The Minimum Wage Law, by definition, forbids hiring low wage workers.
I applaud those Senators who are against it.
They should at least rename it to the Forbidden Hiring Rate law.
Posted on 08/04/2006 11:17:36 AM PDT by TChris
Despite the fact that the minimum wage bill that didn't pass the cloture vote was due to the fact that it was tied directly to a massive rollback of the estate tax and $38 billion in other tax breaks, we are going to get a barrage of the "democrats are filibustering the minimum wage hike" nonsense.
With all of that, it is painfully obvious that any increase in the minimum wage should be a stand alone bill as opposed to part of something that would be as Senator Durbin said "the worst special-interest bill I have seen in my time in Congress." Which also gives the opportunity to make the Republican Senators eat their words and look the damn fools that they are.
Especially these seven millionaire Republican Senators who are against a straightforward increase in the minimum wage.
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The minimum wage turns the working poor into the unworking poor.
They should COLA the minimum wage - as they have done to their own incomes.
Well, the moonbat liberals demonize everyone else, including God, so why not a wealthy Repub??? They cannot produce anything of substance so they must demonize others to provide a faux purpose for their miserable, useless existence.
Let me look up 'Hypocrite' in the dictionary real quick and see if there is a picture of the author.
Amen! Couldn't have said it any plainer than you did.
Projection.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Yeah. As if all the liberal millionaire Congresscritters have a great love for the rank and file. (Cynthia McKinney comes to mind...slapping up the 'underlings'.)
The Minimum Wage Law, by definition, forbids hiring low wage workers.
I applaud those Senators who are against it.
They should at least rename it to the Forbidden Hiring Rate law.
Eight of the top 10 millionaires in the Senate are Democrats.
John Kerry, D-Massachusetts: $163,626,399
Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin: $111,015,016
John Rockefeller, D -West Virginia: $81,648,018
Jon Corzine, D-New Jersey: $71,035,025
Dianne Feinstein, D-California: $26,377,109
Peter Fitzgerald, R-Illinois: $26,132,013
Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey $17,789,018
Bill Frist, R-Tennessee: $15,108,042
John Edwards, D-North Carolina: $12,844,029
Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts: $9,905,009
Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico: $7,981,015
Bob Graham, D-Florida: $7,691,052
Richard Shelby, R-Alabama: $7,085,012
Gordon Smith, R-Oregon: $6,429,011
Lincoln Chafee, R-Rhode Island: $6,296,010
Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska: $6,267,028
Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee: $4,823,018
Mike DeWine, R-Ohio: $4,308,093
Mark Dayton, D-Minnesota: $3,974,037
Ben Campbell, R-Colorado: $3,165,007
Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska: $2,963,013
Olympia Snowe, R-Maine: $2,955,037
James Talent, R-Missouri: $2,843,031
Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania: $2,045,016
Judd Gregg, R-New Hampshire: $1,916,026
John McCain, R-Arizona: $1,838,010
James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma: $1,570,043
John Warner, R-Virginia: $1,545,039
Kay Bailey Hutchison, R - Texas: $1,513,046
Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky: $1,511,017
Harry Reid, D-Nevada: $1,500,040
Sam Brownback, R-Kansas: $1,491,018
Thomas Carper, D-Delaware: $1,482,017
Ted Stevens, R-Alaska: $1,417,013
Maria Cantwell, D-Washington: $1,264,999
Barbara Boxer, D-California: $1,172,003
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah: $1,086,023
Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana: $1,080,014
Bill Nelson, D-Florida: $1,073,014
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa: $1,016,024
Gosh darn those filthy rich Republican senators, like Kerry, Kohl, Rockefeller, Feinstein, Kennedy, Corzine, Lautenberg . . . . never mind.
I wish the GOP worked this hard for the grassroots!!
Some of them, certainly. Especially if it's increased by $2/hour. A lot of people who are making minimum wage—arguably, most or even close to all of them—simply aren't doing work worth $2/hour more. If they were, chances are they'd already be making that kind of money, either where they are or somewhere else.
If I'm an employer with 10 people making minimum wage and I'm told I'll eventually have to pay them all $2/hour more, I'm going to let go at least one or two of them and expect those remaining will do more work to earn that higher wage. If they can't do it, I'll have to find people who can. It's either that, or raise my prices and lose business (and layoff more workers). Anyone ought to be able to understand that.
But, none of that matters to the well-paid union thugs whose contracts include an automatic wage increase whenever the minimum wage goes up. I'm sure it doesn't matter to their Senators, either.
If I'm not mistaken, the required disclosures allow gross understatement of wealth. Case in point, the senior working stiff from MA, who couldn’t keep himself boozed on the interest and dividends from (sniff!) $9.9 million.
And that doesn't take into consideration the many millions of $ the family has stashed away in ofshore accounts that can't be taxed.
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