By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-03 22:47:46 | Updated at 2025-01-08 11:29:59
4 days ago
Rep. Pramila Jayapal celebrates massive minimum-wage hike in Seattle and gets nailed with seething backlash
Blaze News ^ | January 03, 2025
Posted on 01/03/2025 2:21:37 PM PST by george76
Businesses are already shutting down over the new law. Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington state celebrated the passage of a massive minimum-wage hike in the city of Seattle, but many on social media responded with ridicule and mockery.
The far-left government in Seattle jacked up the minimum wage on all businesses beginning the first of January. Some businesses are already shutting down after calculating that the law would force them into insolvency.
'Leftists are blocking opportunity. Again. It's what you authoritarian thugs do best.'
"Yesterday, Seattle’s minimum wage officially rose to $20.76 per hour — one of the highest minimum wages in the country!" she wrote. "I’m so proud to represent a city that puts workers first, and I’ll keep fighting to ensure we finally pass a minimum wage increase nationwide."
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Congrats, Pramila. You’ve just guaranteed that small businesses in Seattle will be forced to close, jobs will be lost, and prices will skyrocket. Raising wages without understanding the economy isn’t helping workers, it’s hurting them
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Perfect way to put small businesses out of business and raise unemployment and raise prices of everything. You idiot libs think your stupid policies happen in a vacuum. It's a snowball effect of destruction
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Corina Luckenbach, a self-identified queer business owner, told KCPQ-TV that she had to close down Bebop Waffle Shop over the increase in minimum wage, which she supported in theory.
"This is financially just not going to make sense
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California passed a similar minimum-wage law meant to increase wages for fast-food workers, but some businesses have responded by firing employees and others have shut down completely.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bangladesh; jayapal; pramila; pramilajayapal
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1 posted on 01/03/2025 2:21:37 PM PST by george76
To: george76
Everything leftists touch is destroyed.
2 posted on 01/03/2025 2:24:59 PM PST by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
To: george76
Corina Luckenbach, a self-identified queer business owner, told KCPQ-TV that she had to close down Bebop Waffle Shop over the increase in minimum wage, which she supported in theory. "This is financially just not going to make sense
Whoosie-daisy! Those darn red pills show up at the most inconvenient times!
3 posted on 01/03/2025 2:25:14 PM PST by workerbee
To: george76
Nice going Jayapal. The ridiculous minimum wage hike is
causing self-identified queer business owners to go out
of business.
How could you even think of celebrating?
To: george76
In my smallish town Walmart starts workers ar $21.00/hr and Target has a starting wage of $22.00/hr.
It’s easy to find a job for $18.00+ here...
It’s the free market that these ‘Progressives’ just cannot comprehend nor understand...
5 posted on 01/03/2025 2:31:46 PM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
To: workerbee
The only backlash that matters-you figure it out.
6 posted on 01/03/2025 2:32:11 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
To: george76
I worked in So. Seattle over 20 years.
I’m a graduate of a Seattle university.
Some of the stupidest people in the USA live in Seattle.
I lived in North Bend, 32 miles east of Seattle.
Taxes too high? just drive across the lake and do Bellevue or Issaqua.
Drive south to the Fife/Tacoma area.
Don’t buy anything in Seattle.
7 posted on 01/03/2025 2:36:56 PM PST by rellic (no such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
To: george76
> “This is financially just not going to make sense.” <
Poor lady. She doesn’t understand that communism isn’t supposed to make sense. It’s all about power and control.
8 posted on 01/03/2025 2:39:47 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again)
To: Rocco DiPippo
And why are Democrat women so fugly.
If I had seen Jayapal as a teenager, I might have gone into the priesthood.
And I'm not even Catholic.
9 posted on 01/03/2025 2:42:29 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Emerson paraphrased, "If you strike at the king, don't fail." The Democrats failed. )
To: george76
California passed a similar minimum-wage law meant to increase wages for fast-food workers, but some businesses have responded by firing employees and others have shut down completely
Unless you worked at Panera. Then the owner's friendship with the governor will keep your wages low. (I just looked it up and Panera said they would pay the higher minimum wage. I guess public shaming of them and their dirty deal worked.)
10 posted on 01/03/2025 2:47:35 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Now unburdened by the Biden/Harris administration that has been.)
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