However, I live east of Seattle, across Lake Washington, so I guess I can't sign the petition or vote for it.
Why am I supporting it?
Mass Immigration - and the mass political destruction it has caused for American Conservatives.
I am going to stick my finger right in the eye of Corporate America, the RINO’s, and the neo-Cons who have been calling me a racist for the last 20 years.
You want foreign labor?
All You Can Eat, Baby!
Except now they are going to cost you $15-hour!
It’s all about finding something to get voter turnout. Turn the tides, or so they hope. If this happens, it will work well and they know it.
I notice that Miss Comrade Yabadabado isn’t out there in Shonomish County trying the help rescue the Mud Slide victims.
Guess they are too bourgeoise and white for her.
Meanwhile back on the extortion line....
Seattle is a perfect place to test basic economics. Let ‘em raise the minimum wage to $30 per hour, and pass around some popcorn.
Anyone who objects is a racist.
Maybe if the minimum wages go up to 15 dollars an hour they will only hire people who are worth 15 and hour and who can speak English. Since the people who are going to be paing these minimum wages are exactly the people who are supporting amnesty maybe this would teach them a lesson too.
Let ‘em have it and then let the windbag commies have to explain the consequences.