Hell, why not raise it to $97.00 an hour? Or $970.00 an hour? Or maybe $97,000,000.00 an hour? That way everyone can be a millionaire, because after all, we are all equally entitled to the fruits of success!
Note my dripping sarcasm.
Dems: chopping off the lowest rungs of the economic ladder too keep a loyal base off the ladder.
By the way, is there any constitutional basis for a federal minimum wage. Maybe if you tied the commerce clause in a knot you could argue that companies involved in interstate commerce could be made to comply. But that doesn't explain how a little mom and pop shop doing local business only could be forced to comply with a federal minimum wage.
Just another symptom of the unraveling of our country. Anyone with a clue understands that artifically setting the wage for workers is folly. But, when the masses are given the power to vote themselves entitlements, they do so. The average American has no clue what the impact of the minimum wage is on the economy, or on them, beyond knowing that those working for the minimum wage can get a raise.
While I believe neither political party cares about what’s good for America anymore, we know Democrats will cater to lower income Americans to secure their power.
Raising the minimum wage won’t ruin America, but it’s a symptom of what is ruining America.
Do not ever, ever compromise with a liberal. It's just a slower path to the Dark Side.
Why not $50 an hour.
It’s only money.....
Meanwhile last figures I saw was private sector union membership was ~7.4% in 2006 and is the lowest it has been in recent history.
It gets difficult to buy into thinking those “labor activists/leaders” speak in any way for “labor” as labor has been voting with its feet and have managed to avoid their “representation.”
Only people they can speak for is the small (small enough you could probably argue they’re irrelevant) number that were (for the most part, I suspect) compelled to join as a condition of employment.
Maybe somebody ought to point that out to them.
As for Clinton and others – it’s interesting that they favor a “woman’s right to choose” when it comes to terminating a pregnancy but aren’t in favor if it when it comes to compulsory union membership in closed-shop states.
But whatever…
As long a minimum wage remains lower then the actual lowest wage paid I’m OK with it.
The market has already moved the ‘minimum wage’ well above the federal level (in my area).
In that sense they are all just arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
I suggest that the government just institute a single wage for everybody... Then you just have to work as many hours as you need to live... I think $100.00 an hour would be a good place to start. So if you want to be able to afford to live a lifestyle of someone who makes $20,000, you would only have to work about 4 hours a week! If you wanted to have a $200,000 a year lifestyle, you would have to work 40 hours a week!
Simple, huh?
OK, never mind that the McDonalds “Dollar Value Menu” would now be a $200.00 value menu.
It’s all show and mirrors.
Raise the minimum wage and you cause a recession and firings.
They will make the cost of everything rise so the raise ends up meaning nothing anyway.
the grand panderama tour continues....
the grand panderama tour continues....
If they really wanted higher wages for American labor, they would push for tariffs on countries without labor protections and enforce immigration laws to restrict supply.
In reality, they seem to just want to put private industry out of business and force the U.S. to import goods or depend on the government for goods and services.
The SEIU in Kalifornia is full of illegal intruder undocumented “workers”.
This union gets the majority of it’s membership dues from them. The union is working hard to keep the illegals coming in across the border.
Translation: Libs Want Another, Bigger payoff to the worthless unions.
Want to see a liberal scream. Introduce a clean minimum wage bill on the floor of either house, i.e. “Be it enacted that the minimum wage in the United States shall be X”.
This, instead of the usual “amendment to the Fair wages and standards act of 1938” with all it’s union contract tripwires.
Remember, that the minimum wage was originally enacted so that nobody could undercut the union wage, which is pulled out of thin air instead of being based on the cost of production.
The Democrats seem hell bent on slowing down the economy for some reason.
My uncle who is a doctor once said “money for education is out there if you look for it hard enough”. In this economy, just about anyone can afford a decent education (through student loans and such) which will get them needed skills in this global economy we live in.
When are we going to have all legislatures- Federal and State levels put bills forth that are ONE topic only?
I am tired of all the piggybacking on everything.....
Having said that- I wonder how many jobs are going to be carved out of the economy when small businesses let part of their staff go over the increase in payroll costs????
hey, pay everyone an extra $100/hour and adjust the price of everything accordingly...
think the dollar sucks now?, after the increase we’ll que up Dr Phil “How’s that working for ya’ll”...
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