How nice of Emory Cole to fill the Sunday Herald on Nov. 30 with a pile of rotting propaganda against the minimum wage increase to $15 and hour (“Wage increase will drive up costs for all”) .
It’s not a bit surprising that a former politician would try to distort and deceive people in this way. If the minimum wage that I worked under in the 1970s had increased like the price of gas, housing, and food, etc. then the minimum wage today should be about $16.70 an hour.
The fact that the minimum wage has not been adjusted for increases in the cost of living makes his argument null and void. I and many people like me will gladly pay 75 cents more for a restaurant meal (it’s not 62 percent as Cole falsely proclaims) if it means the workers get a decent wage.
But Scrooges like Cole rant and rage against common sense and cry that the sky will surely fall if the $15 an hour wage spreads across the country. The extra wages mean people spend more money and pay more taxes into the economy (which Cole is against).
I can’t believe the Herald would print such a pathetic and distorted rant; you don’t have enough space here for me to comment on all of his baseless drivel.
Ted Neff
Edmonds
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