Listening to the stuff they aren’t saying on TV (in my mind), what I’m hearing is that the Democrats who will next be running in tight races against a well funded Trumpist want to not piss of the “fiscal conservatives” who might vote against them. Politics is a LOT twistier† than anything I could tolerate doing, so I’m not real good at reading motive. But I’ve been watching this particular mud-wrestling match for longer than Rall has, and I figure I must have learned something!
† “Twisty” is a nicer word than the first three or four I thought of…
The Greedy Old Pricks sling their nonsense about a living wage hurting small businesses and consumers as if they really care about them. I call BS! They only care about investors’ returns. How much is enough?
Unions are about a lot more than dollars per hour. Benefits, working conditions, clear and written grievance process, pension or 40K programs. Benefits alone can be worth more than hourly wage increments. However the minimum wage really does have to go up. It just has to because some places will never unionize, they will just outsource. In Missouri the only places still paying minimum wage are mostly in the service industries (Tip your server!!)
Is Ted’s pendulum finally beginning to swing left again? If so I hope it isn’t temporary. Last panel illustrates that the Republicans will never supports the working person. Never has!
When the Democrats saw that the Senate Parliamentarian had removed the $15 Minimum Wage reqirementfrom the COVID-19 Relief bill, the Democrats reintroduced it in the Raise the Wage Act on Friday. What is once again clear that is that the $15 an hour would incrementally go into effect. This is true of the Raise the Wage Act and the COVID-19 bill. Neither the Media nor either Party has made this clear. Not voting of the wage increase is even more inexcusable!
The Raise the Wage Act would increase the pay floor to $9.50 an hour this year, then to $11 next year. The minimum wage would rise to $12.50 per hour in 2023, $14 in 2024 and then $15 in 2025. – CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/26/democrats-reintroduce-15-minimum-wage-bill-with-unified-control-of-congress.html
I am getting tired of subsidizing the low wages employers pay their workers. My taxes pay to subsidize food, healthcare, and housing of these workers, because their employers won’t pay a livable wage. Don’t tell me prices will go up. Minimum wage hasn’t moved in over a decade. Have prices risen since then?
Remember that it is Republican obstruction that keeps this from happening. Keep voting in record turn outs. CPAC should be a lesson to us about which way the R’s are trending.
Not sure that “Republicans want workers to pay their bosses” is a stretch, although I don’t doubt that there are some who feel that way… do know that more than once (over my working career) we had management who wanted to charge workers for office space and utilities (while requiring those workers to work in the company’s offices)… sometimes they targeted contract customers (which would be double-dipping, since overhead expenses were already factored into the contract price) and sometimes they targeted contractors (whom they put into that position by refusing to hire workers directly to the company payroll)…
Was U.S. Wrong About Attack That Nearly Started a War With Iran?
Iraqi military and intelligence officials have raised doubts about who fired the rockets that started a dangerous spiral of events.
The rockets wounded six people and killed an American contractor, setting off a chain of events that brought the United States and Iran to the brink of war.
The civilian contractor who was killed, an Iraqi-born American named Nawres Waleed Hamid, was working as an interpreter for the Americans.
Iraqi officials say many unanswered questions remain about who was responsible for the K-1 attack.
“The identity still has not been confirmed,” said Abdul Hussain al-Hunain, an aide to Mr. Abdul Mahdi who served as prime minister until Saturday. “There are certain suspicions and I do not claim to know everything, but it be could ISIS or the Baath Party,” he said, referring to disgruntled remnants of the Sunni establishment that held sway over Iraq before the American invasion of 2003. “The situation is complicated in Iraq.”
Hardee’s CEO Puzder who was Trump’s Labor Secretary, had said that he would raise prices to cover the raise to $15/hour plus 25% in the first year, even though the minimum wage is planned as a gradual change over several years.
Far too many of these companies are subsidized by underpaying their employees so they need to get food stamps and other government assistance. The average restaurant / food service CEO makes 721 times what their minimum wage employees make.
@superposition Because in late capitalism the only way for already-efficient industries to make profits is through lowered wages (or automation). Although, I like your idea, but that ain’t how the system of capital and labor works.
Concretionist about 3 years ago
Listening to the stuff they aren’t saying on TV (in my mind), what I’m hearing is that the Democrats who will next be running in tight races against a well funded Trumpist want to not piss of the “fiscal conservatives” who might vote against them. Politics is a LOT twistier† than anything I could tolerate doing, so I’m not real good at reading motive. But I’ve been watching this particular mud-wrestling match for longer than Rall has, and I figure I must have learned something!
† “Twisty” is a nicer word than the first three or four I thought of…
mattro65 about 3 years ago
The Greedy Old Pricks sling their nonsense about a living wage hurting small businesses and consumers as if they really care about them. I call BS! They only care about investors’ returns. How much is enough?
