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As detailed in this editorial, the City Council’s Democratic majority voted to impose a higher minimum wage on all businesses operating within city limits. This came after a campaign based on economic illiteracy; supporters of the increase had the audacity to argue that business owners who worried how they would compete with rival firms with lower labor costs outside city limits didn’t know what was good for them. Meanwhile, elsewhere in town, Mayor Kevin Faulconer wasn’t joining in the council’s income-inequality theater. He was doing something far more substantial: persuading Illumina — the largest biotech company in San Diego — to rebuff the entreaties of other cities, such as Memphis, and to both remain based here and to expand here. 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All it took was a “historic” City Council decision to force virtually every business in town — and, it turns out, some businesses outside of town, too — to pay their workers at least $11.50 an hour by January 2017. The council didn’t even have to take that inconvenient step of putting the question to voters like Council President Todd Gloria originally said he wanted to do. There’s just one problem. 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href="/web/20140716121334/http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jul/07/san-diego-active-network-perry-texas-incentives/">Another self-inflicted wound to San Diego</a></h3><p class="date">Jul 7, 2014, 5 p.m.</p><p>What would you expect when the grass, and the profits, are greener in Texas? </p></div></article></div><div class="story-block four columns"><article class=" no-image"><div class="content"><h3><span class="opinion tag"><a href="/web/20140716121334/http://www.utsandiego.com/news/opinion/editorials/">Editorials</a></span><a href="/web/20140716121334/http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/jul/06/lessons-from-the-capitol-minimum-wage/">Minimum wage: Lessons from the Capitol for San Diego</a></h3><p class="date">Jul 6, 2014, 2:25 p.m.</p><p>Meet the Democrats who understand raising the minimum wage has a downside.</p></div></article><article class=" no-image"><div class="content"><h3><span class="opinion tag"><a 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