Democrats introduce equal pay legislation 10 years after passing first fair pay act

CBS "News" ^ | January 30, 2019 | BY GRACE SEGERS

[Oldeconomybuyer]

House Democrats were joined by Lilly Ledbetter, the namesake of the fair pay act signed by President Obama in 2009, to introduce supplemental legislation they say gives women "new tools" to challenge the gender pay gap.

The Paycheck Fairness Act, which is sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., addresses modern-day salary imbalances between men and women, which can be exacerbated when women are unaware of their male coworkers' salaries. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, said while introducing the bill that women could use a Google sheet to share salaries. Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive and the most famous new member of Congress, added that equal pay was a "generational issue."

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted after the news conference announcing the bill that "if "the wage gap is a myth" as some allege, then workplaces should have no problem with workers disclosing our salaries with one another."

The legislation would also prohibit employers from considering salary history as the basis for salaries, encourage pay equity, and help employers develop fair pay practices.

The Paycheck Fairness Act will also require the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to collect compensation data from employers in order to increase pay transparency and reveal pay discrimination.

[Dilbert San Diego]

True. Another factor which occurs to me, is that some dirty more dangerous work, with higher pay, are predominantly done by men. Relatively few women ever seek jobs in construction, or as truck drivers, for example.

[Secret Agent Man]

If its not a trick/weighted coin, yes.

[Amendment10]

Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to Congress the specific power to regulate pay equality within the sovereign states. This means that pay equality is a constitutionally unchecked, 10th Amendment-protected state power issue.

”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.

So post-17th Amendment ratification federal Democrats and RINOs evidently planning to steal state powers to make “federal” pay equality laws amounts to politicking to win votes from low-information citizens and illegal aliens in 2020 elections.

In other words, corrupt Democratic lawmakers are hoping to get themselves reelected so that they can continue to steal state revenues in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes.

• "It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to receive permission." —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986)

• "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.

• "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)

• "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.

  Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a republican form of government.

• "The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me

• "The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically competing, corrupt voter unions, union dues paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me

• "The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me

• "Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me

Insights welcome.

[Jeff Chandler]

Where a Government hack decides that a female office manager should be paid as much as a male master welder working 50 stores up.

Or that a female data entry drone sitting in an air conditioned office should be paid as much as a male driving a 53' trailer through busy traffic and handling thousands of pounds of freight in the Phoenix sun?

[Mariner]

“X still isn’t entitled to know what Y makes. “

I’m not saying they are entitled, legally or otherwise.

You can run your company any way you damn well please.