Raising the U.S. Federal Minimum Wage Watch

[AquaCityBoy]

you dont seem to want to deal with the reality that theres not the votes or pathway for 15 to happen in the covid bill. im sensing a theme in here

$10 isn't gonna pass in the covid bill either. fukk are you talking about?

 

[the cac mamba]

$10 isn't gonna pass in the covid bill either. fukk are you talking about?

says who?

YOU are the one saying 10 or 12 shouldnt be in the convo. manchin said 11

 

[AquaCityBoy]

says who?

YOU are the one saying 10 or 12 shouldnt be in the convo. manchin said 11

The Senate parliamentarian.

If Kamala won't override the parliamentarian's ruling for $15, they're not gonna try to push $10 instead like that's some loophole they were able to get around.

Never mind that $10 or $12 would lead to the Dems getting killed for 'caving' yet again.

 

[the cac mamba]

The Senate parliamentarian.

If Kamala won't override the parliamentarian's ruling for $15, they're not gonna try to push $10 instead like that's some loophole they were able to get around.

Never mind that $10 or $12 would lead to the Dems getting killed for 'caving' yet again.

oh, so all the complaining is pointless

 

[FAH1223]

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

so do you just want to fast forward to when 15 isnt in the covid bill and im right?

What are you going to be right about? The hike shouldn’t be pushed into the covid bill regardless of it being 10, 12, or 15...

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

They will and people will still complain.

This.

Within a year they'll be crying it wasn't enough, we need $25 an hour to do the all important job of flipping McDonalds burgers...

 

[DEAD7]

The most obvious problem with Ocasio-Cortez’s contention is that Denmark, like other Scandinavian nations, doesn’t have a statutory minimum wage. Industries and workers engage in sector-by-sector salary negotiations, which might well undermine intra-industry competition, but which is a much better idea than the flat national-wage floor being peddled by Democrats. So, this popular progressive talking point about Denmark’s miracle middle-class fast-food worker doesn’t make much sense to begin with.

Especially when one considers that the per-capita income in the United States is virtually the same as in Denmark — quite a feat given that we’re a pluralistic nation of around 330 million people that naturalizes another 900,000 people every year, many from poor nations, and that Denmark is a homogeneous country of fewer than 6 million citizens that, in recent years, has effectively shut down its borders to poor immigrants.

 

[FAH1223]

The most obvious problem with Ocasio-Cortez’s contention is that Denmark, like other Scandinavian nations, doesn’t have a statutory minimum wage. Industries and workers engage in sector-by-sector salary negotiations, which might well undermine intra-industry competition, but which is a much better idea than the flat national-wage floor being peddled by Democrats. So, this popular progressive talking point about Denmark’s miracle middle-class fast-food worker doesn’t make much sense to begin with.

Especially when one considers that the per-capita income in the United States is virtually the same as in Denmark — quite a feat given that we’re a pluralistic nation of around 330 million people that naturalizes another 900,000 people every year, many from poor nations, and that Denmark is a homogeneous country of fewer than 6 million citizens that, in recent years, has effectively shut down its borders to poor immigrants.

That’s cause they have real trade unions and workers have more power.

 

[MoneyTron]

That’s cause they have real trade unions and workers have more power.

She shouldn't be making that sound like an apples to apples comparison. It's misleading at best.

 

[DEAD7]

That’s cause they have real trade unions and workers have more power.

All of which make it a bad comparison...


@ AOC throwing out a side by side comparison with a homogeneous nation that doesn’t accept poor immigrants in attempt to make America look bad

 

[FAH1223]

She shouldn't be making that sound like an apples to apples comparison. It's misleading at best.

All of which make it a bad comparison...


@ AOC throwing out a side by side comparison with a homogeneous nation that doesn’t accept poor immigrants in attempt to make America look bad

That is a problem with progressives... they have to use American history to do the comparisons instead.

 

[MoneyTron]

That is a problem with progressives... they have to use American history to do the comparisons instead.

Not only that, she adds "considering the phase in", like an immediate hike of minimum wage wouldn't have wide reaching negative consequences across much of the country. She makes Bernie sound like dikk Durbin or some other random moderate Democrat sometimes.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Not only that, she adds "considering the phase in", like an immediate hike of minimum wage wouldn't have wide reaching negative consequences across much of the country. She makes Bernie sound like dikk Durbin or some other random moderate Democrat sometimes.

she sounds like half the posters on this board, it sounds good, reality be damned!

 

[Hood Critic]

A lot of this conversation could be avoided/corrected by those 3 little evil socialist letters: U-B-I.