Posted on 02/26/2021 8:51:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, prominently mentioned as a possible presidential contender in 2024, is running hard to separate himself from the potential pack of candidates.
While Hawley’s numbers took a hit following the Capitol riot of January 6, he is still broadly popular with Republican voters in Missouri and has actually improved his standing with the GOP nationwide. His name recognition has soared 23 points, according to a recent Morning Consult poll.
Hawley is proposing an alternative to the $15-an-hour minimum-wage hike currently in the pandemic relief bill being considered by Congress. His idea centers around a tax credit to workers making $16.50 or less.
Under the proposed bill, those making less than $16.50 per hour will receive a refundable tax credit worth 50 percent of the difference, paid out in quarterly installments. For example, if a worker is making $12 per hour, he or she would be eligible for a $2.25 per hour credit.
The $16.50 cutoff could increase over time, as it would be connected to the Consumer Price Index, a measurement of the average cost of consumer goods and services, such as transportation, food and medical care.
The kicker is that the increase would be paid for by the federal government to the tune of about $200 billion. Hawley would also support a $15-an-hour minimum wage for those who work at corporations that make at least $1 billion a year.
Blue collar workers have shouldered the worst of the pandemic. They deserve to keep more of their hard-earned money. They deserve a pay raise. I am introducing new legislation to give them one https://t.co/85NHsw2KCG
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) February 24, 2021
Only American workers with valid Social Security numbers would be eligible, meaning non-U.S. citizens and illegal aliens would be excluded.
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The biggest corporations in America can afford to pay their workers $15 an hour. Raise the minimum wage for big business, not small business
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) February 23, 2021
Pathetic panderer.
It’s called the earned income credit.
The correct minimum wage is $0.00 per hour.
When the minimum wage was raised to $15 an hour in one or two states, I recall articles reporting that employees were asking that their hours be reduced because they were now making too much money to qualify for welfare benefits.
I’m tired of big business being allowed to use welfare and tax law to subsidize employees being paid under market wages. If the market requires $15 an hour that should be the bottom line. And if corporations pay less they wont find needed employees. Let the free market prevail without the government being involved. Of course that means no illegal or imported employees such as we get that distort market wages.
But I’m also a believer that we need to support those in the GOP rather than fragmenting it. It takes time.
If these economic illiterates raise the minimum to $15, a lot of people are going to find out what $0.00 means
Another article pointed out that this would encourage employers paying $15 an hour to cut employee pay and then let the government pick up the difference. Essentially it’s a handout to business, putting a chunk of their payroll onto the feds.
How about just lowering the tax rates to 12% up to the Social Security (FICA) Cap, then 25% to 1,000,000 bux, then 33%? Trump proposed something similar a number of years ago.
I’ve been stationed in countries where people work 7 days a week just to survive. Eliminating the minimum wage would be a great experiment to try but me thinks it would be a slippery slope to the same conditions. As long as there are people doing well the envy and resentment will be there. We have a lot more people doing well and that spreads the resentment. The siren call of socialism will happen all of a sudden and be more violent.
Although it is exactly what’s needed, tax credits and tax cuts - instead of minimum wage and the idiotic, misnamed “stimulus” - will be fully resisted by the Left who will never in a million years opt for economically sound tax credits and tax cuts.
RE: The correct minimum wage is $0.00 per hour.
The following countries do not have a minimum wage:
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Austria
I don’t see anyone in these countries starving or having homeless problems as dire as the USA.
Everyone working at less than a living wage is going to rely on our taxes for welfare and government assistance of all sorts.
Living wages end that socialism.
Here’s another idea. Eliminate the minimum wage and find a way to PROVE one has worked 2k hours in any given year. Paycheck stubs. LABOR tax every worker at 10%, put the money in a pool and divy it up at the end of EACH year. Kinda like a fluctuating basic income. To hell with those that don’t work. Those that do will be too tired to cause trouble.
The negative.It’s really not the governments business ho much you make.
Hong Kong has a minimum wage. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Austria all have unions or government entities which negotiate collective bargaining agreements on wages.
Got any examples?
States HAVE the power to raise their minimum wages. There is nothing stopping NY or CA or IL from committing economic suicide and raising their minimum-wages to $15, or $100 bucks an hour.
Once again, Republicans are accepting the Left's premise and then offering a compromise which will advance the leftist agenda more, while Republicans will beat their chests and brag to conservatives how they "fought" to lower the $15 to something like $12 or $13 an hour.
In terms of political discussion, that's a non-starter. Nobody in D.C. has the balls to advocate this. Therefore, the debate needs to be centered around the 10th Amendment.
Make the 10th Amendment argument that states already have the power to raise the minimum-wage, and that it can be abolished at the federal level. Tell voters to contact their state legislators and demand a higher minimum-wage - not the federal gov't.
Watch how fast the Left drops this stupid knee-jerk issue.
Seal the borders tight...expel the 30 million wetbacks currently living here...and wages would naturally rise to $15/hr...or more.
JOSH IS GOING THE WAY OF COTTON AND ROMNEY.
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