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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The $15 minimum wage won’t help anyone in Fairfax County because literally the only people making less than that are teenage part time workers and summer lifeguards at neighborhood pools. Not people who need “financial stability to support their families” - this is pretty much just feel-good virtue signaling.

In poorer parts of Virginia, it will depress job creation especially for young people trying to get on the ladder.

I’d be interested in seeing statistics about people making less than $15 right now in Virginia. Where are those jobs? Who is working them? How will the increase to $15 impact these businesses and creation of jobs? How much cost will be transferred onto the customer? Our pool dues will go up. Not a problem for me, but could potentially hit some families on a tight budget. And unnecessary because our pool already has a surplus of teens wanting to work there for 12.77 an hour.

Fortunately, there are likely very few full time adult workers making less than 15 right now, so probably not much impact compared to 20 or 25.

I also voted for a “moderate” am I am sick of the swinging back and forth between extremes. Youngkin, for his faults, was not extreme and seemed to have an understanding of the value of keeping things on an even keel and listening to voters. He did not try and reinvent the wheel, at least where things were already working pretty well. It is too bad that he wasn’t able to distance himself from Trump just a little more.

It is a mistake for Dems in general to engage in the kind of power grabbing they are attempting with the redistricting. We need to fight against the consolidation of power to one political party.

Dem extremism got us Trump. Trump’s extremism will lead to the pendulum swinging back. The swings are becoming too wide and causing too much instability. Rather than power grabbing and instituting your most extreme policies, why not actually listen to opposing views and work to find solutions that the great majority in the middle can live with?[/quote]

Youngkin was definitely extreme. Supported The Big Lie and all of the other extreme MAGA policies. The guy would have banned abortion.

Do you not know how governments work? Spanberger isn't the entire VA government. She alone does not control legislation. There is also the GA (and Supreme Court). Just because bills are being introduced doesn't mean they're being passed.

So much RW hysterics over nothing.

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What exactly is the Big Lie? 
Did Dems never tell lies?
Youngkin didn’t ban abortion, but supported limits, which most people support as well. 
As much as I dislike men politicians acting as though they know anything about it, I don’t think he was ever going to ban it completely like some states pretty much did.
Also, he protected same sex marriage. Not an extremist.[/quote]

Have you been living under a rock?

The Big Lie is that Trump didn’t lose the 2020 election…which he clearly did.

Any politician unwilling to state an obvious truth is in fact an extremist.[/quote]

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