Posted on 02/08/2021 1:44:34 PM PST by upchuck
President Joe Biden pledged during his campaign that he would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour if he won the White House, tipping his hat to progressives who believe the current federal minimum wage leaves working-class Americans impoverished.
Biden seemingly made good on that promise with his $1.9 trillion coronavirus-related economic relief plan. Stuffed inside Biden's proposal is the minimum wage hike.
But now it appears the minimum wage hike could be jettisoned altogether as Democrats and Republicans negotiate the third round of COVID-related economic stimulus.
Biden admitted in an interview with CBS News that aired before the Super Bowl that his key campaign promise of hiking the minimum wage likely will not survive legislative negotiations.
"My guess is it will not be in it," he said, Politico reported. "I don't think it is going to survive."
Biden cited Senate rules that require 60 votes to invoke cloture on bills to avoid a filibuster.
The president, however, added that not all hope is lost. He said that he may pursue raising the minimum wage in the future, though he did not say when that time will come. He also said he is open to incrementally raising the federal minimum wage, a process that would take years before reaching the $15 per hour promised land.
"I am prepared as president of the United States on a separate negotiation of minimum wage to work my way up from what it is now," Biden said. "No one should work 40 hours a week and live below the poverty wage, and if you're making less than $15 an hour, you're living below the poverty wage."
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The number of people laid off would be horrendous.
No problem.
Just wait for President Harris.
Agree many elderly people subsidize their SS income but that's not a huge majority.
Not to mention all the new immigrants coming in, who would be expecting $15/hour jobs, and there would be no jobs to be founds, so we would end up having to support them (too).
So true. Just as people who have got time to feel oppressed by statues and building names are not oppressed at all.
A couple both making the new wage would jointly be making $30/hr ($60k/yr). Yes, they would be above the poverty level and no t eligible for any government give-aways..
Got to be one of the most convoluted and illogical posts I have ever read.
Progressives ALWAYS ignore the economic fact that the true minimum wage is $0/hour.
We have a McDonald’s in our area that has to be the most horrible one in the US. Never seen anything like it. Everyone of the workers is morbidly obese, slower than “molasses”. We stopped going after my husband waited twenty minutes at the “pull up there” spot for a frappe, which we had already paid for. To think these people will be making 15.00 per hour is pure comedy.
NEMDF’s post made perfect sense to me.
Announcing a $15/hr wage is like turning on the porch light — one attracts flying insects, the other attracts migrants.
The one that attracts migrants also kills jobs — so, when the migrants arrive, and find no jobs, they turn to welfare.
Since I am loathe to the government, especially a demoncratic one, to be telling Companies what they have to do and not do, I hesitate to even say anything. But, if they have to, maybe it should be in a way befitting of SOME rationalization...
Minimum wage for people under 18 = whatever it is now.
Minimum wage for single people over 18 = $10 an hour.
Minimum wage for married people = $12.50 an hour.
Minimum wage for married people with children = $15 an hour.
Comments?
Wait a whole two months for Kammie Harris as Prez? Too long.
Biden promised if the Georgia senators won, he would deliver $2,000 a person right away.
HE PROMISED.
He must deliver. Dems never lie. Except when their lips are moving.
LOL
You Lefties voted for a man that can’t remember which is his
wife and which is his sister.
You thought he was going to follow through with promises he
will swear he never made?
I wonder how many people are regretting their vote right
about now.
How about, no. No minimum wage at all. The true minimum wage is $0.00.
Why would Democrats negotiate? Oh, I just thought: maybe they know it's bad but this will allow them to blame it on Republicans.
“I am prepared as president of the United States on a separate negotiation of minimum wage to work my way up from what it is now,” Biden said. “No one should work 40 hours a week and live below the poverty wage, and if you’re making less than $15 an hour, you’re living below the poverty wage.”
So is Joe gonna get some skin in the game by donating his salary and a large portion of his ill-gotten wealth to people in poverty? Like, C’mon man!
“I am prepared as president of the United States on a separate negotiation of minimum wage to work my way up from what it is now,” Biden said. “No one should work 40 hours a week and live below the poverty wage, and if you’re making less than $15 an hour, you’re living below the poverty wage.”
So is Joe gonna get some skin in the game by donating his salary and a large portion of his ill-gotten wealth to people in poverty? Like, C’mon man!
“founds” should be “found”. ???
Why do married people get more money?
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Regarding Biden’s constitutionally indefensible campaign promise concerning national minimum wage, please consider the following.
Patriots are reminded that Justice Joseph Story had used “the wages of labor” as an example of a power that the states have never expressly constitutionally given to the feds.
"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." —"Justice Joseph Story, Commerce Clause (1.8.3), 1833.
”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 other words, bleeding heart Democrats should never have gotten themselves elected to the constitutionally limited power federal government if they wanted to make things better for the common person. Instead, they should have gotten themselves elected to a state government to use 10th Amendment-protected state powers to do such things as the early states had intended for those powers to be used.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, not the federal government.
”[…] 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.)
Justice Brandeis later reflected on Bingham’s words using his “laboratories of democracy” metaphor to show that it is ultimately up to the legal majority voters of a given state to decide what government services they want to experiment with.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
The bottom line is that the unconstitutionally big federal government needs to get its big nose out of the affairs of the sovereign states.
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