Posted on 09/11/2013 4:22:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Gov. Jerry Brown said Wednesday that he supports raising the minimum wage in California to $10 an hour, urging lawmakers to approve a bill.
The measure would raise the minimum hourly wage from $8 to $9 on July 1, 2014, and then to $10 on Jan. 1, 2016.
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Tack on a zero, make it an even HUndred. Otherwise, you’re just being cheap, Jerry.
Between Obamacare and this crap, they are going to kill retired people.
Why not? The real minimum wage in California is what an illegal immigrant will accept. Raise the minimum wage on the actual citizens as high as you like, Jerry, there’s always new labor that will do it for less.
But I guess its what most of the idiots living here now want.
Agreed and, BTW, I truly believe thats by design.
Old people - people who remember a free America - are an electoral pain in the statist/leftist/progressive ass.
Who can support a family on 9 or 10 dollars an hour, why not end poverty altogether and make it thirty dollars an hour. /s
I guess they think thirty dollars an hour is to much to pay for votes.
Between the disconnect these imbeciles have with the current economic conditions with crap like this and the morons in DC falling all over themselves to legalize a multi-million strong underclass, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry anymore.
Minimum wage employees should get paid as much as the retired California state employees get paid, at least $100,000 per year for life. Why not? It is fair. It is for the children and the environment. /s
Oh good grief........do liberals know anything about running a business?
Lord that is awful. Now what are those McDonald’s people going to do. The Governor of California is awfully mean.....15 dollars!!!! Although it must be tough to live on even 15 dollars an hour in California. I guess people live with family.
Amen. Escape as soon as you are able.
This is off subject but relates to Calif Congress. I got news today that people who live on the coast will be charged more for electricity than people inland. Reason is because coast people use less and the inlanders use more so their bills are higher — this will even things out. Brown set to sign that one too. Is that constitutional? Does any other state do that?
I think you are onto something.
Unknown......as it always does when people reduce, they are charged more for what they do use.
I have a property in the desert, the desert mind you, and am being charged $150 a year because I have a septic system.
It is Sacramento that is the problem not the rest o the state.
There are a lot of different parts to the legislation, but the part you are talking about is ending some rate change restrictions established in 2000-2001 when they had those Enron electricity shortages.
Minimum wage jobs are for entry level positions, not to raise a family.
If your work skills are such that you're unable to progress beyond doing simple manual tasks, you are a candidate to be replaced by automated equipment.
The decision point between manual labor and automation is the cost.
Thus the higher the wages, the more likely the employer will purchase equipment to replace the employee. For instance computer answering machine replaces a receptionist, a food vending machine replaces a cashier, an ATM replaces a teller, automated car wash systems replace hand washing, self service facilities replace various types of attendants, etc., etc.
I’m going to check out Fuel Fix but to me it doesn’t seem fair. Somehow ending a rate restriction on a utility sounds like a rate raise.
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