Posted on 08/21/2016 3:03:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As recently as last year, the Democratic Party’s leaders thought the idea of a $15 federal minimum wage was unrealistic and even pushed back against it. That ended in July when the official party platform, bowing to pressure from organized labor and Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters, adopted a call for a $15 federal minimum, more than double the current rate of $7.25 an hour. […]
When Seattle increased its minimum to $15 in 2014, a boost of nearly $6 an hour, it also commissioned a study of the increase’s effect by the University of Washington. A report released in July found that an increase to $11 an hour in April 2015, the first part of the phase-in (the $15 rate will not go into effect until 2017), had not benefited Seattle’s low-wage workers.
Instead, it resulted in modest declines to their employment rates and hours worked. While the workers did experience boosts in earnings overall, the report found the increases would have happened without the higher minimum thanks to the region’s growing economy. …
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“Some left-of-center economists did make the case against it last year. Brookings Institution economist Harry Holzer wrote an op-ed for Fortune in July 2015 endorsing an increase to $10 an hour but expressing “serious worries” about a $15 rate.”
If $10/hr is good why isn’t $15/hr better??????
“The poor will always be with us.”
“If we divided all the money in the world equally, in a short time the rich would be rich again, and the poor would be poor.”
I was checking out at my adorable local library the other day and noticed a job posting.
Bachelor’s degree required and Master’s degree preferred
$12.00 an hour 35 hours a week. I assume it goes up eventually, but still...
Instead of constantly pointing out how harmful minimum-wage increases are, just say that now is the time to eliminate the federal minimum-wage. If Seattle, CA or Mass. wants to commit economic suicide and raise their minimum-wages, who cares?
Pelosi: "OMG! We need to raise it higher, then!!!"
awww no...lol
awww no...lol
No; that is not a power reserved to them via the Tenth Amendment at all. The Guarantee Clause of Article 4 Section 4 says that the federal government has to guarantee “a republican form of government” to the states (which includes its municipalities), and since a socialistic form of government is antithetical to that, it is forbidden therefore at all levels.
Why do conservatives get upset when states or municipalities raise their minimum wage? This is the beauty of the 10th Amendment
Anyone surprised when their new higher wage results in less take home pay due to higher taxes or they lose benefits like free school lunches for their kids because they now make too much?
Follow their logic, boys and girls. Not letting illegals come in and work those jobs will make lettuce $6 a head - i.e. Americans taking those jobs will make the product prohibitively expensive - but the $15 minimum wage is GOOD and presumably won't make the product prohibitively expensive.
Cheap Mexican labor - good.
Expensive American labor - good.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Cheap bastards, how can one feed a family of 8, take vacations to the Bahamas and drive BMWs, live in an $800,000 house on Lake Union and have a golden parachute when we retire at age 50, on $15.00 / hr.
it was never designed to help the poor- it is designed to help unions and drive private business out of business
It is also designed to increase payroll taxes; more Social Security & Medicare contributions...
It seems engineered to remove “working poor” (minimum-wage adults) from public assistance by forcing the employers to bear the costs (regardless of work difficulty/skills required).
Hey, it’s not like we didn’t try to warn them that would happen.
I just watched a CSPAN show with labor activists discussing the $15 minimum wage in Seattle and how they want to take it national.
The most hilarious comment was when one guy said that companies outside Seattle (from all over the country) would lose their workers as they moved to Seattle for the $15 wage.
Yeah, like someone paying $500 a month in rent in Birmingham, AL is going to move to Seattle for a $15 an hour job while their rent jumps to $1,500.
Liberals and math are not friends.
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