Just as in Seattle when they mandated a $15 min. wage and businesses moved outside the city limits. The same will happen in Portlandia. Who will this hurt? All the low income families that work at Walmart etc. who now will face either having to find new jobs or longer more expensive commutes. The other unintended consequences will of course be retail shoppers facing longer drives to these store will simply turn to Amazon (another of those mega corporations they seem to love to hate) and other home delivery services further accelerating the destruction of brick and mortar stores and consequently depriving the city of jobs, sales tax, real estate tax and business license revenue. The added impact of this will be the deterioration of local neighborhoods that patronize these smaller business that also provide local entry level jobs.
This is quite predictably what happens when idiot leftists legislate on the basis of emotion rather than reason and basic math.
The idiots that keep voting in those Liberal idiots over in Portlandistan deserve every miserable repercussion they get in return.
ReplyDeleteI went to highschool in a little town south of Portland and still have friends there. The guy who was widly considered the smartest kid in our class lives in Portland now and it dismays me that he votes for this crap. Just goes to show I guess that there can be a vast gulf between being smart and being intelligent.
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