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House passes bill to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
Fox News ^ | Ronn Blitzer | Fox News

Posted on 07/18/2019 11:48:07 AM PDT by 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.

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KEYWORDS: 116th; congress; fakenews; killthejobsact; minimumwage; pelosi; raisethewageact; socialism; workforce
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To: cuban leaf

No doubt my SS chk will adjust an equal % as well. $$$$$


61 posted on 07/18/2019 12:09:26 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: conservative98

Who is making minimum wage working for the feds?


62 posted on 07/18/2019 12:09:47 PM PDT by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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To: JBW1949
I doubt this will make it through the Senate...

Probably not. But if it does, don't be too surprised if Trump signs it. He was elected largely because the population was upset over stagnant wages. He might find it hard to say no on this.


63 posted on 07/18/2019 12:10:01 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: david1292

Exactly. They can kiss their tips goodbye.. and possibly their jobs.


64 posted on 07/18/2019 12:10:20 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I hope he does sign it. It takes the issue off the table and the GOP loses the moniker of not being for “the little guy”. win-win.


65 posted on 07/18/2019 12:11:35 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: conservative98

If Minimum wage laws worked to alleviate poverty then we should still be working for 25 cents an hour, in real silver.

In five years they will be demanding $20 an hour because they can’t get by on $15.


66 posted on 07/18/2019 12:11:46 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: conservative98

Correction: House passes bill to bring back strong inflation and destroy small business.


67 posted on 07/18/2019 12:13:07 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: conservative98

There is no delegated power given to Congress for having a federal minimum wage law.

The Democrats are lawless, Constitution hating sacks of shit, and have been since FDR and company kicked governance by constitutional means to the curb, fulfilling so-called “progressive” dreams that they’d been dreaming against the Republic since the 19th century.

I wish Republicans were really willing to reverse this, but they aren’t. Mr No Repeal Eisenhower set the tone for that.


68 posted on 07/18/2019 12:13:39 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Most people don’t work for small businesses, own a small business or work at low or no skill job. Most people don’t give crap about this. Pass it. Sign it.


69 posted on 07/18/2019 12:13:52 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: IC Ken

Does a Federal minimum wage pass constitutional muster. That would be an interesting court case.


70 posted on 07/18/2019 12:14:07 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

I, for one, will cease to pay tips. And am likely to cease going to restaurants in light of the likely higher prices on the menu AND the increase in less-than-adequate service and product quality.


71 posted on 07/18/2019 12:14:23 PM PDT by Heartlander2
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To: central_va
Wages cannot seem to be suppressed enough for the GOP. I guess this will prove it again.

To not artificially raise wages - for those lucky enough to remain employed - is not to "suppress" them. As price goes up, demand goes down ... basic economics.

72 posted on 07/18/2019 12:15:01 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Gay State Conservative
Of course there's a rider attached to the bill giving Congress and Federal judges a raise to $225,000 a year.

I have always maintained that one of the first congressional reforms that I would put into place is the requirement that any congressional actions on pay raises or benefits for members or staff must be a separate bill with a mandatory roll-call vote.

73 posted on 07/18/2019 12:15:04 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: Heartlander2

Cook your own dang food then.


74 posted on 07/18/2019 12:15:05 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: david1292

No more tipping servers if they are getting paid that much and cost of the menu will soar.
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Restaurants will disappear.


75 posted on 07/18/2019 12:15:10 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: jazusamo

Well, POTUS might SIGH, if it gets to his desk, but I don’t think he will sign it.


76 posted on 07/18/2019 12:16:01 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: rktman

Yeah, I’m going on SS starting next year (age 66), and will continue working as well, at least until the mortgage is at zero. My wife’s SS was just shy of of our mortgage payment until last year. She got a bump that puts it just over.


77 posted on 07/18/2019 12:16:16 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: central_va

Are you forgetting the way relative wages get linked in negotiations?

In Europe they once had a system of treaties that some thought would make war so unthinkable that it would prevent wars.

WW1 was the result.

People can set off a trap others unknowingly laid before them.


78 posted on 07/18/2019 12:17:09 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: conservative98

Well there will go the jobs.


79 posted on 07/18/2019 12:18:09 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: NobleFree
Except this the same GOP that wants to import 300,000 new H-1B visa holders to replace those of us that actually did "learn to code". F the GOP. Pass it. Sign it.

Its a dog eat dog world. I learned the truth of that here.

80 posted on 07/18/2019 12:18:10 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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