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House passes bill to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
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Posted on 07/18/2019 11:48:07 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Rurudyne
The minimum wage has been tested by SCOTUS already. That is my understanding.
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:40:26 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: jazusamo
Senate should approve it, send it to Trumps desk and have him veto it saying its not enough. Then change it to 30 an hour, make illegal minimum wage 35 an hour and send it back.
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:40:45 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Trump is President and CEO of America, Inc.)
To: central_va
Wasn’t it last year we learned about young people who couldn’t change a light bulb?
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:40:58 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: conservative98
Next up: self-order kiosks and self-checkout everywhere.
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:41:22 PM PDT
by
al_c
(Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
To: All
Since they are causing automatic inflation are all,people on the government dole going to get a proportional raise at the same time?
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:41:46 PM PDT
by
Retvet
(Retvet)
To: conservative98
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:43:22 PM PDT
by
grobdriver
(BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
Comment #127 Removed by Moderator
To: JBW1949
It’s the reason that the place AOCRAZY worked as a bartender closed when NY State enacted a $15 per hour min. wage. So did a lot of other places.
To: central_va
Tariffs are socialist/communistic as is the minimum the wage and populism outright sucks too hamiltonian/jacksonan/ roosevelt populism has been the death knoll of the Constitutional Republic.
To: MAGA_patriot
What are you talking about?
To: Buckeye McFrog
I follow your thinking on that. For similar reasons I think Trump needs to do something about student loans and diffuse the ticking time bomb. That is an issue that could just overwhelm us at the ballot box as Millenials storm in to vote themselves out of debt. You are starting to understand populism. Populism is not a bad thing at all. The trick is point the herd in the right direction. But first you need a herd.
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:46:27 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: MAGA_patriot
I make $45/hour and I don’t eat steak.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I would prefer a minimum rate of $200/hr rather than a measly $115. Go big or go home!
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:47:33 PM PDT
by
bagman
To: central_va
So please point out where the Court, which plays no role in any amendment peocess, has the delegated power to alter the understanding of the Constitution to be different that what those that Ratified it agreed to?
Or do you imagine that for well over a century before FDR everyone was completely wrong about the Constitution? That lawlessness and apostasy comes first while faithfulness and fidelity later?
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:47:49 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: cuban leaf
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:49:37 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: StoneWall Brigade
Tariffs are socialist/communisticExplain why Marx was a Free Trader? Explain why every country we trade with has high tariffs on our exports of durable goods?
But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
- Karl Marx, On the Question of Free Trade (1848)
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:49:37 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Rurudyne
There are many cases involving the Constitutionality of the minimum wage. Google it yourself.
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:50:43 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: DoughtyOne
Also gets the Reps on the record. The Dems will try to use the no vote against them.
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:51:50 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: Rurudyne
In 1933, the Roosevelt administration during the New Deal made the first attempt at establishing a national minimum wage regiment with the National Industrial Recovery Act, which set minimum wage and maximum hours on an industry and regional basis. The Supreme Court, however, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935) ruled the act unconstitutional, and the minimum wage regulations were abolished.[32] Two years later after President Roosevelt's overwhelming reelection in 1936 and discussion of judicial reform, the Supreme Court took up the issue of labor legislation again in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937) and upheld the constitutionality of minimum wage legislation enacted by Washington state and overturned the Adkins decision which marked the end of the Lochner era.[33] In 1938, the minimum wage was re-established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act, this time at a uniform rate of $0.25 per hour (equivalent to $4.45 in 2018). The Supreme Court upheld the Fair Labor Standards Act in United States v. Darby Lumber Co. (1941), holding that Congress had the power under the Commerce Clause to regulate employment conditions.[34]
The 1938 minimum wage law only applied to "employees engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce," but in amendments in 1961 and 1966, the federal minimum wage was extended (with slightly different rates) to employees in large retail and service enterprises, local transportation and construction, state and local government employees, as well as other smaller expansions; a grandfather clause in 1990 drew most employees into the purview of federal minimum wage policy, which now set the wage at $3.80.[35]
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:53:33 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: conservative98
I guess we will be letting people go.
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posted on
07/18/2019 12:53:56 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(Bingo! We have a winner!)
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