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State Minimum Wage Bill
Posted on 2/25/14 at 7:20 am
Posted on 2/25/14 at 7:20 am
LA State Sen. Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb has prefiled a bill for the coming Legislative Session to increase the State minimum wage to $10/hr. I'll leave it up to your imagination which party she belongs to.
LA Dems are now starting to push the issue pretty hard and putting stuff out that made me curious to look up the roll call vote for the National minimum wage increase from 2007.
Members of our Congressional Delegation who voted YES to increase the National Minimum Wage to over $7/hr.: Rodney Alexander, Charlie Melancon, Bobby Jindal, Dollar Bill Jefferson, Vitter and Landrieu.
There's two names up there on the Yes list I did not expect to see.
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LA Dems are now starting to push the issue pretty hard and putting stuff out that made me curious to look up the roll call vote for the National minimum wage increase from 2007.
Members of our Congressional Delegation who voted YES to increase the National Minimum Wage to over $7/hr.: Rodney Alexander, Charlie Melancon, Bobby Jindal, Dollar Bill Jefferson, Vitter and Landrieu.
There's two names up there on the Yes list I did not expect to see.
LINK
This post was edited on 2/25/14 at 7:22 am
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Posted on 2/25/14 at 8:27 am to ragincajun03
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Rodney Alexander, Charlie Melancon, Bobby Jindal, Dollar Bill Jefferson, Vitter and Landrieu.
LOL good find!
That said, I don't find supporting an increase in the minimum wage to be scarlet letter to forever someone unclean.
I am OK with supporting an increase in the min wage when the economy is doing well, and wage inflation has increased sufficiently. That way you mitigate the downside by essentially ratifying a wage increase that the free market has already determined.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 8:33 am to BigJim
The vote in the House was something like 330-100 while Senate was 94-3. Not much dissenting.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 8:37 am to ragincajun03
In absolute terms, wages have stagnated. The free market isn't compensating. Raising the minimum wage is an issue of critical importance and should be done, but it doesn't address the fundamental issues afflicting our consumer economy...i.e. the growing chasm between the middle class and the wealthiest Americans.
A lot of people here criticize raising the minimum wage, as if liberals or progressives think it's a panacea. It isn't, and it isn't supposed to be. But it's still an important piece of social policy that we should be able to agree on.
A lot of people here criticize raising the minimum wage, as if liberals or progressives think it's a panacea. It isn't, and it isn't supposed to be. But it's still an important piece of social policy that we should be able to agree on.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 8:49 am to Monsieur Le Prince
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A lot of people here criticize raising the minimum wage, as if liberals or progressives think it's a panacea. It isn't, and it isn't supposed to be. But it's still an important piece of social policy that we should be able to agree on.
Setting the price of labor is certainly "social" in one sense of the word.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 9:19 am to Monsieur Le Prince
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A lot of people here criticize raising the minimum wage, as if liberals or progressives think it's a panacea. It isn't, and it isn't supposed to be. But it's still an important piece of social policy that we should be able to agree on.
Raise the costs of doing business means raising the costs of things people buy. It will zero out any impact. When they go to buy something and it costs more their extra money is meaningless. It is also meaningless if they get replaced by an iPad or some other technology because they have become too expensive.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 12:17 pm to lsu13lsu
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aise the costs of doing business means raising the costs of things people buy. It will zero out any impact.
Macro-economics isn't that simple.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 12:20 pm to Monsieur Le Prince
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The free market isn't compensating. Raising the minimum wage is an issue of critical importance and should be done
Ive got 22 part timers that work for me.. raise minimum wage by 40% and 6-8 college aged adults lose their job.. Thats the reality
Posted on 2/25/14 at 12:25 pm to TROLA
But that's the genius of it. Those that lose such "menial jobs" are the "lucky ones." The Dems can then herd many of the newly unemployed into support programs. Once they are dependent on the system and stagnate, voila! Votes for life.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 12:30 pm to Monsieur Le Prince
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In absolute terms, wages have stagnated
Really? Starting when?
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the growing chasm between the middle class and the wealthiest Americans
If everyone is living better....why is this a problem?
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But it's still an important piece of social policy that we should be able to agree on
Why? You think it should outpace inflation?
Posted on 2/25/14 at 2:02 pm to BBONDS25
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Really? Starting when?
I mean, when you factor in increased fuel costs, healthcare costs, cost of buying stuff, my taxes have increased, I'm not really making all that much more money than I was 5 years ago.
I mean, even if you're making 30%+ more than you were 5 years ago, fuel has increased 100%, my weekly healthcare deduction has increased 60%, deductible is 100% more, etc...
Raising min wage isn't really going to help this problem. If anything, its going to make it worse. Bad economy + plethora of available workers + baby boomers that wont retire = stagnant wages.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 2:03 pm to ragincajun03
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Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Certifiable idiot
Posted on 2/25/14 at 2:05 pm to Monsieur Le Prince
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social policy that we should be able to agree on
Wrong.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 2:10 pm to Monsieur Le Prince
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In absolute terms, wages have stagnated. The free market isn't compensating. Raising the minimum wage is an issue of critical importance and should be done, but it doesn't address the fundamental issues afflicting our consumer economy...i.e. the growing chasm between the middle class and the wealthiest Americans.
A lot of people here criticize raising the minimum wage, as if liberals or progressives think it's a panacea. It isn't, and it isn't supposed to be. But it's still an important piece of social policy that we should be able to agree on.
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Monsieur Le Prince
quote:And already have an avi?
Member since Feb 2014
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Obvious troll alter is obvious.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 3:18 pm to Monsieur Le Prince
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Macro-economics isn't that simple.
Yet, you and the left seem to understand it so well?
Posted on 2/25/14 at 3:20 pm to BBONDS25
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If everyone is living better....why is this a problem?
This is what bothers me the most. Sure there is a gap between the haves and the have nots. But, take the haves out of the equation. How much better has the lives of the have nots improved over time in this country? It is unbelievable what the have nots actually HAVE.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 3:29 pm to Monsieur Le Prince
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Raising the minimum wage is an issue of critical importance and should be done
so what about the ones making more that minimum but less than 10, should they get a corresponding jump too?
Posted on 2/25/14 at 3:33 pm to ragincajun03
Anybody that seriously advocates the minimum wage, I automatically know they're economically illiterate.
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