Dems Hope To End Bleeding By Proposing Higher Minimum-Wage

[mudwhistle]

Democrats Set to Rock Republicans By Pushing to Raise the Minimum Wage to $10.10

Senate Democrats are meeting today and are preparing to drop a bomb on Republicans. They are going to push for raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour by 2015.

According to The Hill:

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is spearheading the push to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour but not all Democrats are yet on board.

The Harkin proposal would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour through 3 annual ninety five cent an hour increases. This isn’t about passing a bill though the Senate. What Democrats are doing is laying the groundwork for a potent campaign issue in 2014 and 2016. Chris Christie marched to a big reelection, but he saw his opposition to increasing the minimum wage steamrolled by New Jersey voters who overwhelmingly voted to increase the minimum wage to $8.25 an hour.

The minimum wage issue also gives Democrats a path towards addressing income inequality. In March the sponsor of the House version of The Minimum Wage Act of 2013, Rep. George Miller (D-CA) said, “Income inequality is one of the greatest threats to America’s long-term economic vitality, yet we are widening that inequality with wages that subject people to live in poverty. Even during a so-called ‘golden age of corporate profits,’ millions of working families are falling behind because their paychecks aren’t keeping up. That’s immoral and that’s undermining our economy.”​

Democrats Set to Rock Republicans By Pushing to Raise the Minimum Wage to $10.10

 

[ScienceRocks]

Places like Walmart, McDonalds and other fast food places are throwing people on food stamps. Why not get them to pay 10.10/hour = less welfare?

 

[mudwhistle]

Alot of the unemployment we had after the Dems took over Congress was caused by raising the MW. All it does is make fast food restaurants cut workers or put people on part time instead of full time.

This is what Democrats do when they screw up. They Double-Down. The purpose of this proposal is to bring low-information voters back in the fold.

I figure a Big Mack is going to cost $10 before Obama gets done. When he took office is was roughly $3.65. Some people won't even be able to afford going to what used to be the most convenient and cheapest place to eat. Guess they're going to have to settle for beans and rice.