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General Category => Elections 2020 => Topic started by: Hoodat on February 11, 2020, 01:20:08 am

Title: Tom Steyer promises $22 minimum wage if elected president
Post by: Hoodat on February 11, 2020, 01:20:08 am

Tom Steyer promises $22 minimum wage if elected president

by Tim Pearce     |     February 10, 2020 03:09 PM

Billionaire activist and 2020 Democrat Tom Steyer pledged to push for a $22 minimum wage if he wins the White House in November.

Steyer made the pledge while campaigning in Winnsboro, South Carolina, on Sunday. His minimum wage standard is the highest so far of the Democratic presidential primary field.

The federal minimum wage has sat at $7.25 for the past decade. Washington, D.C., and 29 states have set higher standards, however.  .  .  .

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/tom-steyer-promises-22-minimum-wage-if-elected-president (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/tom-steyer-promises-22-minimum-wage-if-elected-president)

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Why stop at $22?  Why not make it $100/hr?  Of course when it comes to Steyer's own money, he never implemented a $22/hr minimum wage for his own employees.

Title: Re: Tom Steyer promises $22 minimum wage if elected president
Post by: andy58-in-nh on February 11, 2020, 01:43:17 am

Yeah!!! Right on!!!! Entry-level workers with no experience deserve $45,000 a year to start!!! And free health care! And free education! And free everything else because when you're a multi-billionaire who got rich and powerful hawking hedge fund investments to his Hollywood pals, there's no limit to what you imagine you can forcibly pilfer from people who actually create real products and services, which Tom Steyer couldn't figure out how to do if you held a gun to his head and forced him to read an Economics 101 textbook.

Title: Re: Tom Steyer promises $22 minimum wage if elected president
Post by: Applewood on February 11, 2020, 02:14:53 am

Shouldn't have federal or state minimum wages.  Government should not be dictating to business how much money employees should be paid.  If you aren't happy with the wages you are getting from one employer, move on to another employer who will pay you what you want.  Or how about getting an education in a different field that pays better? 

Title: Re: Tom Steyer promises $22 minimum wage if elected president
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on February 11, 2020, 02:44:19 am

If one is going to force businesses to pay people, why stop at $22/hr?

Why not $30?  Or $100?

Title: Re: Tom Steyer promises $22 minimum wage if elected president
Post by: Hoodat on February 11, 2020, 03:17:19 am

Quote from: Applewood on February 11, 2020, 02:14:53 am

Shouldn't have federal or state minimum wages.  Government should not be dictating to business how much money employees should be paid.

Correctamundo!

Title: Re: Tom Steyer promises $22 minimum wage if elected president
Post by: catfish1957 on February 11, 2020, 03:50:36 am

$10 Big Macs here we come.

Title: Re: Tom Steyer promises $22 minimum wage if elected president
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on February 11, 2020, 04:11:22 am

Quote from: catfish1957 on February 11, 2020, 03:50:36 am

$10 Big Macs here we come.

Visited Jerusalem a couple of years ago, and after 10 days of eating hummus couldn't wait to eat a burger.

Found a McDonalds there which had a $15 Big Mac, which I paid for.

Later I found out it was the most expensive McDonalds in the world.

Title: Re: Tom Steyer promises $22 minimum wage if elected president
Post by: DB on February 11, 2020, 05:37:10 am

Politicians, always offering free stuff using other peoples money for votes by force of law...

And more brazen about it than ever...