The article didn't say it, but the Senate democrats also fought a republican proposal to raise the minimum wage and provide incentives for small businesses to cover the costs.
In other words, if the senate democrats hadn't voted against it, the senate would have approved an increase in the minimum wage for these "poor people" the democrats say they love.
And now the republicans in the house will also pass an increase for those poor people, but the democrats will oppose it because it will hurt their fat-cat union and lawyer lobbies.
But the newspaper will blame it all on republicans.
To LaTourrette, I say "You can't justify a $5.15 minimum wage. You can't justify ANY minimum wage. But once you've adopted an unjustifiable minimum wage, there is no rational way to pick the "correct" number, because the ONLY rational way to pick a wage is for an employer and employee to agree on a fair wage, and the "minimum wage" circumvents with that process.
Yes we all long for the good ole days when employee and employer would come together and negotiate a wage.......the mines, the meat packing houses, the textile mills, the domestic servants for two dollars a day....ah for the days of unrestricted capitalism....
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Thomas Sowell would be proud of you. :-)