Residents in Seattle, Washington, plan to stop tipping as a minimum wage hike in the Democrat-run city looms. The city’s minimum wage is supposed to go from $19.97 to $20.76 an hour on January 1, the Daily Mail reported on Friday. Tipping workers on top of the approaching hourly rate hike does not appear to be a popular idea with some residents who have said they will no longer be shelling out the extra money for workers. The Mail article continued: One user who shared a Reddit post on the wage hike, which has picked up steam in the local area, said: ‘With Seattle’s new minimum wage going into effect really soon, most food industry workers are finally reaching a level playing field. ‘As a result, I’ll no longer be tipping more than 5-10%. And I’m ONLY doing that if service is EXCEPTIONAL. It’s only fair—hard work deserves fair pay across all industries. ‘Any instance where I am ordering busing my own table, getting my own utensils, etc warrants $0. I also am not tipping at coffee shops anymore.’ Seattle’s minimum wage rate is among the highest in America, KTTH radio host Jason Rantz wrote in an opinion piece on Thursday. He noted that Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance requires the increases based on inflation. Rantz then said, “Seattle restaurant operators are panicked ahead of a minimum wage update that will now prevent tips and benefits from being deducted from hourly wages. For some Seattle restaurants, it will add about $45,000 in expenses per month that they don’t have.” “A lot of restaurants are going to have razor-thin, one- to three-percent profit margins. So, a lot of places are probably going to build that price increase into the menu,” he said. In 2021, Breitbart News’s economics editor John Carney noted that President Joe Biden (D) claimed raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would force employers to pay a living wage to people working for them. However, Carney said, “the weight of economic studies say that it would have an adverse effect on employment.” For the first time since 2020, The Guardian Angels will resume their patrols on NYC subways as crime continues to rise. Curtis Sliwa, an American activist, radio talk show host, and founder and CEO of The Guardian Angels, shared the group will reappear in response to “sky-high” crime, including the shocking murder of a sleeping woman, who was lit on fire by an illegal immigrant. “We’re going to make sure we have a visual presence just like we had in the ’70s, 80’s and ’90s.” Ever since last week’s shocking slaying, “hundreds of citizens” have requested the Guardian Angels return to patrol the subway cars, Sliwa claimed. “We’re covering the actual trains from front to back, walking through the trains and making sure that everything is okay,” he told The Post on Sunday. “We’re doing this constantly now. Starting today. that’s going to be our complete focus because the subways are out of control.” Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely during an incident on a New York City subway in 2023. Neely had been arrested 42 times over the last decade. The US Treasury Department has alerted lawmakers to a cybersecurity breach involving a Chinese state-sponsored actor, marking what officials describe as a “major incident.” According to a letter obtained by CNN on Monday, the Treasury learned on December 8 from a third-party software provider that a stolen key had been used to remotely access certain Treasury workstations and unclassified documents. “Based on available indicators, the incident has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor,” wrote Aditi Hardikar, assistant secretary for management at the US Treasury, in the letter. A Treasury spokesperson confirmed to CNN that the compromised service has been taken offline, and officials are actively collaborating with law enforcement and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/401553 The suspect accused of plowing a pickup truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 10 and injuring at least 30 on New Year’s Day, is named Shamsud Din Jabbar, according to a law enforcement source, Nola.com reported. The outlet also reported the suspect is 42 years old and that he was carrying an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) flag in the vehicle. Police shot and killed him after the attack. The attack occurred around 3:15 a.m. FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Aletha Duncan first said the attack was not a “terrorist event.” Violence reigned in the New Year in Brussels as miscreants attacked police and firefighters and set dozens of fires in the de-facto capital of the European Union. Brussels Police said that they made at least 159 arrests during New Year’s Eve and had to intervene in over 1,700 incidents with members of the public, Le Soir reports. At least 54 other fires engulfed various pieces of street furniture, trash cans, and trees, Brussels firefighters said. Police, emergency workers, and firefighters all reported coming under attack with either fireworks or Molotov cocktails.
‘It’s Only Fair’: Residents Vow to Stop Tipping in Democrat-Run Seattle Due to Minimum Wage Hike:
Guardian Angels Announce Return to NYC Subway Patrols in Response to ‘Sky-High’ Crime:
Major incident: US Treasury Department says it was targeted by Chinese-sponsored hackers:
Report: New Orleans Ramming Suspect Identified as ‘Shamsud Din Jabbar’:
New Year’s Eve Chaos in EU Capital Brussels, 159 Arrests as Police Attacked, Dozens of Cars Set on Fire: