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I wonder if the Congress will forgo it's own cost of living increase?
Doubtful.
To all but the newbies in Congress, their paychecks are like a penny you see on the ground. Youmightnot even bother to bend over to pick it up. To them, its all about the kickbacks.
Already very wealthy Billionaires and ultra-large companies have made HUGE profits during this pandemic (Wal-mart, Amazon, etc.).
Where is the complaint about that?
Yet it's "insanity" to believe that people at the bottom of the economic ladder should receive closer to a living wage.
Instead, we have to up the food stamps and social benefits and keep sending out stimulus checks so they can survive, all at the expense of indebting the country even further and at the expense of hard working tax payers.
If a company cannot pay their workers a decent wage, and instead expect taxpayers to subsidize their workers where they are falling short, they shouldn't be in business.
Minimum wage jobs are for teens or those working their way through school to build work ethic while learning responsibility. Not for grown adults raising a family. If you’re 30+ yrs old complaining about how you can’t support yourself and your family on minimum wage, then you only need to look in the mirror when trying to find someone to blame for your situation.
Almost doubling the minimum wage will only kill jobs. Not create more.
Minimum wage jobs are for teens or those working their way through school to build work ethic while learning responsibility. Not for grown adults raising a family. If you’re 30+ yrs old complaining about how you can’t support yourself and your family on minimum wage, then you only need to look in the mirror when trying to find someone to blame for your situation.
Almost doubling the minimum wage will only kill jobs. Not create more.
This. It will also accelerate automation, so add more jobs to the loss category.
the "during a pandemic" qualifier seems pretty pointless. these things happen once a century.
MW should be determined at the local level, not national.
Yet it's "insanity" to believe that people at the bottom of the economic ladder should receive closer to a living wage.
Most boomers have bought the trickle-down economics lie hook line and sinker. After 40 years of that, we've only watched our entire country and way of life in this country descend into the sewer. Now we have a second Great Depression on our hands. When are we going to try something other than more tax cuts and handouts to billionaires?
I actually agree that a sudden jump to $15/hr right now, with the economy in it's current condition, probably isn't a good idea but it needs to happen as soon as it can. Hopefully things will look better economically by 2025 or 2027.
What a relief for small business owners. Only half have survived the forced closures, and the Democrats answer is to double their compensation expenses when they finally ARE allowed to open? All that would have meant would be more business closures, and more people out of work.
Perhaps in a year or so, when everyone has been vaccinated, and businesses have had some time to regain their footing and get back into the black, we can consider a modest increase to about $9 or hour since there hasn't been any adjustment made for inflation for many years. But to do it now would be pure liberal idiocy.
No they did not. What passed was meaningless. It was opposition to raising the wage to $15 during the pandemic, yes. But Biden's bill does not do that. It raises it only to $9.60 this year and to $15 OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS. So the vote was over something that is not even in the bill. Posturing.
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