The House of Delegates voted 87-47 on Monday, the final day of the assembly's 90-day session, to concur with Senate changes to the bill. The Senate passed the same bill on Saturday by a 34-13 vote.
Under the bill, the minimum wage would rise from $7.25 to $8 an hour on Jan. 1, 2015; to $8.25 on July 1, 2015; to $8.75 on July 1, 2016; to $9.25 on July 1, 2017; and to $10.10 on July 1, 2018.
Opponents, mostly Republicans, said the bill would force existing Maryland businesses to lay off workers.
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24 comments:
will i get a 40% increase also?
Why don't they also pass a law that any business that hires employees must be guaranteed a 40% increase in profits? Or any profit at all?
No relief for middle income Americans, taking the working class down another notch and further making the gap between poverty and the rich wider.
when all done this just increased our payroll approx. $40,000
Could you or they pic a more Naziesque photo? Brown looks like a well trained dog.
O'Mally " We will increase production and the masses will prosper, eh comrades?"
Brown " Da Mine furor"
1:56 - so you'll have to lay off two people...pick two democrats (look for Obama / O'Malley stickers in the parking lot) and tell them they're getting what they voted for!
Everyone of you except 205 are idiots! Seriously. How can your comments be justified?
So what prices inflate.been so for years. Soon that 10 bucks will be the same as seven by the time you greedy bastards mark up the world.stfu with your crying! Smh. Sometimes this site sickens me.
Im sure by then there will be more tax hikes and new types of taxes on businesses.
2:16 is very ill thank God that moron has Obamacare
So 2:16 raising wages is the solution to better buying power? NOT...the solution is to lower inflation.so a dollars goes further..democrats are just plain stupid
2:16 So what makes you happy? Socialism? If so you should be estatic with your buddy 0. Your motivation should be to raise your wage through merit. Raising the minimum wage just cost the person giving you a job more expenses to pay with out more money coming in to pay you. Somebody's got to get laid off. And then your buddy 0 is going to raise the taxes on your employer, then a couple more got to get laid off. Socialism is not the answer to your properity. Quite the opposite. One day you may wake up and see that.
Hey I'm keeping my welfare, free cell phone and section eight housing. $10.10 an hour isn't worth it. I can stay home and enjoy my soon to be legal pot and watch TV While you all work for peanuts. I don't even need to obtain a degree. Oh and thanks for free healthcare. I'm going to continue to vote democrat and I will continue to do better then the working class smuck.
This is so crazy....$7.25 an hour is plenty!
Gee that looks like a union negotiation on wage in crease every 6 months!!! that right there are in the pockets of the demorats
4:15 Cool!
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them". V.I.Lenin
Government needs to stay out of our lives and let the marketplace decide an individuals worth. The answer to higher wages is to make yourself more valuable to employers by education and productivity. Period.
All Government programs do is turn people into beggars. And democratic voters because they can't do without the scraps that they get used to.
Chump change and pitiful. Tax increases, insurance and the economic increases of food, clothing, shelter, heating, gas and etc will eat up the chump change every year. This is pitiful. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer.
Ohhhhhhh.. An employee who gets $3more per hour will pay additional taxes on that $3. Pretty cool way to raise taxes. I wonder if Brown even realizes this yet?
Time to raise my rents…they get mo money, I charge more money!
4:15 - you're the perfect example of what is wrong with more than half of this country....
No ethics, no morals, gaming the system, lazy - but you do have the knowledge of how to live off the government....you should truly be ashamed of yourself!
More importantly - everyone else should ostracize you for your attitude and actions!
$10.15 per hr, insurance subsidy, housing subsidy, free phone, and I only need a HS degree? No, I don't even need a HS degree? No, I don't even have to be a US or MD citizen? I can even get free money for college, and not ever think about graduation? The only thing I have to do is pull the D lever? What a Country we live in!
7:24, I don't care, because you can't change crap.
"Soon that 10 bucks will be the same as seven by the time you greedy bastards mark up the world."
Actually, pinhead, you may have stumbled over something here. The NEW minimum wage will have the same buying power as the OLD minimum wage in no time. Only difference will be for people like you - if you weren't worth hiring for $7, you sure won't be worth employing for $10.
"$10.10 an hour isn't worth it. I can stay home and enjoy my soon to be legal pot and watch TV While you all work for peanuts"
I have a grudging respect for that statement, 4:15. You are a parasite and you admit it. The whole entitlement system of earned income credit, welfare, disability, EBT, etc is a joke. The truly needy and disabled seldom get the help that they need. But those who know how to manipulate the system have hit the jackpot. At least you understand that, as a person, you are of no value to society and are a drain on resources confiscated from those who do serve a purpose.
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