law. can you talk about the difference between how big business versus small business will have to implement this minimum wage? 15 now and i as a socialist councilmember have been fighting for a three-year phase-in for small business and no phase-in for big business. i haven t met a single person and i ve talked to thousands of people who think that corporations like mcdonald s and starbucks should get any phase-in. they make billions in profits and are completely capable of lifting their workers out of poverty today, let alone at the beginning of next year. so we have been arguing for the strongest possible minimum wage, $15 law, and there were corporate loopholes as you mentioned. there were many corporate loopholes that were inserted, but what it shows to me, the take-home lesson is that you cannot rely on the corporate political establishment. the city council of seattle is primarily represented by the democratic party establishment
original proposal were not included, but i just want to show viewer these amendments. removing all language that allowed employers to pay subminimum wages, moving the start implementation date. removing the phase-in for big business. removing all language related to the tip credit. can you talk about your amendments? yes. so one of the amendments as you mentioned was to eliminate the phase-in for big business because i don t think there s any justification and nobody has explained to me so far what is the rationale behind giving big corporations, multi national, any more time to make sure that their workers come out of poverty. the other important amendment that you mention, a critical one is the one on tip credit. if your viewers don t know what that means, tip credit basically means that for workers who work in tip jobs, like restaurant jobs or nail salons, then they get a subminimum wage, which is lower than minimum wage because they supposedly make up the rest in tips. well, the
it s not about farmers versus everyone else. it does look like big business versus small business. we heard that specifically from republican senator chuck grassley. he said they are just pandering to big corporations. not interested in family farmer. that family farmer voted for president trump. he was there in those towns on the campaign trail saying i m here for you. we always believe that americans don t really maybe respect farming enough. a lot of us think that stuff grows at the grocery store and we don t really understand the struggles that family farms have. they re real. part of the problem is only 4% of farms produce two-thirds of the country s agricultural output. farms have been consolidating into these massive things. the family farmer has real