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Originally Posted by saillias
Could've sworn I read articles from a thread here about how it, must've been somewhere else.
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No, you definitely read it here. A bunch of ding dongs kept re-posting the same blog-post hosted on Forbes.com (and written by a UKIP supporter and staunch free-market capitalist) and another article written by a right-wing think-tank about how restaurant owners were shutting down because of the new minimum wage. The problem being that those same restaurant owners denied ever saying any of that in an actual piece of journalism written by the Seattle Times, and the other two posts were written well before the implementation of the new minimum wage (which also still hasn't happened yet). Both posts also ignored that there had been an increase in applications for either new business licenses or restaurant licenses, which obviously you can't tie to the minimum wage, but if you're going to make the argument at least get your facts straight.
The unfortunate thing is, if you google "Seattle minimum wage," you get the right-wing propaganda pieces. You actually have to do a bit of digging for the Times article. In conclusion, fact check your sources, people!