SEATTLE – This is just crazy, how will small businesses pay? What sort of increase will the consumer pay? The Seattle City Council unanimously passed an ordinance that increases the minimum wage in the city to $15,…. which would make it the highest in the nation.
The issue has dominated politics in the liberal municipality for months, and a boisterous crowd of mostly labor activists packed the Council chambers for the vote. Mayor Ed Murray, who was elected last year, had promised in his campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. A newly-elected socialist City Council member had pushed the idea as well.