Posted on 02/23/2021 10:45:47 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Ask the Democrats how high they will raise unemployment checks and Social Security payments to keep in step.
Raising the min. wage is not the end of the world or the hill to die on.
People are not commodities like hamburger meat or cement. They vote.
Oh no! Hamburgers are going to cost $500 dollars now. /sarcasm
“commodities like hamburger meat or cement”
I did break a tooth on a Whopper last week.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Regardless what FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), patriots are reminded that the Court had previously clarified that the states have never amended the Constitution to give Congress the express power to regulate INTRAstate labor, including no power to decide minimum wage.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
"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.
In fact, Justice Joseph story had singled out “the wages of labor” as an example of a power that the Commerce Clause does not give to Congress.
"Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour [emphasis added], the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments [emphasis added]." —"Justice Joseph Story, Commerce Clause (1.8.3), 1833.
So if post-17th Amendment ratification Joe Manchin were to unthinkingly follow CNN’s very bad advice for him to push unconstitutional national minimum wage, then Manchin should lose his lawmaking job for overreaching the fed's very limited, constitutionally enumerated powers imo.
"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [emphasis added], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Corrections, insights welcome.
I think its more shameful to take advice from a bald dumbass no one ever heard of on CNN.
Id be cool with it if it applied to the self employed
Only communists think that way.
Last time I was in Costa Rica and went to the supermercado, there were literally dozens of people working in the aisles, either to help you find what your were looking for or giving out samples or demonstrations. The butcher shop was packed with workers. That’s because people’s time in C.R. isn’t very valuable. Lot’s of not-so-well paying jobs.
Our local supermarket now has half its checkout lanes self-serve with one attendant to help and they’ve just installed a robotic stock checker that rolls up and down the aisles. A $15/hour minimum wage will obviously eliminate jobs that require few, if any real skills to perform. So, yes, if you keep your minimum wage job, you’ll be making more, but the odds are you’ll lose your job and be earning $0/hour.
Note to Louis:
GET right back to me AFTER you have had a business & paid a payroll for a minimum of 2 years.
You are BLIND-STUPID
A few years ago there was a story about WalMart closing some 40 odd neighborhood WalMarts. At the time they thought as many as a dozen checkout clerks could lose their jobs.
Who elected Errol Lewis Chief of the Shame Police? I’m no fan of Joe Manchin but he was elected by the people of West Virginia to represent their interests. Lewis represents only his own interests.
Errol Lewis is one of NY City’s black elite. He grew up in New Rochelle, went to Harvard, Yale, and Brooklyn Law. Following graduation he co-founded the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union and also taught at the prestigious Pratt Institute, he now lives in Crown Heights.
Before finding his way into the public eye as a ‘Journalist’ he ran for office 3 times and was defeated 3 times. Now he’s on TV pontificating about how personally shameful it is for US Senator Joe Manchin to offer legislation that would increase wages, but not so much that jobs would be lost.
So, shame on Errol Lewis, the dilettante son of privilege personified, who likely never had to support a family on an hourly wage job in his pampered life, but feels free to pander to Democrat special interest fat cats, at the expense of better men. Shame indeed.
“Welcome to McRobots- please enter your order on the touch screen”
Well that’s a pic of stupidity..
Nothing is stopping CNN from raising the salary of their hourly workers. Thought so.
Automation and the minimum wage and not related. Processes and tasks are automated regardless of the spot price of unskilled labor and the min. wage.
Great information: thanks for posting!
And stupid and ignorant to support it.
For the record:
“Nearly two-thirds of the studies reviewed estimated that the minimum wage had negative (although not always statistically significant) effects on employment. Only eight found positive employment effects. Of the 33 studies judged the most credible, 28, or 85%, pointed to negative employment effects.” - https://wol.iza.org/articles/employment-effects-of-minimum-wages/long
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