I wouldn’t be so sure about that. A lot of pretty progressive ballot initiatives have ended up losing when everyone thought they’d win, and the ballot initiative process has also been used to enact some pretty conservative stuff (e.g. constitutional amendment banning rent control in 1994).

The only problem I have with the $15/hr minimum wage is that it's a set number, which means that as inflation increases, the wage will stay at $15 until this whole battle is fought again in the coming decades to make it $20.

Don't make it $15, make it "a livable wage constantly adjusted for inflation".

That’s only true if you make under $15.

Because it’s literally designed to help Catholics over everyone else

Because separation of church and state

>guess it could encourage businesses to just close.

That's exactly it. Ironic that it's had the opposite effect and had people wanting to work on Sunday.

Anyway, it does kind of make sense from the religious perspective, because Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest where you don't work, so it's essentially the same as holiday pay. But that could also be considered discriminatory, since it only goes for the Christian day of rest. Also redundant, because Mass already has a day of rest law which requires at least 1 day off a week.

All the people calling it regressive to phase out Sunday pay are only looking at it from one extremely narrow angle.

I have 20/25% tints. Never an issue. I do know a guy though.

I wish

This was not a vote this was a legal thing. If this had gone on the ballot we would have had both but they knew $15 was inevitable so they took what they could from us on the way there

I feel like getting 1.5 on Sundays is so antiquated and too closely related to religion. Why should Sunday be a special pay day?

There is CMart, 99 Ranch, New York Mart, Kam Man Foods, a lot of Quincy.

Politics. Give and take, sometimes it works, and I think this was a fair compromise. This is an example of politics taking into account both sides, which is a good thing.

No, it's socialism, which is arguably worse because it's the same thing as communism, but Nazis were socialist.

Or something.

/s, just in case.

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I'm all for beating on Republicans any chance there is, christ knows they deserve it. But in this case, don't drink the kool-aid too much, Democrats in this state will fuck you just as hard if there is a dollar/vote behind it. And that's exactly what happened, and sycophants are more than happen to come out of the woodwork and place the blame squarely on Republicans, which just isn't true.

I have no idea, and I can't find any info after a quick google search. If someone knows otherwise, please correct me.

Regardless, why did MA residents have to give up time and a half, just to get what other states got? What did other states' residents give up (hint: we all already know the answer to this question)?

But isn't that <in my scariest, deepest voice> COMMUNISM?

/s

I think snowpack is better to prevent drought than rain though. It’s good to have snow melting throughout the spring, instead of just dumping rain for a few months and then going back to being dry. I could be wrong though, I’m trying to reach far back in my memory to high school science class.

Yes all 8 republicans in the MA legislature did this.

How many states have time and a half on Sunday, and what is the min wage there?

Always compromise for capitalism but not for the worker. Politicians cave again.

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With what money??? You started this life in debt... and you want more???? Lol