Democrats officially introduce $15 minimum wage bill

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[SaveFerris]

[$15,000!]

Your idea is 50% better than mine!!

[Red Badger]

DOA.......................

[LostPassword]

Getting this passed for everyone is not going to happen. But Michael Moore and friends don’t have to settle for failure. They can pool their money and buy businesses and pay employees whatever they want. Between Moore, Pelosi, the Hollywood crowd, and everyone else “on their side” they have well over a $Billion in investments.

They can buy fast food franchises all over the country. Pay $15/hour (or more) and put all profits toward buying new businesses. If they’re right about wages, profits, and business in general, in 10 years they should dominate the fast food industry and pay $15/hour to A LOT of employees.

They can buy failing businesses and keep them going (with $15/hour min wage) rather than selling off pieces (like that evil Romney).

They can start a venture capital fund and invest in startups and pay everyone $15/hour and put all profits back into their “$15/hour portfolio” rather than keeping the profit for themselves.

Why are they wasting so much time on legislation that won’t happen or will only “help” a single city? They can start helping real people in the time it takes to buy a McDonald’s franchise (I’d bet they can do it by next week). And if their statements about business are correct rather than BS, their businesses will be worth $tens of billions soon and employ tens of millions of people at $15/hour minimum. And they can do it without forcing anyone to do anything. They just need to put their investments where their mouth is. Maybe give up some ROI on their wealth. But do they really need the profit they will make from investing $tens of millions in companies that don’t pay $15/hour minimum? When they decide that their personal profit is not as important as $15/hour minimum wage I’ll take them seriously.

[jmaroneps37]

Why not $100.00?

[Red Badger]

[AndyTheBear]

15 an hour? Screw that. I think it should be a million an hour!

Then all any of use will have to do is work a few hours and retire rich.

Now some nay-sayers have complained about businesses owners not being able to pay that kind of wage...but that is the beauty of my plan, they themselves can just work a few hours and then they can retire too! The need for businesses and economy is solved!

[rb22982]

$15/hr in 2024 is the equivalent of about $12/hour today, so its not quite as drastic as it seems. While this may help the marginal worker, it will eliminate a lot of jobs and put some companies out of business entirely. At some point, Democrats are probably going to shift to pushing UBI rather than a minimum wage.

[Dahoser]

It would be nice if our side, once they come out from under their desks, would use annual salary rather than hourly rate in responding to this idiocy. $30,000 a year sounds a lot less palatable to pay teenagers for flipping burgers than $15 an hour.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Business owners are just thieves, anyway. Government should make them take away all of those evil jobs so nobody has to work. The guaranteed basic income should be enough for anybody. /millennial sanders voters :)

[ealgeone]

I’ll see your $10,000 and raise to $100,000.....because no one should have to work more than one hour a year.

[ealgeone]

Then we would have to build a wall to never let them out. Liberalism is like Ebola. It kills the host, mutates and finds another host to kill.

[GoldenPup]

Democrats officially introduce $15 minimum wage bill

Just trying to buy the next election with votes from the “gimme, gimme” crowd.

[Paladin2]

The ‘rats need to have the treasury issue a $15 bill.

[SaveFerris]

I like it!!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Why are FReepers not seeing the long-ball strategy of the Dems? They are doing this to keep their base active and angry, and to hopefully steal some of the blue-collar vote that voted for Trump.

When Republicans shoot this down, Dems will run on this in 2018.

It's infuriating that Republicans can't make an argument against leftist policies that end up failing and hurting the very people they're designed to help.

For the minimum-wage, you don't even have to break out the statistics.

You can use a simple illustration:

Think of employment as a ladder, and think of all the rungs on the ladder various wage levels.

When the minimum-wage is zero, anyone has an opportunity to gain employment and get the needed job skills to compete in the economy.

Raise the minimum-wage to $5, and you'd have to jump on the bottom 3rd rung of the ladder.

$10 an hour? Middle to upper two-thirds of the ladder.

$15 an hour? Try jumping to the top 2nd or 3rd rung of the ladder.

$20 and beyond? That's like a vertical leap on top of a 10" foot basketball rim.

[Finalapproach29er]

Inflation will hurt poor seniors who are just getting by.

Stupid,Stupid,Stupid!

[Chgogal]

Hey Jacka$$es, why not increase SoSo Security and Annual Minimum Incomes to $100,000?

[Amendment10]

With all due respect to Sen. Sanders, low-information Sanders is again proving himself to be an excellent example why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment should never have been ratified.

More specifically, Sanders’ bill for hiking national minimum wage is evidence that he is clueless that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to establish a national minimum wage.

In fact, regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the corrupt feds the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce.

• "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.

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

What’s going on with Sanders’ bill is this imo. Lawmakers are once again trying to steal state powers, the power of a given state to raise its minimum wage in this case, in order to win votes from low-information voters, voters who are as clueless as the federal lawmakers that they elect that the feds have no constitutional authority to set minimum wage.

Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!

Remember in November ’18 !

Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.

Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.

In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.

Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.

While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.

[WKUHilltopper]

So Bernie, commie stooge...you gonna sell your vacation homes to pay for this out of your own pocket??