Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate

BrickEater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Write the bills ahead of time, so that when a favourable Congress is formed you don’t have to spend more time putting it together from scratch.

  Min wage should also be attached to inflation. Also, “bills going nowhere” didn’t stop Project 2025, Heritage Foundation fascists and Republican abortion ban projects from persistently marching forward.

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  • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Minimum wage means nothing without a Maximum wage. Business owners will never give themselves a pay cut to give you a pay raise. They’ll pass it on to the consumer and then we’ll be right back to the beginning again. You also need to put an end to Capital Gains tax dodging through loans and stock buybacks. The Wealthy are using it as “free money” glitch and that’s what’s driving up inflation more than anything.

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We should go through the effort of writing bills to do all of those things too. Pieces of it could get picked up in other bills as amendments. The point is not to just give up because you think putting any one improvement together is useless until everything is already put together nicely.

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      • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        oh, I’m not suggesting that we stop trying, but if we solve the underlying issues that cause the need for Minimum wage increases, they will be necessary less often, or, even be able to be reduced with no ill effects to overall cost of living. It’s not a zero sum game, and there are many factors at play. Focussing only on one aspect will never SOLVE the problem, merely kick the can down the road.

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Because Democrats are on the same team as Republicans, and it's not ours. And we're just as ineffective, consumed by inertia.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So we should be sad and do nothing and shame anyone who tries something doomed to fail anyway.

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      • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No we should be organizing on a much grander scale.

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    • OS2Warp@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Image

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    • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Goddamn lemmy eats up that both sides bullshit so hard.

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      • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The purpose of a system is what it does.

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      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes, people are generally in touch with reality on this topic.

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  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Less minimum wage should be tied to inflation, more minimum wage should be tied to congressional salary. (Some multiplier, because they do need to live in two places)

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    • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’d prefer tying the salary (including bonuses, assets, and everything) to the lowest paid wages in the nation.

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      • frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Or ditch the minimum wage and implement a Universal Basic Income (UBI) at the Federal level (or State level!!). If there’s UBI, the minimum wage doesn’t have to be there which technically could make labor more competitive in general, plus you don’t have to rely on your job to get your basic needs met.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Less minimum wage should be tied to inflation, more minimum wage should be tied to congressional salary.

      These two wages should be the same.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Who is “you”? I don’t think the democrats are here. They don’t give a shit.

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Congress, campaigns, non-profits and advocacy organizations.

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  War is peace.

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well, I’d prefer they do something just to say they’re trying than the usual tactic of not even trying because they’ve already decided they don’t have enough votes.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  PR to get votes.

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• Bristlecone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Exactly the reason that this is the perfect time to introduce this bill! Let’s go Democrats! /s

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