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The Magistrate

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11. An Excellent Idea, And A Sound Policy, Sir

Reply to Tom Rinaldo (Original post)

Sat Mar 6, 2021, 03:44 PM

Mar 2021

For full agitprop benefits, I might suggest making each six-month increment a separate vote. 'X voted three times against raising your pay' makes a better attack line 'Y likes raising wages so much he voted for doing that three times'....

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A modest proposal regarding raising the minimum wage. [View all] Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 OP

Just make it equal to the buying power of the original minimum wage: about $15.00/hr. marble falls Mar 2021 #1

Sure, great idea. Can you, as Captain Picard would say, "make it so"? Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 #2

That's exactly how it's going to happen in the end. Just like Medicare happened, like SSI happened . marble falls Mar 2021 #5

Agreed. Meanwhile I was envisioning how millions of workers could get their first raise NOW Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 #8

The buying power of the original minimum wage is about $4.64 GregariousGroundhog Mar 2021 #17

Of course in 1968 "they" said the minimum wage was to help teenagers get trained on their 1st job Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 #24

Typo. The min wage would have reached $15 in 2022/23 IIRC...nt Wounded Bear Mar 2021 #3

Where do you get that. I keep seeing 2025 Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 #6

You may be right, but your post reads 2015... Wounded Bear Mar 2021 #7

Aha! So it did, in one place yes... Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 #9

The prior House bill isn't really relevant. TwilightZone Mar 2021 #4

AMERICAN CongressPersons and Senators should be mandated N E 1 Mar 2021 #10

I understand what you're saying DesertRat Mar 2021 #15

An Excellent Idea, And A Sound Policy, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2021 #11

Raise the Wage Act 2021 Schedule: Donkees Mar 2021 #12

Thanks for that info. I didn't know where to look for it... Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 #13

Bernie introduced this same bill in the last Congress, but McConnell just stalled it ... Donkees Mar 2021 #14

Modest proposal: Stop listening to Sanders saying what is possible. Hortensis Mar 2021 #16

Yes, slipping a minimum wage increase into a defense spending bill is probably the easiest route GregariousGroundhog Mar 2021 #18

:) Ah, 1968 (actually 69). I was paid $0.13/hour as a 17-year-old waitress Hortensis Mar 2021 #19

Who knows what he might have accepted IF the Senate parliamentarian gave a green light to inclusion Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 #20

If we'd disregarded the parliamentarian, it would have gone to a vote Hortensis Mar 2021 #23

Self Delete. Mistakenly posted n/t Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 #21

Self Delete. Mistakenly posted n/t Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 #22