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I don't know if WallyPark is paying their workers correctly, but I know they are collecting an extra fee to cover that wage, on top of what they regularly charge, which seems like kind of a "fuck you" message to me.
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The city's Sick Leave Law is widely ignored by many businesses whose employees are supposed be covered by it.
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Just make binding votes on exec pay & benefits by share owners of corps & nonprofits like the EU and Japan do and end the carried interest exemption

Problem solved
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What does the SPD do? They don't enforce the cell phone law or vulnerable user law. They don't protect you from hate crimes and they sure as hell don't protect anybody from domestic abuse.

Why do we have them? It's like we need to go create a whole separate government agency to enforce the actual law while over in the SPD domain they are fully engaged with non-reform and dodging blame and figuring out who to promote.

Oh, wait, jaywalking. They write a metric fuck ton of jaywalking tickets from their saddles their hogs. Nobody can take away the SPD's sterling jaywalking enforcement.
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Lol, I remember when SPD ticketed jaywalkers a LOT more
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I have this same sort of question about the Affordable Care Act. Sure, the law says that insurance companies have to pay claims, can't deny pre-existing conditions, etc. But how is that actually going to be enforced?
When you get screwed by BlueCross, do you have to retain a lawyer and spend as much money on legal fees as you would on medical bills? Is some middling government employee going to successfully threaten them with fines? The law was essentially written by the insurance companies, so why do we think they won't try to abuse the system, as they've been doing for decades?

A law isn't a law until it is broken and then properly enforced.
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@6,

One thing about ACA is that it doesn't require a given insurance company to cover you. I know that caused some of the caterwauling over Obama's "if you like your insurance, you can keep it" gaffe. Even ACA compliant policies were yanked because an insurance company decided to leave a state entirely or whatever; United did that to California. (Side note: I used to have United, and it sucked shit.)

Your insurance company can dump you if it feels like it. It's not *supposed* to do it because your care is too expensive, but how do you prove it if that's the reason? You can't.
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@6 and @7. We're still working getting single payer because ACA has acknowledged it is going to leave out millions of people and won't stop people from going bankrupt over medical bills. Single payer will be cheaper and more efficient. http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single-payer-f…
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http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/vid… Murray: It's one thing to raise the wage, but if you're not enforcing that wage then you're really not raising the wage for those individuals.

And wtf is with Rolf saying that one day we'll look on Seattle's efforts to raise the minimum wage as we now look at Birmingham and Selma (32 minutes in).
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@8 Single payer is the only way to go. I remember hearing about opinion polls showing that most Americans were for the single payer option, but the corporate overlords would not accept it, and so it was never even discussed as an option. Maybe a step in the right direction would be to create a governmental/ public insurance company that could compete with the private ones. That way at least the tax money used to subsidize insurance plans would not flow to private companies, but back to the government and ultimately the people.

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