Dems Big Push for 2014: Minimum Wage

[Stephanie]

With polls showing widespread support for an increase in the $7.25-per-hour federal minimum wage among both Republican and Democratic voters, top Democrats see not only a wedge issue that they hope will place Republican candidates in a difficult position, but also a tool with which to enlarge the electorate in a nonpresidential election, when turnout among minorities and youths typically drops off.


Very interesting wording. but it really identifies where democrats heads are at. wake up people, this isn't about you. they could give a rats ass about the people. its nothing more than a last ditch effort to try to win an election they know they are going to lose.

Yep...and don't look for this the last in their bag of dirty tricks geared for the weak-minded they don't want to lose control over...and that includes far too many on these boards.

Now we see why the Unions with backing from the Democrat party staged all those strikes against fast food

they play and use the people as pawns for their political agenda and the people eat it up and cheer

this country is hopeless with the people today, I swear

 

[The Rabbi]

This is one thing the democrats are doing I support. If taxpayers can afford bailing out big corporations or subsidizing them, companies can afford paying a extra dollar or two an hour to working people in a don economy with a rising cost of living. Also maybe these corporations will think twice about supporting flooding this country with low skilled immigrants if they have the pay them a higher wage.

OK, guy. Next time you go out to eat start tipping 30% of the tab instead of 20%. If you're eating out you can afford to support the poor server with an extra dollar or two. Yeah, and the next time you go shopping for a new car--tag price. No haggling. Surely you can afford a few hundred bucks more for the car salesmen and manufacturers.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Well, actually instituting business-friendly policies that encourage hiring, expansion, investment and new business formation would take care of that. And wouldn't cost nearly as much as UE benefits or food stamps.
But the Left wont hear of it.

Such as?

Let's see:
-Cut unemployment insurance to 3 weeks
-Repeal Obamacare
-Cut corporate tax rates to zero
-Institute flat tax
-Cut corporate welfare
-Cut mandates like ethanol
-Cut about 2/3 of OSHA regs--in fact cut anything that has not demonstrated effectiveness in 5 years
-Repeal the minimum wage
-Sign free trade agreements with as many countries as possible
-Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley
-Repeal Dodd-Frank

There's a good start right there.

Great list. You are wonderful.

 

[The Rabbi]

Such as?

Let's see:
-Cut unemployment insurance to 3 weeks
-Repeal Obamacare
-Cut corporate tax rates to zero
-Institute flat tax
-Cut corporate welfare
-Cut mandates like ethanol
-Cut about 2/3 of OSHA regs--in fact cut anything that has not demonstrated effectiveness in 5 years
-Repeal the minimum wage
-Sign free trade agreements with as many countries as possible
-Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley
-Repeal Dodd-Frank

There's a good start right there.

Great list. You are wonderful.

Thanks. Vote Ted Cruz in 2016.

 

[LoneLaugher]

This is one thing the democrats are doing I support. If taxpayers can afford bailing out big corporations or subsidizing them, companies can afford paying a extra dollar or two an hour to working people in a don economy with a rising cost of living. Also maybe these corporations will think twice about supporting flooding this country with low skilled immigrants if they have the pay them a higher wage.

OK, guy. Next time you go out to eat start tipping 30% of the tab instead of 20%. If you're eating out you can afford to support the poor server with an extra dollar or two. Yeah, and the next time you go shopping for a new car--tag price. No haggling. Surely you can afford a few hundred bucks more for the car salesmen and manufacturers.

Ruh-Roh! A nutter battle is a brewin'.

Who will win? The open racist or the closet one?

Can't wait!

 

[LoneLaugher]

Let's see:
-Cut unemployment insurance to 3 weeks
-Repeal Obamacare
-Cut corporate tax rates to zero
-Institute flat tax
-Cut corporate welfare
-Cut mandates like ethanol
-Cut about 2/3 of OSHA regs--in fact cut anything that has not demonstrated effectiveness in 5 years
-Repeal the minimum wage
-Sign free trade agreements with as many countries as possible
-Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley
-Repeal Dodd-Frank

There's a good start right there.

Great list. You are wonderful.

Thanks. Vote Ted Cruz in 2016.

Dude looks like he has a clear plastic mask on 24/7.

 

[Spoonman]

This is one thing the democrats are doing I support. If taxpayers can afford bailing out big corporations or subsidizing them, companies can afford paying a extra dollar or two an hour to working people in a don economy with a rising cost of living. Also maybe these corporations will think twice about supporting flooding this country with low skilled immigrants if they have the pay them a higher wage.

