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Wishing Baumgartner luck

Sun., Jan. 31, 2016

This is what I think. If I owned a business, I would pay my employees as much as I could in order to encourage them to keep coming to work as long as I was still making a profit. Furthermore, the benefits that I provided, anything from nothing, to a turkey at Thanksgiving, to full medical for the entire family or something in between, would be dependent on the same as the salary.

That is keeping a workforce and making a profit. However, just as soon as the city dictated to me what salary I would pay and or what benefits I would provide, my business would no longer exist in that city.

Good luck Sen. Michael Baumgartner getting SB 6578 thru the Legislature and past the governor.

John May, city council

Chewelah

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