Posted on 02/16/2021 4:54:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Republican senators Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton will introduce legislation aimed at raising the minimum wage while addressing concerns about illegal immigrants taking American jobs.
In tweets posted Tuesday by both Romney (R-Ut.) and Cotton (R-Ark.), the senators revealed their plans to put forward a bill “that would increase the minimum wage while ensuring businesses cannot hire illegal immigrants. We must protect American workers.”
“Congress hasn’t raised the minimum wage in more than a decade, leaving many Americans behind,” Romney tweeted. “Our proposal gradually raises the minimum wage without costing jobs, setting it to increase automatically with inflation, and requires employers to verify the legal status of workers.”
“Today, Americans have to compete against millions of illegal immigrants who take illegally low wages under the table,” Cotton argued in a tweet on his account, “We can fix this by requiring employers to verify the legal status of every worker so they can’t undercut Americans on the black market.”
The increase, according to Cotton, will not go into effect until after the pandemic had ended. It will also include protections for small businesses, something sure to curry favor with Senate Republicans who demanded liability protections be included in any COVID-19 relief package.
“We have an obligation to protect our workers and fellow citizens. This common-sense proposal will give millions of Americans the raise they deserve,” the Arkansas senator closed the thread by noting.
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FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
From a related thread...
Patriots are reminded that the states have never amended the Constitution to give the federal government the specific power to regulate INTRAstate labor.
To begin with, pre-FDR era, state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had emphasized the already clear meaning of the Commerce Clause, that this clause does not give Congress any power to regulate intrastate commerce.
"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.
Justice Joseph Story later used “the wages of labor” as an example of a power that Congress does not have.
"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.
Many lawmakers need to lose their job under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for rebelling against the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers by making bills that unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s 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 [emphases 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."
Proclaiming your a champion of the working class suckers you bleed to death, all the while enriching you and yours.
You had better come to know your maker, because you will soon meet Him face to face.
And it will be by the leftards hand, who's behind you are licking.
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