Washington: Seattle’s Minimum Wage Increase Claims Its First Victim

“Minimum wage” is “gender pay gap” or “safe and effective vaccine” tier nonsense.

Minimum wage is an elitist agenda to destroy all forms of small competition. This is why Jeff Bezos funded AOC to go out and demand a $15 national minimum wage.

These people claim they’re against the billionaires and the big corporations, while forcing people to take Pfizer products and destroying small businesses.

How do these people support these things without looking at any real data at all?

The Post Millennial:

Seattle’s minimum wage rose higher than $20 per hour on New Year’s Day, much too costly for some business owners, and the law has now claimed its first business casualty.

The minimum wage for all Seattle employees, regardless of business size, jumped to $20.76 on January 1. In 2024, if a worker earned at least $2.72 per hour in medical benefits or tips, the business only had to pay its employees $17.25 per hour. But now, for those businesses that featured tips, the change to the minimum wage was a 20 percent increase. Seattle’s increase is $4 more than Washington State’s minimum wage requirement.

Corina Luckenbach, owner of the Bebop Waffle Shop in West Seattle told Fox 13, “This is financially just not going to make sense anymore. Because, just for me, the increase would cost me $32,000 more dollars a year.”


The worst thing about this is “queer people” losing a “safe space”

Luckenbach has operated the business for over a decade but on Monday closed her doors permanently. She told the outlet she supports paying employees more but cannot afford it, adding, “I’ve cried every day.”

“Especially after the election, I think the hardest thing for me to close has been taking away a safe place for people,” she said. “The stories of what it meant to people to come in and feel safe and feel welcomed, I just didn’t know. I didn’t know how much I affected people, and it’s been really beautiful and cool to find that out.”

We have decades’ worth of data on this minimum wage scam.

The reason wages are lower than the cost of living in America is due to immigration and off-shoring.

Maybe now that Donald Trump is the race-replacer-in-chief, leftists can start talking about how this is not good for the people that live here?