Rauner Vetoes 2022 $15 per Hour Minimum Wage

Here is Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto message of Senate Bill 81, legislation that would mandate employers to raise their employee’s wages to $15 an hour by 2025:

Here is Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto message of Senate Bill 81, legislation that would mandate employers to raise their employee’s wages to $15 an hour by 2025:

Today, I veto Senate Bill 81 from the 100th General Assembly, which raises the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next four years.

Helping low-income families and individuals get out of poverty is a top priority, and I share the passion of many members of the legislature for improving the well-being of those struggling to make ends meet. However, mainstream economic theory and mainstream economic evidence strongly suggest that an increase in the minimum wage of this magnitude will hurt the very individuals it seeks to help.

The most thorough research to date, published earlier this year by researchers at the University of Washington, found that for every 10 percent increase in the hourly earnings of low-wage workers, there was a 30 percent reduction in employers providing those jobs.

This research implies that Senate Bill 81 will result in a net reduction of earnings for low-wage Illinoisans in excess of $1,500 per year. This legislation would cost significant sums of money for the very people it purports to help. Illinois needs to be seeking comprehensive solutions that grow the economy and the number of jobs available where individuals can train, grow and attain better lives for themselves and their families.

Therefore, pursuant to Section 9(b) of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution of 1970, I hereby return Senate Bill 81, entitled β€œAN ACT concerning employment,” with the foregoing objections, vetoed in its entirety.


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Rauner Vetoes 2022 $15 per Hour Minimum Wage — 12 Comments

  1. The government should NOT be interfering with private business by
    dictating what it thinks wages should be in the first place.

  2. Let me guess, Honest Abe.

    You’re also opposed to child labor laws?

  3. Pffft! God will not punish him for common sense, less govt intrusion and letting the free market work its magic!

    Child labor laws are to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

    However I expect all minimum wage workers to comment in protest.

    Then protest if this happened and they were replaced by computers.

    Duh!

  4. Child labor laws Alabama?

    Teenagers and twenty somethings can’t find jobs.

    We don’t need child labor laws.

  5. Alabama & Doodie – two clueless individuals who never tire of making fools of themselves for
    our amusement.

    As the saying goes, ignorance is bliss.

  6. Doodie, alias Bobby ‘Booby’ Miller, alias ‘The Algonquin Grifter’, alias ‘The Disneyland Dude on the Dope-Taxpayer’s Dime’ is now creating his own Bible!

    Is the ‘Thou shall not steal” commandment still in it???

  7. a reading from Doodie’s creepy anti-Bible, from Folthians 18:09

    “And Satan appointed an evil man as Township Roadway Chief for the Al Gonkin slaves to lord over them and seize their just wages. He was anointed with goat-grease and skunk essence and set up in his palace where salt and sulfur, in prodigious quantities, were stored up in huge silos. And the evil chief would prance with his kin around fires made of the homes of the burned out slaves who could no longer pay his lucre demands. And the wicked Chief reveled in his wickedness and spat at the slaves when they cried for deliverance. And the evil Road chief screamed: “I shall not deliver you worthless tax-slaves, and my descendants shall reign over yours for a hundred thousand years!”

  8. Hey Mr. Doodie, that OMW posting seems to be directed at YOU, if you are in fact Bob Miller, the ex-Road Comm’r.

    You were the devil-appointed hack!!!

  9. **Alabama & Doodie – two clueless individuals who never tire of making fools of themselves for our amusement.**

    Yet you didn’t answer the question… why is that?

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