Too bad Vancouver is so far away...
I’ll be curious to see how much fast food prices go up as a result of this.
Prison there with 800 inmates.
Wonder if they are covered also?
Late yesterday it was thought the vote was failing with only a half percent lead and rapidly closing.
Will the experiment be terminated prematurely if it goes disastrous? A year or two is a long time when things get hairy.
This “experiment” won’t actually tell us anything useful, because of the relatively unique nature of the Seatac economy: (1) The airport isn’t going anywhere, (2) businesses within the airport already have skewed/inflated prices because they have a captive audience/customer base, and (3) this is unlikely to diminish that customer base, for the simple reason that virtually no one chooses where to travel based on the prices of amenities at the destination airport.
It will come in handy for all the laid off IAM union goons from Boeing when they reject the company offer and realize that Boeing in now no longer building anything new in the SEATAC area. But the bitch will be that their Starbucks coffee’s will cost $10 a pop so they will end up having to sleep all day! It’s going to be fun to watch. When I look north to Oregroin and Washington, I realize that as screwed up as California is ( and it is), these two states are California on steroids! I really pity anyone who is old and gets sick in Oregroin, because they are dead ducks unless they move elsewhere.
Can you say bye-bye Boeing.....
The first thing they'll do is go running to the owner all upset and he says to them: “I'm sorry, but your government dramatically increased my costs of doing business and I'm passing them on to economic illiterates like you.”
Or (hopefully), will a novel black market emerge?
They should just raise the min.wage to $50/hour, and let the politicians give out waivers to corporate donors.