Posted on 07/27/2016 11:29:41 AM PDT by Kevin C
Donald Trump said Tuesday he would support raising the federal minimum wage to $10 an hour, a departure from his previous assertion that wages are "too high."
The Republican presidential nominee was pressed to provide a specific number by Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, who said, "there has to be a federal minimum wage."
Trump initially dismissed that suggestion.
"There doesn't have to be," Trump said. "I would leave it and raise it somewhat. You need to help people. I know it's not very Republican to say."
"Ten bucks?" O'Reilly asked.
"I would say 10. I would say 10," Trump agreed. "But with the understanding that somebody like me is going to bring back jobs. I don't want people to be in that $10 category for very long. But the thing is, Bill, let the states make the deal."
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But most illegals are in construction and make more than $15 per hour right now. RESEARCH!
Yeah, and they don’t pay taxes because it’s under the table.
ROFL!!!!
You really DO believe that ... and you're utterly oblivious to the unintended consequences.
The founders knew what they were doing.
Yes, they did. And they didn't authorize Social Security, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or 0bamacare, or SNAP, TANF, SSDI, WIC, agricultural subsidies, EPA, OSHA, BLM, foreign aid, ...
You keep missing the point. We're in debt because "WE" SPEND TOO MUCH!
In other words, djt says the Constitutional thing.
This assumes illegals would still be viable in a future Trump Presidency.
Am I telling you something that you didn’t already know?
We will be much less screwed than if Hillary wins this.
If that happens it won’t be “screwed”, it will be rape.
Talk to the American People who let this happen for decades.
Don’t blame Trump for having to deal with it as best he can.
I think he handled it very well. He called out both Bernie and Biden for being LIARS. That is epic in today’s Politics.
I’m off to work. I’ll check back tonight to see how this Thread progresses.
That’s the way to do it. Leave it to the states.
The income tax is evil. Yet I see "conservatives" defend it over tariffs all the time. Much brainwashing going on.
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If FR had a like button.
Keep preaching it you’re spot on
Half of the jobs I worked in construction in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s were under the table too.
You do know what "to remind" means. Right?
Democratic operative (my opinion) Bull oReily wrongly ignores that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to establish a national minimum wage. This is evidenced by the following.
Regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”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.
So the feds don’t have the constitutional authority to regulate vote-winning minimum wage imo.
Note that while I will gladly vote for Trump for president, Constitution-savvy patriots will need to get constitutionally low-information Trump up to speed on the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
a very important fact often over looked is the prevailing actual minimum wage.
I would not be surprised if it wasn’t actually near $10 in many many places
In past raises, the rise was actually catching up with reality and no economic harm was done
The minimum wage is always $0.
We don’t need a min wage. Let the businesses decide the rate they are willing to pay.
The founders knew what they were doing.
Yes, they did. And they didn't authorize Social Security, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or 0bamacare, or SNAP, TANF, SSDI, WIC, agricultural subsidies, EPA, OSHA, BLM, foreign aid, ...
You keep missing the point. We're in debt because "WE" SPEND TOO MUCH!
You think that's scoffing at THE FOUNDERS??? Are you nuts? I'm scoffing (if that's the right word) at Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Barack 0bama (in particular) and at every politician or voter of any party that ever supported their bloated, expensive, failed, socialist big government policies.
Now it has come to a head.
If Hildebeeste is elected, the whole thing comes crashing down around our ears.
If Trump is elected, he bloody well better start pounding on Congress to roll back the unconstitutional socialist bloat ... sooner rather than later, faster rather than slower ... or it comes crashing down around our ears anyway. Your 20% tariff doesn't solve any problems at all. It's a Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound or a shattered skull.
I’m sure Tom Hoefling is a wonderful man, but he’s not going to be elected President in 2016.
The minimum wage is a political issue and not an economic issue.
Easy for landscaping, construction, mom and pop restaurants and other similiar businesses to hire illegal labor. But corporations similiar to McDonald's will automate their restaurants by installing kiosks in all of them.
“This assumes illegals would still be viable in a future Trump Presidency.”
By the same token, this $10 minimum wage assumes that no illegals exist to do it for cheap(er). In 2 years, it will be $15, because “we gotta feed our family”. And then $20, because things are “more expensive now”. And then $30, because that is what we expect “in this economy”. Then a “living wage”, because we “cannot make ends meet”. Then a basic income. Then a guaranteed wage. Then an egalitarian economy, comrades.
-—The minimum wage is always $0-—
yes of course, in theory. The condition is called bondage or slavery.
My post was discussing the prevailing minium wage
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