Idaho legislature prepared to ban local minimum wage hikes

[jmowreader]

http://www.ktvb.com/news/local/capitol-watch/minimum-wage-ban-moves-forward-in-idaho-legislature/44150804

Here is the sorry-ass thing in its entirety:

https://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2016/H0463.pdf

What our Repuke-dominated legislature is attempting to do is to prohibit any city from raising the minimum wage on its own, and also prohibit any ballot initiative aimed at raising the minimum wage.

[KamaAina]

1. Smart ALECs.

Any time you see a bunch of states going down the same right-wing road (I believe Oklahoma is doing this also), you know ALEC (and thus the Kochs) is involved.

[virgogal]

2. The Kochs manipulate,Soros manipulates. That's politics in the USA.

[saturnsring]

3. what is soros manipulating? and how does it compare to koch's meddling?

[virgogal]

7. They both fund orgs that promote their agendas.

There is an abundance of info available on these gentlemen.

Easily researched.

[NYC Liberal]

4. I thought Repugs were all for small/local government.

[jmowreader]

5. Until they're against it, they are

[IDemo]

6. Another typical year here

They are also dealing with getting evolution and climate change accepted into science standards, allowing faith healing as child health care and the ongoing battle against civil rights protections for LGBT.