House passes bill to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour

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[conservative98]

The House of Representatives approved the Raise the Wage Act Thursday, which would boost the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade.

In a 231-199 vote along party lines, the House passed the legislation that would increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, more than double the current rate of $7.25. In an even more drastic increase, the bill calls for having the same minimum wage for tipped workers, raising it from $2.13 an hour.

[central_va]

The minimum wage has been tested by SCOTUS already. That is my understanding.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Senate should approve it, send it to Trump’s desk and have him veto it saying it’s not enough. Then change it to 30 an hour, make illegal minimum wage 35 an hour and send it back.

[Rurudyne]

Wasn’t it last year we learned about young people who couldn’t change a light bulb?

[al_c]

Next up: self-order kiosks and self-checkout everywhere.

[Retvet]

Since they are causing automatic inflation are all,people on the government dole going to get a proportional raise at the same time?

[grobdriver]

Insanity.

[nopardons]

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.

[StoneWall Brigade]

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.

[Heartlander2]

What are you talking about?

[central_va]

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.

[Heartlander2]

I make $45/hour and I don’t eat steak.

[bagman]

I would prefer a minimum rate of $200/hr rather than a measly $115. Go big or go home!

[Rurudyne]

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?

[kabar]

DOA in the Senate.

[central_va]

Tariffs are socialist/communistic

Explain 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)

[central_va]

There are many cases involving the Constitutionality of the minimum wage. Google it yourself.

[kabar]

Also gets the Reps on the record. The Dems will try to use the no vote against them.

[central_va]

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]

[yldstrk]

I guess we will be letting people go.