California voters have rejected Prop 32, which would have raised the state’s minimum wage from $16 to $18.
With 100% of the ballots tallied, the measure was rejected by a 0.8% margin (50.8 - 49.2), according to the California Secretary of State’s office. The total vote difference for the proposition was 234,146.
Work in the trades. You’ll see a fuck ton of people who are against minimum wage going up.
I work in the trades, in a deeply red state.
There are a few against it but for the most part people I work with support a minimum wage raise.
I work with some shitty people but don’t put that evil on us.
I’m sure they say a lot of things, but when it comes down to it, they likely vote for people who are fighting against raising the minimum wage. And if it came down to a ballot initiative, they would vote against it.
Why?
It increases the cost of living for everything else.
Yes, I know that the cost of living is going up regardless, but that is their answer.
That sounds a lot like “I make more than them and if they get a raise I won’t”. The cost of living has nothing to do with that lol
Yes, that’s exactly what it is
But thst doesn’t happen when they have raised the minimum wage in other places. Why do they think that?
Propaganda from the ruling class.
Yes
this has been disproven time and time again and is just propaganda you are parroting.
… Why?
It’s half the low that cost of living is tied to it, and half that they don’t want people who work “less hard” to make as much money as they do.