Posted on 02/23/2021 2:40:01 PM PST by DoodleDawg
Two Republican senators made a counterproposal to Democrats on the minimum wage Tuesday, offering to gradually hike the federal wage floor to $10 per hour while requiring employers to use E-Verify to crack down on undocumented workers.
The plan put forth by GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and Mitt Romney (Utah) falls well short of the $15 hourly wage that progressives in both the House and Senate are pushing for. Its immigration provisions could also draw stiff resistance from Democrats as well as business groups.
Romney, one of the few moderate Republicans known to cross the aisle to work with Democrats, argued that the more modest wage increase would prevent job losses and that the expanded use of E-Verify would discourage undocumented workers from entering the U.S.
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I think Sweden and Iceland are more Free Market than us currently, which kind of tells you something.
Ah, the Me Too Republicans ... why ever since the days of FDR they’ve been eager to say that they too have a plan just as the Democrats do!
More realistic. 10 bucks is a jump but not like 15. Think about it. With the virus we have lost so many small businesses and just businesses in general. Some will not open again. Some will try, if they try and have to pay twice as much for a employee then they either try to operate on half staff or not open. If the do open with half staff they will have to raise prices and service will be bad.
I can think of seven or less.
More like "We want to look like we want the same as the Democrats but just make sure it doesn't go anywhere."
It is all VOODOO economics!
The REAL minimum wage should be $0.00!
pandering morons
so we will now be portrayed by libtard democrat media as good guys and win elections doing this?
It’s not disgraceful at all—it’s proper.
A lot of higher wage jobs are tied to the minimum wage. Not a good time for a big ripple effect to hit employers. Where were these clowns when DJT had things humming?
This is a pro working class move on the GOP's part. This surprises me. The Cheap Labor Express is not happy.
I think the 13th Amendment did away with that.
That’s profound. Please explain how businesses absorb the government increasing their costs, without passing those costs onto their customers.
Typical Dem-Lite RINO GOPe scum.
What happens to McDonalds prices when the price of hamburger meat doubled since 2005? The cost of electricity doubles? Insurance costs skyrocket? Seems like labor going up marginally is an existential crises but nothing else is....
Yet another example of why both parties are two cheeks on the same a$$
Do you really think those companies pay more for those issues than they do for staffing? It is my understanding that staffing is the biggest expense most companies face. Raising minimum wage is a major expense. And “working class” is a communist term intended to insinuate that lower paid employees are responsible for all production and profit.
And places like Mississippi would still be paying 50 cents an hour.
Typical Republicans. Always accepting the premise of the Left. Now watch a compromise gets hashed out, say $12.50 an hour and then the Republicans will beat their chest and brag about how they stopped the $15. This is what the Republicans have always done instead of just being ideologically opposed to everything the Left has done.
And their reward will be the Democrat media portraying the GOP as having no concern or compassion for the working poor.
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