City Council Urged to Adopt $75,000 Living
Wage
Politicians tell us how hard it is to live
on their salaries so they must keep raising them. Therefore, they
shouldn't
be so stingy when setting the "living wage" this week. The City Council should
decree that not only firms doing
business with the city but all city employees must be paid at least what
councilmembers receive, $75,000. Yet,
even at $75,000 it still won't be enough to buy the median priced house in San
Diego. But it will
go a long way
towards granting everybody the right to a decent wage and the right to an
affordable house.
San Diego could be the model for the United Nations which also states that
everyone has a right to housing
and
a living wage. Only the United Nations are so stupid, our politicians maintain
all that's needed to eliminate poverty
around the world, is to decree higher wages. (Of course, the reason politicians
love to grant the "right"
to housing
and the "right" to a living wage is because rights are a lot cheaper than
actually providing wagesand housing).
Many businessmen support the living wage increase in San Diego because they
already pay their employees more,
and it eliminates competition from lower cost competitors who provide cheaper
goods and services to low-income consumers. The very consumers politicians claim to help. Unions love the
living wage increase because it means
all higher skilled union members up the wage ladder will get successively higher
wages. Who knows, perhaps this
San Diego City Council idea can truly end world poverty. Just pass a law!
Permission granted to quote or forward.
Fred
Schnaubelt
