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$15 An Hour Minimum Wage Vetoed By Democratic Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh
« on: March 30, 2017, 07:28:13 am »
On Monday, Baltimore’s city council, which is composed of 15 Democrats, voted 11-3 to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022, local NBC affiliate WBAL 11 reports. One city council member did not vote.

Despite popular support among the city council and many Baltimore voters for the $15 minimum wage, Democratic Mayor Catherine Pugh vetoed the minimum wage bill.

The veto came as a shock to the bill’s supporters, especially since Pugh had pledged to support a minimum wage increase to $15 an hour when she campaigned to become mayor.

“This is an impromptu response because we all were taken by surprise,” said councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, a cosponsor of the $15 minimum wage bill. “Shame, shame on letting the poverty that we have lived with shamefully for decades of the working poor continue on.”

Clarke and others had seen the bill as a means of addressing the economic hardship suffered by many of Baltimore’s residents, particularly the working poor.

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Re: $15 An Hour Minimum Wage Vetoed By Democratic Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2017, 11:08:20 am »
A Democrat that accepts economic reality?

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Re: $15 An Hour Minimum Wage Vetoed By Democratic Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2017, 11:35:59 am »
Left the Baltimore area in 2002 and so did many other taxpayers.  Sought refuge in the last remaining red area near Frederick.  Didn't take long for the Montgomery County clowns who ruined that area with disastrous liberal policies to billed over into Frederick and Washington County.  Fled the People's Republic of Maryland for good in 2006.
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Re: $15 An Hour Minimum Wage Vetoed By Democratic Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2017, 11:51:28 am »
No $15 an hour, but there is space to riot and destroy
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Re: $15 An Hour Minimum Wage Vetoed By Democratic Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2017, 12:42:47 pm »
If you ever have the chance, and just for fun, ask a $15 minimum wage supporter where the business is going to get the extra money from.

Everything wrong with our educational system will shortly be revealed.
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Re: $15 An Hour Minimum Wage Vetoed By Democratic Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2017, 02:07:35 pm »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on March 30, 2017, 12:42:47 pm
If you ever have the chance, and just for fun, ask a $15 minimum wage supporter where the business is going to get the extra money from.

Everything wrong with our educational system will shortly be revealed.

I've heard their arguments

You're right
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