If (BIG IF) Senators and Representatives worked a forty hour week, every week, their minimal pay would be $83.65 per hour. They feel $15.00 is too much. They need to make concessions so that they can get into the real world and live like the people that they represent!
yeah the gops in senate say we can not afford to help poor people by giving them $15 an hour minimums wage but had no problem giving $1.8 trillion to billionaires and huge business who donate to the campaigns
I do support a meaningful increase in minimum wage, along with other things like tax credits to try to boost income and economic viability in the lower income ranges. That said, I think trying to push it through with the Covid-19 relief package is a mistake. The parliamentarian’s decision is actually a gift to the Democrats, allowing them to remove it w/o taking the blame from their progressive wing.
A significant change in policy, assuming the intend it to be lasting, needs to be built properly and have distinguishable support on it’s own.
Opposition to a livable minimum wage has always seemed like a holdover from the days of slavery—the attitude that workers are just another cost factor in a business (the one most easily cut when profits are down), that profit is more important than the people helping provide that profit, that workers should ‘be grateful to have a job’ even if it doesn’t pay enough to support them. I remember hearing about a time in American business that company owners respected their workers, paid them reasonable wages, knew them and their families personally. But I’m not sure when, if ever, that really existed.
MaryBethJavorek1 about 3 years ago
If (BIG IF) Senators and Representatives worked a forty hour week, every week, their minimal pay would be $83.65 per hour. They feel $15.00 is too much. They need to make concessions so that they can get into the real world and live like the people that they represent!
Ally2005 about 3 years ago
Heaven forbid that the workers at the bottom of the economic ladder get a survivable wage. The Republicons won’t stand for that.
TrulyTexan about 3 years ago
Can anyone name a single action of the republicans over the last 50 years that has not done actual harm or only benefitted themselves?
nyg16 about 3 years ago
yeah the gops in senate say we can not afford to help poor people by giving them $15 an hour minimums wage but had no problem giving $1.8 trillion to billionaires and huge business who donate to the campaigns
gnorth22 Premium Member about 3 years ago
I do support a meaningful increase in minimum wage, along with other things like tax credits to try to boost income and economic viability in the lower income ranges. That said, I think trying to push it through with the Covid-19 relief package is a mistake. The parliamentarian’s decision is actually a gift to the Democrats, allowing them to remove it w/o taking the blame from their progressive wing.
A significant change in policy, assuming the intend it to be lasting, needs to be built properly and have distinguishable support on it’s own.
GreenT267 about 3 years ago
Opposition to a livable minimum wage has always seemed like a holdover from the days of slavery—the attitude that workers are just another cost factor in a business (the one most easily cut when profits are down), that profit is more important than the people helping provide that profit, that workers should ‘be grateful to have a job’ even if it doesn’t pay enough to support them. I remember hearing about a time in American business that company owners respected their workers, paid them reasonable wages, knew them and their families personally. But I’m not sure when, if ever, that really existed.
lobo1939 about 3 years ago
Any day I don’t have a Matt Davies’ toon is a bad day for me.