OK, guy. Next time you go out to eat start tipping 30% of the tab instead of 20%. If you're eating out you can afford to support the poor server with an extra dollar or two. Yeah, and the next time you go shopping for a new car--tag price. No haggling. Surely you can afford a few hundred bucks more for the car salesmen and manufacturers.

Great Point. And start tipping you Burger King order takers too.

 

[Spoonman]

With polls showing widespread support for an increase in the $7.25-per-hour federal minimum wage among both Republican and Democratic voters, top Democrats see not only a wedge issue that they hope will place Republican candidates in a difficult position, but also a tool with which to enlarge the electorate in a nonpresidential election, when turnout among minorities and youths typically drops off.


Very interesting wording. but it really identifies where democrats heads are at. wake up people, this isn't about you. they could give a rats ass about the people. its nothing more than a last ditch effort to try to win an election they know they are going to lose.

Yep...and don't look for this the last in their bag of dirty tricks geared for the weak-minded they don't want to lose control over...and that includes far too many on these boards.

Now we see why the Unions with backing from the Democrat party staged all those strikes against fast food

they play and use the people as pawns for their political agenda and the people eat it up and cheer

this country is hopeless with the people today, I swear

watch how fast automated order takers show up in fast food places. jobs will start to disappear. who will suffer are the individual franchise owners. not the corporations

 

[Iceman]

This is one thing the democrats are doing I support. If taxpayers can afford bailing out big corporations or subsidizing them, companies can afford paying a extra dollar or two an hour to working people in a don economy with a rising cost of living. Also maybe these corporations will think twice about supporting flooding this country with low skilled immigrants if they have the pay them a higher wage.

OK, guy. Next time you go out to eat start tipping 30% of the tab instead of 20%. If you're eating out you can afford to support the poor server with an extra dollar or two. Yeah, and the next time you go shopping for a new car--tag price. No haggling. Surely you can afford a few hundred bucks more for the car salesmen and manufacturers.

What a hack cop out. Your cop out on leaving a higher tip doesn't pan out because waiters have to pay a tip tax or people who leave low tips. Many waiters see little of that tip money due to taxes on tips. Also, waiters aren't the only ones getting paid minimum wage. We are becoming a low wage service sector economy with few available jobs and a cost of living rising due to free trade, low interests rate from the fed( free money for parasite banksters), high income taxes and mass immigration among other things. The average American should get a little sliver of a pie since the .0001% are taking it all.

 

[WelfareQueen]

I don't have a problem with the minimum wage rising a buck or two. What's the big deal?

 

[The Rabbi]

This is one thing the democrats are doing I support. If taxpayers can afford bailing out big corporations or subsidizing them, companies can afford paying a extra dollar or two an hour to working people in a don economy with a rising cost of living. Also maybe these corporations will think twice about supporting flooding this country with low skilled immigrants if they have the pay them a higher wage.

OK, guy. Next time you go out to eat start tipping 30% of the tab instead of 20%. If you're eating out you can afford to support the poor server with an extra dollar or two. Yeah, and the next time you go shopping for a new car--tag price. No haggling. Surely you can afford a few hundred bucks more for the car salesmen and manufacturers.

What a hack cop out. Your cop out on leaving a higher tip doesn't pan out because waiters have to pay a tip tax or people who leave low tips. Many waiters see little of that tip money due to taxes on tips. Also, waiters aren't the only ones getting paid minimum wage. We are becoming a low wage service sector economy with few available jobs and a cost of living rising due to free trade, low interests rate from the fed( free money for parasite banksters), high income taxes and mass immigration among other things. The average American should get a little sliver of a pie since the .0001% are taking it all.

Yeah just as I thought. You're quick to spend other people's money, yourself, not so much.
You're a fucking hypocrite ignoramus.

 

[The Rabbi]

Great list. You are wonderful.

Thanks. Vote Ted Cruz in 2016.

Dude looks like he has a clear plastic mask on 24/7.

Yeah that's a real good reason to vote for someone or not vote for him.
No wonder you voted for Obama in the last election. Not the first one because you were too young.

 

[Iceman]

OK, guy. Next time you go out to eat start tipping 30% of the tab instead of 20%. If you're eating out you can afford to support the poor server with an extra dollar or two. Yeah, and the next time you go shopping for a new car--tag price. No haggling. Surely you can afford a few hundred bucks more for the car salesmen and manufacturers.

