Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele on Wednesday made good on his threat to veto a “living wage” ordinance requiring an $11.32 minimum hourly pay for county workers and employees of certain county contractors.
Abele urged the County Board to sustain the veto, noting a warning from the county comptroller saying the wage ordinance could jeopardize the county’s Family Care program, which employs some 2,400 low-wage workers.
The care program provides in-home services to frail elderly and disabled people.
Additional costs to the Family Care program could total more than $28 million through 2019, Abele said in his veto message, citing worst-case figures provided by Comptroller Scott Manske.
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Zach, thanks. Sorry Mr. Abele doesn’t understand that capitalism runs on sales. The real “job creators” are consumers with money to spend.
If he wanted to veto it, because the anti-government wing nuts running state government won’t end the “job-killing-government-regulations” against marijuana, that would play, but he won’t even do that.
My fear is that his billionaire Dad’s portfolio has too much exposure to Big Pharma, which would be the most hurt by
legalization.
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2012/04/27/the-smoke-and-mirrors-of-the-legalization-debate/
First place the tax revenue should go is to protect the jobs, pay, and benefits of law enforcement. They shouldn’t be penalized for lousy federal policies. There’s always federal money available to arrest somebody for smoking pot, but to fund the machinery of law enforcement, nope.
“Fugitives Next Door”
http://www.usatoday.com/longform/news/nation/2014/03/11/fugitives-next-door/6262719/?AID=10709313&PID=4003003&SID=1u6pnum1hhcoq
I would never encourage anyone, who did not already have a serious illness, to use it, but the prohibition against alcohol didn’t work either.
Legalizing pot in the Badger state won’t solve all the problems of funding state and local governments, but it’s the low hanging fruit. If the laws were properly written, it would be an immediate and huge boost to urban agriculture and it would put fewer folks in jail.
Even the 700 Club’s Pat Robertson wants it made legal: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pat-robertson-marijuana-should-be-legal/
What’s Mr. Abele doing to bring thousands of commercial fishing jobs back to Lake Michigan? “The Decline of a Once-Great Fishery” http://www.jsonline.com/news/127244963.html Doesn’t he understand that it’s the “narrow tax base,” that’s crowding his budgets? More family-supporting jobs, means county government can afford to pay its workers and contractors a better wage, “a rising tide floats all boats.”
If Mr. Abele is concerned about county budgets, why isn’t he talking about the outsourcing of the military-industrial complex “Probe finds ‘flood’ of fake military parts from China in U.S. equipment?”
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/22/probe-finds-flood-of-fake-military-parts-from-china-in-u-s-equipment/
There is no reason why any part of that supply chain should be outside the U.S. A lot of those manufacturing jobs used to be in Wisconsin. Why isn’t Mr. Abele talking about that?