OREGON MINIMUM WAGE SET AT $14.75 AFTER GOVERNOR SIGNED THE BILL AMIDST OPPOSITION’S DEFIANCE

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  1. Daweez04

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    In places where the minimum wage has gone up, some employees are asking for reduced hours just so they can keep their state benefits. They will be the first ones to lose their jobs, and they obviously have no drive to get off their dependence from the government. So now they drain our social programs even more.

    I went to college, worked a crap job to pay the bills. After graduating I got a internship that paid $12, worked my way up to get hired on as a contractor at $18, then finally got hired on full time with a decent salary. At 27 I bought my house, 8 months later got laid off in a labor force reduction. Once again took temp jobs to pay the bills, rented out a bedroom in my house to help with the mortgage and eventually got hired on at my current company. It has been a crazy 3 years, but it made me realize that life isn't easy. Being unemployed sucked, but I got through it.

    I have no remorse of people who just give up and stop trying. If you are trying to live on minimum wage, you have made some pretty crappy decisions in your life. It really isn't that hard to find a job that pays more than that if you have any kind of work ethic or skills.
     
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    this raises everyone that falls under $14.75, not just minimum wage workers. it seems like thats being missed by most people.
     
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    The point is Denny, it's against the law to be here illegally; and I am sure many of them do not pay taxes but use the provided infrastructure and services. Which is why I support Trumps immigration reform. Sorry man, but we just have differing opinions here. :)
     
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    give them all social security numbers. easy peasy.
     
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    Smoking pot is illegal. Jaywalking is illegal. Throw everyone in jail?

    The severity of the "crime" matters, and this is not a severe "crime" at all.
     
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    Not where I live!
     
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    It's illegal in all 50 states. Federal law trumps state law, don't you know.

    That the feds choose not to pursue it makes my point. There are severities of crimes - some so puny it isn't even pursuing.

    I can see why jaywalking should be still on the books, if not but rarely used. If someone jaywalks and causes a 10 car accident, he's basically at fault and the crime does matter in that case.
     
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    It's legal here...and law and trump should never be used together in a sentence please
     
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    I concluded a few years ago that my greatness might be too much for the world, thus I live an introverted life style and drink a lot of beer, the wall is pretty much there, metaphorically speaking.
     
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    Great post dude! Made my day!
     
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    except no payola
     
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    What really sucks are all the after school jobs that small business owners had for kids to help them out. I know multiple people that would hire a kid to come in, sweep the shop, do little odds and ends that they really don't need to hire someone for, but they want to do their part on getting kids that want to work, jobs. Well, at $14+ an hour, that is a luxury they have said they will probably cut. Now this generation that thinks they are owed something and poor work ethic will suffer even more. Sad.
     
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    Raising the minimum wage over a stretched out period is not going to work..inflation will have gone up by then to the point that it doesn't matter...rent is already far to high...minimum eage should go up immediately with a cap on inflation that allows for a period of adjustment...the state is basically allowing us to come up for air momentairly before we are dragged back down below the water to drown
     
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    I can't find a form to apply for the back fill when the owner of the business is making less that 15 bucks an hour.
    Did Washington and Oregon both leave this undone?
     
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    How much do you feel you're owed?
     
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    http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/or...positions-defiance.297050/page-7#post-3844940

    I wasn't thinking about me. These restaurant owners doing 700k of business, making 28k a year. I would guess they are make about 9.33 and hour. Probably not that much when they begin paying 15 bucks for help. I wonder how many will do it? When I was wheat farming, I only made about 10 bucks and hour but I had other reason for doing it. Long tale there but it is sort of
    difficult to image the other reasons thing applying to the restaurants, so I don't know why they would do it.
     
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    It's perhaps interesting that in that article, none of the closing restaurants cited wages as the reason they were closing. The only one who talked about wages was the restaurant lobbyist.

    So, y'know, maybe his figures are a bit misleading.

    barfo
     
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    Maybe you are on it! Perhaps the guy was lying, and the owners will benefit greatly by this law. Geez wouldn't it be wonderful if they began paying all the help 20 buck because it helps their profit
    so much. Good detective work sir!
     
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