Muratsuchi Voted to Force the Minimum Wage

After the Affordable Care Act seminar on Tuesday Morning (Sept. 24), I spoke with Assemblyman Muratsuchi privately.

I asked him first about the minimum wage increase which Governor Brown just signed into law.

I thought that the Assemblyman had voted against the bill.

He acknowledged that he voted against the first  version of the bill because minimum wage increases would have risen with inflation if the original language of the bill was not changed.

After the provision tying wage increases to inflation was removed, Muratsuchi supported the $!0 minimum wage increase.

I asked the Assemblyman if he was aware of the widespread opposition to minimum wage increases.

He did meet with representatives of the business community at the Red Car in downtown Torrance.

Still, Muratsuchi supported the wage increase because the wage had not been increased since 2008.

The staggering lack of economic understanding from our legislators cannot be underestimated.

Or rather, the political pandering which overcomes common sense cannot be ignored.

There is no policy more likely to create unemployment (which rose in the state of California this week) than a minimum wage increase.

The government cannot create wealth, the government cannot provide funding, and forcing the rise in the minimum wage creates another tax on already struggling small businesses, and even the larger ones, in the state of California.

Assemblyman Muratsuchi might want to explain to local residents why has sided with the Democrats in Sacramento against the small business owners, the wage earners, and the future (yet dwindling) work force in the South Bay.