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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where I live, Washington, the minimum wage is $16.28 p/hour. Across the border in Idaho, the federal minimum applies — $7.25.

Businesses on the higher-wage side of the border are doing fine, and Spokaners do not drive across the border into Coeur d'Alene for cheaper groceries or a half-price Big Mac.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Spokaners do not drive across the border into Coeur d’Alene for cheaper groceries or a half-price Big Mac.

I actively boycott any and all ID businesses, because of the state's shitty labor and reproductive-rights laws and its nurture of Christofascism. They can Gilead all they want but it won't be with my financial support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They just come into WA for the medical center and clog up the system. ID residents should be banned from receiving medical care in WA.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They should not, but they should pay "out of state" fees if they make over a certain amount.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think Idaho should have to cover those fees as a penalty for not providing healthcare. Spokane’s hospital is over capacity pretty often, and a good portion of them are from Idaho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That sounds like interstate commerce, so any law requiring that would have to come from Congress

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (59 children)

ID residents should be banned from receiving medical care in WA.

But I think accelerationist policies often hurt vulnerable people...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah. I live in Seattle and had to travel a lot for work. Going out to eat was about the same price everywhere. The only thing that was really cheaper I could see was gas.