Posted on 02/13/2024 3:20:35 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Do you think she would actually understand it?
Nah...
They are already whining about an $18 hamburger. How about a $50 hamburger with another $20 for a drink and fries.
Just looked her up, she is a former member (well she “worked with them”) of the Black Panthers.
Equivalent of the KKK for racist blacks.
Agreed, she probably wouldn’t understand it. I however, am reading it, and I only have a high school diploma.
Minimum wage was never meant to be a living wage income.
If you want to earn enough to support yourself, get a real job.
You want food deserts? This is how you get food deserts.
The law was passed to prevent black contractors from underbidding white unionized contractors.
https://ichthyoid.writeas.com/minimum-wage-laws-basic-economics-by-thomas-sowell-ch
In the United States, before federal minimum wage laws became a thing in the 1930's, black unemployment rate was actually lower than white unemployment. In the 1930's several laws were enacted, including the Davis Bacon Act of 1931, the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which all set or raised minimum wage laws at a federal level. Furthermore, the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 promoted unionization. While the National Industrial Recovery Act was eventually knocked down for being unconstitutional, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 which came later was upheld.
What was the effect of these laws? Black unemployment surpassed that of whites in 1948. By the time 1949 came around, teenage black unemployment rate went to almost 16%, and by the time we get to 1971, it was two times that, and stayed that way that until 1997. In 2009, it was more than three times that, which means it was almost 50%.
We can't blame these things on lack of education, skills, and racism. After all, it was far worse in the early and mid twentieth century for black Americans. The truth is that it can only be associated with one thing—the minimum wage laws that were instituted and continued since then.
A $50 minimum wage?
Dont these people understand that it would simply raise the price of everything.
Wage controls don’t work.
Wait until these immigrants get work papers. The 7.50 Minimum wage will look high.
Go for $100.
It is not their money.
Lol.
Good for her. Hope she wins.
A McDonald’s burger would then be $40 bucks. The drink would be $25. And the fries would be $30. Add in tax and you better have more in your pocket than a hundred dollar bill.
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With AI likely to wipe out millions of white-collar workers, and robotics to do the same to blue-collar workers, this proposal will merely accelerate universal unemployment.
With the way the Obama/Biden regime is printing money, I expect $10,000 an hour will be a reasonable minimum wage. Of course, it will equal $0.25 an hour in 2020 dollars.
"Dem Senate Contender Wants $50 Minimum Wage"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
If I understand OP correctly, it's no surprise that a post-17th Amendment ratification candidate for federal Senate seems to be clueless that the states have never expressly given the feds the specific power to set a national minimum wage.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936
Regarding trying to get elected as federal lawmaker by "promising" to raise so-called national minimum wage, patriots are reminded of the following. Justice Joseph Story had volunteered an example list of commerce-related issues that, although intimately (Story's word) related to commerce, are not a part of Congress's Commerce Clause powers.
Included in this list of prohibited federal government powers is setting the wages of labor, Congress therefore having no constitutional authority to set a national minimum wage imo.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
"The question comes to this, whether a power, exclusively for the regulation of commerce, is a power for the regulation of manufactures? The statement of such a question would seem to involve its own answer. Can a power, granted for one purpose, be transferred to another? If it can, where is the limitation in the constitution? Are not commerce and manufactures as distinct, as commerce and agriculture? If they are, how can a power to regulate one arise from a power to regulate the other? It is true, that commerce and manufactures are, or may be, intimately connected with each other. A regulation of one may injuriously or beneficially affect the other. But that is not the point in controversy. It is, whether congress has a right to regulate that, which is not committed to it, under a power, which is committed to it, simply because there is, or may be an intimate connexion between the powers. If this were admitted, the enumeration of the powers of congress would be wholly unnecessary and nugatory. Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments [emphases added]." —Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2:§§ 1073--91
And in addition to Lee needing to get up to speed with the fed's constitutionally limited domestic policy powers, which is arguably mainly delivering the mail, she also needs to double-check her minimum wage math.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
Over 2000 Pizza Delivery Drivers Lose Jobs Due to $20 Minimum Wage Increase (12.28.23)
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