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    3 troubling trends in Seattle pose potentially catastrophic economic ramifications

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    3 troubling trends in Seattle pose potentially catastrophic economic ramifications

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    First, ignoring the concerns of the business community, Seattle’s progressive City Council passed an unwise law forcing delivery platforms like DoorDash and Uber Eats to pay delivery drivers over $26 per hour. 

    Dubbed the "PayUp" ordinance, that mandate translates to roughly a $60,000 annual salary, far exceeding the starting salaries of critical workers like EMTs, whose average wage in Washington state is around $24 per hour. 

    Why should some Uber delivery  driver make more than those who pay thousands for an education to make less?!

     

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    Data from the Washington Alliance for Innovation and Independent Work further showed Seattle businesses that rely on third-party delivery apps have lost more than $28 million in revenue to date - a number that rises every day the PayUp law remains on the books. 

    Actions have consequences!

     

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    A second disturbing trend percolating in Seattle is the effort to prevent measures to correct the PayUp ordinance’s consequences. Instead, the city’s activist City Council continues to pull every lever and bend every rule to maintain control and implement its agenda.  

    :wtf1:

     

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    Third but not least, King County, in whose jurisdiction Seattle falls, raised their minimum wage to a nationwide high of $20.29. Washington already had the highest minimum wage requirement at $16.28, but that was insufficient for the activists who run Seattle’s local government. The compromise bill that would reform the delivery superwage also sets the new wage at a minimum of $19.97 an hour. 

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    What should happen with Blair London?

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    10 hours ago, CEDAvsFan said:

    Blair's cooperation in the final two episodes of the season would keep her from getting that. She did a lot of bad and it f**ked up a lot of people, but she did cooperate and helped Nolan and the others. It was to save her own a**, yeah, but that counts in the judicial system. I sense Blair getting, maybe, a decade with chance of early release after half of that time's served--if she doesn't get knocked off behind bars.

     

     

     

    Blair ratted out powerful people. She'll be dead in a year.

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