My LTE Against Minimum Wage Article Makes Examiner

Dear Everyone;

The Examiner in its Aug. 10 issue had an article about employers not upgrading to the new higher minimum wage law in San Francisco. I wrote a rebuttal which was printed today.

Examiner Article "Waging Silence " 8/10:

http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/081004n_minimumwage

My LTE from Letters To Editor 8/12:

http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/081204op_letters

Ron Getty
SF Libertarian

Congratulations, Ron! By the way, could you point me to a source for the following statistics from your letter?

"When you have a city payroll budget providing an average of $80,000 a year in pay and benefits when the private sector is $50,000, you have a problem. When you have 27,000 city employees in a city the size of San Francisco you have a problem."

  These are some useful stats that I might like to use sometime.

Yours in liberty,
        <<< Starchild >>>

P.S. - Someone tells me that my letter on capping city salaries was published in the Bay Times, bringing the total of outlets that printed it to three.

Dear Everyone;

The Examiner in its Aug. 10 issue had an article about employers not upgrading to the new higher minimum wage law in San Francisco. I wrote a rebuttal which was printed today.

Examiner Article "Waging Silence " 8/10:

http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/081004n_minimumwage

My LTE from Letters To Editor 8/12:

http://www.examiner.com/article/index.cfm/i/081204op_letters

Ron Getty
SF Libertarian

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Dear Starchild;

The $80,000 a year statistics came from Mike Denny who had the figures from a numbers cruncher who did the the work up from the City budget. Maybe Kai or is it Tai??? I do not remember the timing but it was during Mike's campaign. Or when he presented a proposal to a City commission on cutting spending. The exact figures are slightly higher. Try Mike for the exact figures.

Ron getty
SF Libertarian

Starchild <sfdreamer@...> wrote:
Congratulations, Ron! By the way, could you point me to a source for
the following statistics from your letter?

"When you have a city payroll budget providing an average of $80,000 a
year in pay and benefits when the private sector is $50,000, you have a
problem. When you have 27,000 city employees in a city the size of San
Francisco you have a problem."

These are some useful stats that I might like to use sometime.

Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>

P.S. - Someone tells me that my letter on capping city salaries was
published in the Bay Times, bringing the total of outlets that printed
it to three.