Now That’s What I Call Irony
The increase in the minimum wage goes into effect today. It goes from $5.15 to $5.85 an hour. The purpose of raising the minimum wage is to put more cash in the pockets of low-paid, and usually low-skilled, workers. Someone should have told that to the City-County Council last night as they passed the public safety tax increase, because now the people who can least afford it will have 65 percent more money taken out of their wages. And the people who did it are the ones who yell the loudest about the poor and disenfranchised. With friends like these…well, you know the rest.
