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General Category => Economy/Business => Topic started by: 240B on May 28, 2017, 05:54:29 pm
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Politico
By ELANA SCHOR
05/25/2017 01:54 PM EDT
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday vowed to take up a $15 minimum wage in the first 100 hours of the next Congress if Democrats take back the chamber next year.
Pelosi offered the commitment while appearing alongside fellow Democratic leaders and advocates to release new legislation raising the minimum wage to $15. Her comments offer an early view at Democrats' potential agenda for the House if they can regain control in 2018, a long-shot prospect that some in the party think could grow increasingly more realistic given President Donald Trump and the GOP's recent struggles.
If "we win the election," Pelosi told the gathered audience, "in the first 100 hours we will pass a $15 minimum wage."
(more)
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/25/democrats-2018-agenda-minimum-wage-increase-238828
Not only is this a blatant political 'bribe' to minimum wage workers to get them to vote for Democrats, the idea that Democrats think increasing the minimum wage by 207% will have no ramifications, is nothing short of stunningly stupid. Mass layoffs, mass unemployment, will surely follow this, as sure as night follows day.
If you want to see what a $15 minimum wage will do to the national economy, just take a look at what happened to Seattle. It doesn't 'help' anything. All it does is to cause a massive increase in the number of people working 'off the books'.
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Politico
By ELANA SCHOR
05/25/2017 01:54 PM EDT
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday vowed to take up a $15 minimum wage in the first 100 hours of the next Congress if Democrats take back the chamber next year.
Pelosi offered the commitment while appearing alongside fellow Democratic leaders and advocates to release new legislation raising the minimum wage to $15. Her comments offer an early view at Democrats' potential agenda for the House if they can regain control in 2018, a long-shot prospect that some in the party think could grow increasingly more realistic given President Donald Trump and the GOP's recent struggles.
If "we win the election," Pelosi told the gathered audience, "in the first 100 hours we will pass a $15 minimum wage."
(more)
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/25/democrats-2018-agenda-minimum-wage-increase-238828
Not only is this a blatant political 'bribe' to minimum wage workers to get them to vote for Democrats, the idea that Democrats think increasing the minimum wage by 207% will have no ramifications, is nothing short of stunningly stupid. Mass layoffs, mass unemployment, will surely follow this, as sure as night follows day.
If you want to see what a $15 minimum wage will do to the national economy, just take a look at what happened to Seattle. It doesn't 'help' anything. All it does is to cause a massive increase in the number of people working 'off the books'.
They get the votes, then the voters are out of work.................dem voter for life living off taxpayer money. **nononono*
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The Dems had control during the 8 years of Obama and a groveling Republican majority in both houses of congress. Why didn't they pass the $15 an hour minimum wage then?
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The Dems had control during the 8 years of Obama and a groveling Republican majority in both houses of congress. Why didn't they pass the $15 an hour minimum wage then?
Because 0 would have signed it. This way they can use the issue over and over again.
Why haven't the Republicans passed a full ACA repeal now that they have the presidency?