Posted on 04/29/2015 2:07:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A phased-in, $12-an-hour minimum wage will be proposed Thursday by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., with Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on hand to offer support.
As many as half or more of the Senate’s 46 Democrats are expected to support the proposal. The $12 wage is higher than the the $10.10-an-hour minimum wage proposed by President Obama.
Once a bipartisan cause — the last minimum wage increase was passed by a Democratic controlled Congress and signed by President Bush — efforts to raise the current $7.25-an-hour federal wage have been blocked in Congress. Speaker John Boehner has refused to allow a House vote.
“John Boehner has never stopped me before,” Murray joked in an interview Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.com ...
-Milton Friedman
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Offset it against their food stamp allotment.
Raise the import tariffs before raising the minimum wage, or you’ll just accelerate the offshoring of jobs.
Sorry Dems...we won.
Why not $25 an hour? or maybe $30 an hour? lets make them earn more than people who have been working their 20 years!
$12 is racist. It should be much higher!
No. Stop being a greedy little pig. If you are going to support raising the minimum wage, you need to raise it to $100.00/ hour so people can live comfortably.
STOP BEING GREEDY PATT MURRAY!!!!!!!
Murray looks like the girl from Scooby Doo.
Democrats love spending other people’s money.
Why stop at $12? How about doing away with the minimum wage and just mandate a a minimum salary, say $50,000 or $100,000 a year.
“How about doing away with the minimum wage and just mandate a a minimum salary, say $50,000 or $100,000 a year.”
I wonder how much a quarter-pounder would cost if burger flippers were making that kind of money.
You’re incorrect. Let me get the calendar... Would two weeks from Tuesday at 2:00 be convenient for the Republican cave on this issue? Boehner needs the extra time to get ‘rat votes in line so as to subvert the will of his caucus.
I vote for 50/hr
Wrong for many reasons. One is that the dollar has a different value in different states.
So many middle-aged liberal womyn have teenybopper names.
“Patty”, “Susie”, “Annie” etc.
Oh heck, make it a $100 minimum wage proposal then threaten to call anyone opposed a “racist”.
Repubs in Congress will fold up like an accordion (with one noble exception).
... the dollar has a different value in different states...
And even in different neighborhoods.
RE: Sen. Patty Murray, Democrats to propose $12 federal minimum wage
They were asking for $15 Ms. Murray. You’re a cheapskate.
I’d give them $20 if I were you ( I got plenty of numbers ) /sarc
RE: I vote for 50/hr
I vote for 51/hr. What? You say $52/hr?
I raise you to $53/hr. I got plenty of numbers !
Hey Patty!
How’s that $15 minimum in Seattle working out?
Are there fewer employers and workers now, than before the imposition?
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