Posted on 12/23/2019 8:22:00 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Floridians will vote next year on whether to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026, an amendment initiative led by Orlando attorney John Morgan that’s already drawing opposition from Republican leaders and the business community.
The initiative that will be called Amendment 2 made the November ballot after its wording was approved by the Florida Supreme Court in a decision released Thursday.
Court review was the last obstacle to getting the measure on the ballot after Morgan’s Florida For A Fair Wage collected more than 770,000 of the required 766,200 signatures.
The amendment would raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour beginning Sept. 30, 2021, and increase it an additional dollar each year until it reached $15 in 2026. After that, future increases would be adjusted annually for inflation.
The current minimum wage of $8.46 is scheduled to increase to $8.56 on Jan. 1.
The proposal already has drawn the ire of business groups such as the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Florida Retail Federation.
“This ballot measure will actually hurt the very people its proponent claims it will help," said Edie Ousley, vice president of public affairs for the Florida Chamber, in an email to News Service of Florida Thursday. "This is the poster child for a proposed constitutional amendment masquerading as a turnout weapon to impact the presidential election.”
Republicans have also criticized the proposal, with state House Speaker Jose Oliva saying in an email, “There’s nothing compassionate about mandating someone’s job out of existence and robbing them of the dignity of work. ... This arbitrarily chosen dollar figure, while applauded on the cocktail circuit, will cost working families their jobs and that is something I cannot support”
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On the rare occasions when successful voter initiatives actually reduce government power or spending, the Political Left instantly goes to court to challenge the language, and the Deep State instantly finds clever ways to avoid enforcing it.
Here in Washington state, I really enjoy our initiatives.
We have several politically active wealthy Conservatives who dream up something every election that puts the Political Left on total TILT!
Obviously, no Conservative initiative can win a state wide majority here, but the Left Side hysteria is the best show on TV for a couple months.
The Republican Party needs to be more of a nationalist party and not just a party of 8 million users of cheap labor at any political price. Grow up my fellow Republicans, it's big world out there.
So now Amazon is a small business?
The basic problem is that all those people are unskilled laborers. Whose fault is that?
The right for flooding the USA with LEGAL immigration.
Both parties have been flooding the US with both legal and illegal immigration, and it doesn’t just impact unskilled workers.
Again, try paying your plumber minimum wage and get back to us.
If you develop a marketable skill, you can market it at market rates. If you don’t have any marketable skills, you need politicians to set your rates and you are screwed because the people paying your salary will always buy off the politicians to keep your rate low.
Average Plumber Hourly Pay = $21.11
That is not great money.
That is $42k per year, and it is important to remember like so many others of your political persuasion you fail to consider that wages grow over time. You are no doubt including plumber’s helpers to get that number. The going rate is more like 40 to 80 per hour.
Plus $21 per hour is more almost all of the minimum wage proposals out there.
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