What a hack cop out. Your cop out on leaving a higher tip doesn't pan out because waiters have to pay a tip tax or people who leave low tips. Many waiters see little of that tip money due to taxes on tips. Also, waiters aren't the only ones getting paid minimum wage. We are becoming a low wage service sector economy with few available jobs and a cost of living rising due to free trade, low interests rate from the fed( free money for parasite banksters), high income taxes and mass immigration among other things. The average American should get a little sliver of a pie since the .0001% are taking it all.

Yeah just as I thought. You're quick to spend other people's money, yourself, not so much.
You're a fucking hypocrite ignoramus.

So it should be my responsibility to pay the wage of the worker as well? Typical corporate hackery you are spewing, always passing the buck to the taxpayer. Companies should have to guarantee a certain standard of living to workers in a first world country to guarantee a standard of living, especially as our economy declines and becomes more polarized with fewer jobs less growth and more wealth going to fewer and fewer. Especially in our corporatist system where government and corporate interests overlap through subsidies, tax breaks, regulations, free trade, mass immigration etc, corporations need to be held to account

 

[Iceman]

The GOP solution to a rising cost of living, pay a higher tip. Lol

 

[LoneLaugher]

Thanks. Vote Ted Cruz in 2016.

Dude looks like he has a clear plastic mask on 24/7.

Yeah that's a real good reason to vote for someone or not vote for him.
No wonder you voted for Obama in the last election. Not the first one because you were too young.

I was?

You are a fucking genius.

 

[The Rabbi]

What a hack cop out. Your cop out on leaving a higher tip doesn't pan out because waiters have to pay a tip tax or people who leave low tips. Many waiters see little of that tip money due to taxes on tips. Also, waiters aren't the only ones getting paid minimum wage. We are becoming a low wage service sector economy with few available jobs and a cost of living rising due to free trade, low interests rate from the fed( free money for parasite banksters), high income taxes and mass immigration among other things. The average American should get a little sliver of a pie since the .0001% are taking it all.

Yeah just as I thought. You're quick to spend other people's money, yourself, not so much.
You're a fucking hypocrite ignoramus.

So it should be my responsibility to pay the wage of the worker as well? Typical corporate hackery you are spewing, always passing the buck to the taxpayer. Companies should have to guarantee a certain standard of living to workers in a first world country to guarantee a standard of living, especially as our economy declines and becomes more polarized with fewer jobs less growth and more wealth going to fewer and fewer. Especially in our corporatist system where government and corporate interests overlap through subsidies, tax breaks, regulations, free trade, mass immigration etc, corporations need to be held to account

Hey, you want to advocate higher wages? Make an example. Bump your tips to 30%. You can afford it, right?
Quit spending other people's money, you fucking socialist.

 

[The Rabbi]

The GOP solution to a rising cost of living, pay a higher tip. Lol

You can start somewhere. Think globally, act locally.

 

[Spoonman]

What a hack cop out. Your cop out on leaving a higher tip doesn't pan out because waiters have to pay a tip tax or people who leave low tips. Many waiters see little of that tip money due to taxes on tips. Also, waiters aren't the only ones getting paid minimum wage. We are becoming a low wage service sector economy with few available jobs and a cost of living rising due to free trade, low interests rate from the fed( free money for parasite banksters), high income taxes and mass immigration among other things. The average American should get a little sliver of a pie since the .0001% are taking it all.

Yeah just as I thought. You're quick to spend other people's money, yourself, not so much.
You're a fucking hypocrite ignoramus.

So it should be my responsibility to pay the wage of the worker as well? Typical corporate hackery you are spewing, always passing the buck to the taxpayer. Companies should have to guarantee a certain standard of living to workers in a first world country to guarantee a standard of living, especially as our economy declines and becomes more polarized with fewer jobs less growth and more wealth going to fewer and fewer. Especially in our corporatist system where government and corporate interests overlap through subsidies, tax breaks, regulations, free trade, mass immigration etc, corporations need to be held to account

but corporations have no control over the factors that determine costs for a certain standard of living. Say you work for Disney. you have no influence over the cost of gasoline, or housing or automobiles. or over the cost of food which is mostly regulated by the government to actually keep prices high. and the myth tat all corporations are receiving these massive tax breaks from government is a myth. Sure some do. but most of them really don't.

 

[WelfareQueen]

I'll say it again. What is the big deal about raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour. To me it is a no-brainer.

 

[JimH52]

The GOP is ready to puts limits on what the poor make, but fall short of putting limits on what the 1% make...why is that?

The GOP puts no limits on what anyone makes. That's the point, dumbshit.
The Democrats put limits on what everyone makes, or even if they can make anything at all.

Oh, then the GOP should have no trouble increasing the MINIMUM WAGE? No, they don't really care about those low income people...