California set to raise minimum wage to $10

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ALL CALIFORNIAN BUSINESSOWNERS MOVING TO TEXAS.

You got that right. Little by little, good jobs are being lost. Obviously California has one of the highest job creation numbers for being the biggest state, but jobs/person or the Job Creation Index is generally lower than the nation. Also, the jobs being added to California are generally low-wage and part-time. In fact, I think California is the state with the highest "underemployed" %.

You don't know what you are talking about. It is low skilled, low value added jobs that are being lost (or rather I should say no gains are being made). The tech industry isn't going anywhere. If anything it is expanding, and will never move to places like Texas, with the sole exception of Austin. The culture in Texas is not conducive to innovation. Also the biotech industry is strong in California and isn't going anywhere either. If you were involved in low skill manufacturing on the other hand, yeah maybe your job is at risk (if you didn't already lose it during the recession).

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Why do people seriously respond to bbag?

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The Democrats should raise the minimum wage and then index it to inflation. Of course they won't because they want a campaign issue.

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The Democrats should raise the minimum wage and then index it to inflation. Of course they won't because they want a campaign issue.

Eh, not necessarily.  If that were the case, then the Democrats probably wouldn't push so hard for gay marriage in their states.  The problem is most likely that there are too many Democratic legislators who feel uneasy about indexing the minimum wage to inflation.  Besides, right now would be an especially bad time to push for a federal policy since they can't even get the Tea Party House to support a modest increase.

Then they shouldn't even raise it and just index it to inflation. If the tea party retards don't go along, then they should put the indexing of tax rates to inflation on the line.