I live in Washington State, which is governed (ruled?) by a heavily DemocRat legislature and ruled by a far-Left DemocRat Dictator (who has been ruling by decree since March of 2020). In my legislative district, both senators and “representatives” are, of course, DemocRats. Yesterday in the mail, I received a “2022 Session Report” from one of my so-called “representatives”, who definitely does not represent me.
His 2022 session report glowingly referred to all the wonderful laws passed by the legislature and signed into law by our Dictator. Within this report, he described a new law that I had never heard about, and would probably not even know about if I had not read his report. It seems that our very well-intentioned DemocRats decided that it was grossly unfair for disabled Washingtonians in some situations to be paid a special “sub-minimum” wage, for which there have been provisions in state law for decades. So, in their concern for the working disabled of our state, they repealed that sub-minimum wage. Now, all employers of disabled employees will be subject to the same very high minimum wage that all of the state is now subject to ($14.49 per hour for the state, higher in Seattle). Here is his statement.
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