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THevil30 t1_j5a57fh wrote

Reply to comment by ak47workaccnt in Why did Sunday pay go away? by A_Man_Who_Writes

I mean, yes? I’d be totally down to peg the minimum wage to inflation. But adding time and a half on Sundays is def not the way to deal with it.

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A_Man_Who_Writes OP t1_j5abntp wrote

But we all know that minimum wage is going to be stuck at 15 for years.

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THevil30 t1_j5adujd wrote

The other point here is what was possible at the time. You have to remember that while we are a pretty progressive state overall we still elected Charlie Baker twice and would have done so again had he run. There is a level of “too progressive” at which point the average MA voter does get annoyed. The bargain that was struck was what could pass, and all in all it was a good bargain and one of the highest minimum wage increases in the country.

At the end of the day the politicians have to account for the will of the voters, and in MA we have a pretty good progressive base. But there are limits. This was a good deal, I’ll take the W.

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