The Seattle City Council is once again considering taking action on the $15 minimum wage—it’s become an obsession of sorts for certain councilmembers. The Council will most likely add an additional $2 million to Mayor Ed Murray’s 2015 and 2016 budget in order to “boost the pay of all city employees to at least $15 an hour immediately, rather than on the same timeline as private-sector workers.”
Of course, Councilmember Kshama Sawant—joined by colleagues Mike O’Brien and Jean Godden—is demanding the change. If Sawant is successful—and usually, for some inconceivable reason, she is—the City of Seattle will no longer have a three-year grace period to raise employee wages to at least $15 per hour as decided by Murray’s ordinance in June.
Sawant claims that the cost of implementing an immediate $15 minimum wage immediately would be $1 million in 2015 and $750,000 in 2016. Apparently, in Seattle, immediate gratification is an appropriate reason to soak up taxpayer resources.
she is a communist bitch that wants to destroy seattle, go ahead, I buy my gas bfore I go to seattle and eat and everything
You sir are the reason
I dare them to show me ONE city employee making minimum wage (including benefits)… these people are tyrants and should be treated as such…
So, the city ensuring it meets its own laws is bad because…?
I’m sure the support she gets from the unions has nothing to do with it.
Kind of defines paid altruism.
Sawant is a socialist in a democracy that allows her to push her initiatives. In her native country she was not allowed the same privilege. Her family came here to live and now she has the backing she did not get there. Our liberal friends in Seattle have decided that Seattle will be the shining light of socialism giving the example of how a truly socialist country will be established. Rights for the people paid for by the so called rich, protection of the under class while ignoring the rights of the majority. Seattle is an experiment in socialism and we will see how the people of Seattle deal with the outcomes of the votes. The people of Seattle want this at this time, and it is on their shoulders that the consequences will fall.