California voters have rejected Prop 32, which would have raised the state’s minimum wage from $16 to $18.
With 100% of the ballots tallied, the measure was rejected by a 0.8% margin (50.8 - 49.2), according to the California Secretary of State’s office. The total vote difference for the proposition was 234,146.
What a poorly written headline (not by OP). It makes it sound like rejecting the proposition will raise minimum wage by $2, when that’s what the proposition would have done. Technically correct, using the less-common usage of a comma to include a second subject. But if that’s not intentional and malicious, ABC News has a terrible editor…
Why would anyone vote against it?
Maybe it was written by the same person who wrote the title of this Post? Lol
Because “back in my day” isn’t just Grandpa rambling. It’s also adults who resent their upbringing but are stupid enough to pass it on. First to their kids, and now to wage earners.
Also people can be tricked by propaganda and lies pretty easily.
Work in the trades. You’ll see a fuck ton of people who are against minimum wage going up.
I work in the trades, in a deeply red state.
There are a few against it but for the most part people I work with support a minimum wage raise.
I work with some shitty people but don’t put that evil on us.
I’m sure they say a lot of things, but when it comes down to it, they likely vote for people who are fighting against raising the minimum wage. And if it came down to a ballot initiative, they would vote against it.
Why?
It increases the cost of living for everything else.
Yes, I know that the cost of living is going up regardless, but that is their answer.
That sounds a lot like “I make more than them and if they get a raise I won’t”. The cost of living has nothing to do with that lol
Yes, that’s exactly what it is
But thst doesn’t happen when they have raised the minimum wage in other places. Why do they think that?
Propaganda from the ruling class.
Yes
this has been disproven time and time again and is just propaganda you are parroting.
… Why?
It’s half the low that cost of living is tied to it, and half that they don’t want people who work “less hard” to make as much money as they do.
That’s often the reason. We had some bullshit in my State during the election. It was worded in a way that despite being someone who enjoys doing the writing, I still felt like I had to look it up.
Kaepora Gaebora can kiss my shiny metal ass, dammit.
It was in fact very badly written, with stuff like wage changes taking effect “immediately” (in practice 5 days after vote counts are certified).
Is there a place for posting titles that say the opposite of what they mean? Like the “Don’t Dead, Open Inside”. That comma ruins it. I can only assume they edited some words out of the one line without reading the result.
