Washington Democrats’ have included multiple state income taxes and a socialized medicine/single-payer healthcare system in the latest version of their party platform. So, it should come as no surprise that in the liberals’ attempt to put give government even more power of the people that their platform also calls for a statewide $15 minimum wage.
Jay Inslee’s party platform advocates:
“An incremental increase in the state and federal minimum wage, to reach $15.00 per hour by 2020, with regular increases thereafter, indexed to inflation.”
And, for good measure, Democrats’ platform also states that they oppose “using tips as part of a minimum wage calculation.”
In other words, not only do Democrats want to impose potentially devastating labor costs, they want to take away one of the key solutions that restaurants could rely on to stay in business.
Democrats’ plans for our state are — simply put — invasive. They would like nothing more to control every aspect of life/business — and that’s not only harmful, but it’s unacceptable.
And, for good measure, Democrats’ platform also states that they oppose “using tips as part of a minimum wage calculation.”
In other words, their position is entirely consistent with Washington State’s I-688, which we passed by a 2-1 margin in 1998. It allows no tip credit in tour state’s minimum wage calculation.
Care to show us the economic damage we’ve suffered over the past 15-plus years as a result?
Since you’re citing I-688, care to show us how $15/hr is indexed to inflation? Being entirely consistent with I-688 would put the minimum wage at $9.47, which is where it is.
Since you’re citing I-688, care to show us how $15/hr is indexed to inflation?
The same way I-688 did it. First it made a large increase in our state’s minimum wage:
“Nov 3, 1998 – Shall the state minimum wage be increased from $4.90 to $5.70 in 1999 and to $6.50 in 2000, and …”
… then I-688 tied that much larger minimum wage to annual changes in inflation. The Democrats now propose to do the same thing again, a mere twenty years later. (That must seem like a radically new idea to you, eh?)
Being entirely consistent with I-688 …
Exactly! See, even you can learn!
Thanks for your admission and praise that $15/hr isn’t indexed to inflation or anything other than an arbitrary number pulled from thin air that hopefully will appeal to uninformed voters who always vote (D).
“Being entirely consistent with I-688 …”
Da, comrade context. Your cut-and-paster must have busted right in the middle of an out-of-context snip. Otherwise you wouldn’t be heaping praise on my opinion that the minimum wage is exactly where it should be at $9.47. Apparently even you have learned that!
Thanks for your admission and praise that $15/hr isn’t indexed to inflation or anything other than an arbitrary number …
As opposed to the rigorous scientific basis for I-688’s raising of the minimum wage from $4.90 to $6.50 over two years? Yet, you and Shift seem totally uninterested in describing all of the “damage” Shift claims was inflicted upon our economy by those horribly arbitrary numbers in I-688.
… that hopefully will appeal to uninformed voters who always vote (D).
Well, then, you’ll just have to show the disasterous results of our having enacted I-688. You’re right about uninformed voters: most of us just don’t see how the resultant fifteen-plus years of low inflation, low unemployment, and steady growth are very bad, truly bad, double-plus ungood things we never want to see again. You and Shift will just have to educate us voters on that point — or watch another minimum-wage increase pass by a massive statewide landslide, but with the Democrats getting credit for it this time.
Tensy, you have a screw loose if you believe that crap
Believe what, exactly? That our economy has suffered “economic damage” from the very high minimum wage we voters required from 1998 onwards? No, I don’t believe it at all. How about you show me I’m wrong?