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The issue of minimum wage has nothing to do with the City of Seattle. The $15 minimum wage is for a place called Sea-Tac city which is mostly the Seattle Tacoma Airport and surrounding businesses consisting of a lot of motels are car rentals. To a certain extent they have a captive base of customers-travelers. The increase would be passed on to pretty much everyone who doesn't live there similar to the motel and car rental taxes that in some areas are over 15%.
Leftists just don't get it. Minimum wage WAS NEVER intended to be a living wage but an entry level wage for people just starting out into the work force.
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Originally Posted by wlw2009
All I can say is wow...and I usually vote liberal. Wow. 15/hr?! Can you imagine what they would do for so many shops and grocery stores, especially those that are locally owned? To have their costs increases by 20% or more in an already expensive tax city?
All this would do is hurt the middle class and the lower class, as costs would just be hyper inflates because of it. Actually, the middle class would be hurt the worst because they would likely see no raise but a raise in prices.
What this country needs, and what will truly make us stronger, is a greater gap in wealth/income inequality.
No, what we need is no gap at all so that way, my salary (which I earned by going to college and working hard to better myself) becomes just barely enough to pay for a studio apartment in the wrong part of town.
Leftists just don't get it. Minimum wage WAS NEVER intended to be a living wage but an entry level wage for people just starting out into the work force.
Why shouldn't a burger flipper earn the same as a college educated, entry-level teacher or social worker?
you explain it to me then.
Why should I work any harder than the burger flipper who makes 60k a year?
don't you really think that certain jobs require more skill than others?
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Originally Posted by Vejadu
Why shouldn't a burger flipper earn the same as a college educated, entry-level teacher or social worker?
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