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Rush Limbaugh - Timeless Wisdom

Rush Limbaugh January 2nd 2019

Rush Limbaugh - Timeless Wisdom

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4.05.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Less than a month ago, Washington voters approved a big minimum wage increase for people who get tips as part of their income.

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0:00.0

Washington District of Columbia is as liberal as any American city.

0:03.9

In 2016, they voted for Hillary 91 to 4 just to give you an idea.

0:07.7

I mean, it's a liberal paradise supposedly.

0:11.2

So this news is amusing. Less than a month ago,

0:14.2

Washington voters approved a big minimum wage increase for people who get tips as part of their

0:20.1

income. The vote guaranteed a minimum wage of 15 bucks an hour by 2026 by which time a lot of

0:25.6

residents will have died. But the D.C. City Council has decided the voters were wrong.

0:30.8

You see, in the poorest areas, the unemployment rates over 9%, that's way worse than the rest of

0:35.0

the country. So the City Council liberals, they looked at what happened to Seattle. They raised

0:39.6

a minimum wage, a bunch of restaurants closed, a bunch of jobs were lost. So the Washington City Council

0:44.8

decided they didn't want to have any jobs lost. It's bad enough as it is. So less than a month

0:50.7

after it was approved, these liberals are going to kill the minimum wage increase.

0:55.6

They'd rather have jobs, it'd rather people working than talking points.

0:59.5

It doesn't happen often, sometimes even liberals have to face reality. But I predict they'll

1:04.5

screw this up somehow because they never get it right in the end.

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