County supervisors vote to increase minimum wage for county employees to $11.32 an hour

Some future trends can be predicted pretty easily. 

For example, if a city council or county board of supervisors can decree that city or county employees shall get a significant raise--paid by the taxpayers, of course--it virtually assures their re-election, because all city workers who got the raise will vote for them in expectation of future gifts.

That's the trivial prediction.

The significant one is that every other city council sees the news item, realizes they can do the same--and does.  So within a short period, a big percentage of gummint employees get a big raise.

And what does *that* do?  Well for starters, that money has to come from somewhere.  And if you haven't noticed, cities aren't rolling in extra money.  In fact most have been slowly cutting back on services so they can afford--higher salaries for city employees.

Take Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, for example:  The county's Board of Supervisors voted to increase the minimum wage for employees to $11.32--which will cost taxpayers an extra $11 million over the next 5 years.

The county supervisor who wrote the resolution is pictured below.

Note the flag in the lower-right corner of the pic--same size and height as the American flag on the left.  One might think this represented supervisor Bowen's second allegiance, presumably to the people of Milwaukee County.  I didn't realize the county had a flag.  Maybe there's something else going on here.