Should be lowering it.
As an alternative, a poor one, of eliminating it.
Why not $20? $100?
” - - - and 14 Republicans defecting to vote against it. - - - “
Who are the 14 RINOs?
Since the democrats cannot understand the very simplest things than how on earth could they ever be trusted to solve anything complex?
Democrats ruin absolutely everything they touch and their greed is at the heart of everything they do and say.
The Democrat’s proposal to raise the minimum wage was nothing more than a political ploy. They knew damn well that the Republicans, being more fiscally responsible, would have to defeat it. Now Obama the outsider has another issue with which to attack Republicans.
“For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State, (that is to say of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively (emphases added) with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.” –Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791."State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphases added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Base on a discussion in a related thread, possibly the reason that businessmen comply with constitutionally indefensible federal minimal wage laws is because they don't understand Congress's Section 8-limited powers imo.
Let the market set the wages. Enough said!
The minimum wage law is a full employment act for illegals who get paid under the table.
Well, this is a good thing.
Good. I want the minimum wage at least 100 dollars an hour and nothing less. lol.
0bamacare + Min. Wage Increase = Eradication of Private Sector. With only 0bamacare, it’s barely limping along. 0bama will do all he can to set the stage for 100% government jobs. This is just what Dictators do.
It was just a back door way of raising tax revenue.
Minimum wage is a killer for marginal or unskilled employees.
I think we should raise the minimum wage to $25.00 an Hr.. LOL
Ouch. These automatic increases would have put minimum wage on an unsustainable course, much like baseline budgeting has done to federal spending. I'm sure the goal is to equalize wages (because why *should* a neurosurgeon earn more than a hamburger flipper?), but the only way the economy can survive such automatic increases is through massive inflation. And if government tries to halt the money presses to control inflation... well, that won't work either. Doesn't Zimbabwe still have tons of money?
No problem. Executive order coming right up. $15.00 an hour.
A minimum wage would work in a non welfare state with closed borders, which we have neither.
Angry chimp noises at 11.
The federal government should DROP the minimum wage law, they have no business telling private enterprise what to pay their employees.