Seattle to increase min wage to $15/hour

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Originally Posted by spyder

Well, everyone is witnessing the end of the "first job" being at a fast food restaurant... They're all going to be replaced by machines that will do their jobs better, and faster. This will catch on in Seattle, and the rest of the country will follow suit at fast food chains around the country regardless of a MW increase or not. Seattle started it.

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Let it happen. Then they will see this whole living wage is crap.

ok maybe it is time to get serious about moving to another country

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Originally Posted by rockhound

ok maybe it is time to get serious about moving to another country

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I'm afraid you'll find the situation worse elsewhere.

Another Manchurian Candidate.
I think we have one Rep. in every state and whouse.

It passed, Seattle has a $15.00 min wage.

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Originally Posted by Robb

It passed, Seattle has a $15.00 min wage.

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"Fellow Romans, does anyone smell smoke?"

What's normal minimum wage these days? $7.00 an hour?

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Originally Posted by ray1970

What's normal minimum wage these days? $7.00 an hour?

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Federal law says 7.25, think it's higher in WA state though.

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Originally Posted by Robb

It passed, Seattle has a $15.00 min wage.

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I find it amusing that the retards who voted for this have absolutely no grasp of basic economic principles. They probably truly believe that they are going to have all sorts of extra money laying around.

I'd give a dollar to see the looks on their faces when the price of the pot they are smoking doubles overnight to keep up with that kind of inflation.

Won't be overnight really. It's phased in over several years, and smaller businesses have longer to start paying the higher wage, 2 year longer IIRC. Plus, teenagers will have a lower minimum wage. It's going to get confusing in a couple years as a teen working at a large company will have a different minimum wage than an adult at either a large or small business.