Yontrop about 3 years ago
Why the focus on the federal minimum wage? How about empowering unions and taking real steps to do something about income inequality?
wahsahzie about 3 years ago
Unions are about a lot more than dollars per hour. Benefits, working conditions, clear and written grievance process, pension or 40K programs. Benefits alone can be worth more than hourly wage increments. However the minimum wage really does have to go up. It just has to because some places will never unionize, they will just outsource. In Missouri the only places still paying minimum wage are mostly in the service industries (Tip your server!!)
superposition about 3 years ago
Why isn’t minimum wage an auto-adjusting function/percentage of GDP so there is no time wasted on political bickering?
The Butler about 3 years ago
Is Ted’s pendulum finally beginning to swing left again? If so I hope it isn’t temporary. Last panel illustrates that the Republicans will never supports the working person. Never has!
Red Zinger about 3 years ago
When the Democrats saw that the Senate Parliamentarian had removed the $15 Minimum Wage reqirementfrom the COVID-19 Relief bill, the Democrats reintroduced it in the Raise the Wage Act on Friday. What is once again clear that is that the $15 an hour would incrementally go into effect. This is true of the Raise the Wage Act and the COVID-19 bill. Neither the Media nor either Party has made this clear. Not voting of the wage increase is even more inexcusable!
The Raise the Wage Act would increase the pay floor to $9.50 an hour this year, then to $11 next year. The minimum wage would rise to $12.50 per hour in 2023, $14 in 2024 and then $15 in 2025. – CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/26/democrats-reintroduce-15-minimum-wage-bill-with-unified-control-of-congress.html
nickditoro Premium Member about 3 years ago
Trump 2024!!!
rossevrymn about 3 years ago
Ted’s plan starts with the GOP congresspeople unexisting.
piper_gilbert about 3 years ago
I am getting tired of subsidizing the low wages employers pay their workers. My taxes pay to subsidize food, healthcare, and housing of these workers, because their employers won’t pay a livable wage. Don’t tell me prices will go up. Minimum wage hasn’t moved in over a decade. Have prices risen since then?
Raging Moderate about 3 years ago
Remember that it is Republican obstruction that keeps this from happening. Keep voting in record turn outs. CPAC should be a lesson to us about which way the R’s are trending.
Teto85 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Ted gets one every once in a while. Good boy.
countoftowergrove about 3 years ago
Not disagreeable today, Theodore, and borders on the humorous.
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
Costco starting wage is $16 an hour.
ferddo about 3 years ago
Not sure that “Republicans want workers to pay their bosses” is a stretch, although I don’t doubt that there are some who feel that way… do know that more than once (over my working career) we had management who wanted to charge workers for office space and utilities (while requiring those workers to work in the company’s offices)… sometimes they targeted contract customers (which would be double-dipping, since overhead expenses were already factored into the contract price) and sometimes they targeted contractors (whom they put into that position by refusing to hire workers directly to the company payroll)…
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
Why did we kill 27 people because one contractor was accidentally blown up?
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
Was U.S. Wrong About Attack That Nearly Started a War With Iran?
Iraqi military and intelligence officials have raised doubts about who fired the rockets that started a dangerous spiral of events.
The rockets wounded six people and killed an American contractor, setting off a chain of events that brought the United States and Iran to the brink of war.
The civilian contractor who was killed, an Iraqi-born American named Nawres Waleed Hamid, was working as an interpreter for the Americans.
Iraqi officials say many unanswered questions remain about who was responsible for the K-1 attack.
“The identity still has not been confirmed,” said Abdul Hussain al-Hunain, an aide to Mr. Abdul Mahdi who served as prime minister until Saturday. “There are certain suspicions and I do not claim to know everything, but it be could ISIS or the Baath Party,” he said, referring to disgruntled remnants of the Sunni establishment that held sway over Iraq before the American invasion of 2003. “The situation is complicated in Iraq.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/world/middleeast/iraq-iran-hezbollah-evidence.html
Nantucket Premium Member about 3 years ago
Hardee’s CEO Puzder who was Trump’s Labor Secretary, had said that he would raise prices to cover the raise to $15/hour plus 25% in the first year, even though the minimum wage is planned as a gradual change over several years.
Far too many of these companies are subsidized by underpaying their employees so they need to get food stamps and other government assistance. The average restaurant / food service CEO makes 721 times what their minimum wage employees make.
grumpypophobart about 3 years ago
Oh yes, the Capitalist Utopia….workers paying for the privilege of working!
IDEALeducation about 3 years ago
@superposition Because in late capitalism the only way for already-efficient industries to make profits is through lowered wages (or automation). Although, I like your idea, but that ain’t how the system of capital and labor works.