The Biden Presidency 2021
January 24th, 2021 at 6:18:18 AM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12538 |
https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2021-01/topline-abc-news-biden-unity-012421.pdf Thoughts and prayers to anyone silly enough to be basing his popularity off of YouTube comments. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
January 24th, 2021 at 7:56:02 AM permalink | |
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4178 | Rand Paul states Biden must hate Black teenagers! He says 4 million jobs to be lost at low end of pay scale if minimum wage raised to $15. And that will disproportionally hurt Black youth. Biden's motives are of course not that, but like so many other Democrat policies, the results tend not to be what they want. So maybe the 4 million number is off, but can anyone actually disagree with the concept? Plus this will start an inflationary cycle. It's all bad.... |
January 24th, 2021 at 10:30:08 AM permalink | |
Altstates93 Member since: Jan 5, 2021 Threads: 0 Posts: 29 |
Maybe data exists that proves otherwise, but raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour would seem like too much of a shock to the system. A $15 minimum wage could create oddball situations: a part-time cashier in a grocery store would suddenly earn nearly as much as his/her full-time supervisor. Raising it to $9-$10 seems more reasonable, and I think would encounter less resistance from the other side. |
January 24th, 2021 at 10:40:13 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18764 | While the Democrats are in power I’d rather see a push to get minimum wage indexed to inflation. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
January 24th, 2021 at 11:13:10 AM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4524 |
Of course you would since it would create a never ending inflation spiral. Minimum wage up, inflation up, minimum wage indexed up, inflation up ..... "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
January 24th, 2021 at 11:17:20 AM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12538 |
I’d rather see the Dems do whatever pisses off the righties most. The $15 minimum wage is very popular. Red state Florida just passed it with a huge majority. So whenever I see someone whine about that it looks like they are just desperate for something to bitch about. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
January 24th, 2021 at 11:23:46 AM permalink | |
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4178 |
But that would cause AOC to have a conniption! You partially miss the point though.... The $15 an hour supervisor will now command $20 an hour. The $30 an hour computer programmer will now want $40. A whopper will now be $5 instead of $4. Your babysitter will be $50 a night instead of $40. It does not just affect the bottom, it affects the middle as well. And will contribute to inflation of course. I do agree that if Biden just said something like immediately $10 an hour, then Every Jan 1 it goes up $0.50 an hour until it hits $15, he would likely get enough bipartisan support to squash those like me who feel the market should decide what the minimum wage is, not the government. |
January 24th, 2021 at 11:23:58 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11806 |
I agree I lean left but never supported 15 9 to 10 is reasonable but not perfect Maybe an adjusted min wage according to area of the country. I worked for American Express and a lot of positions had a pay scale depending on where you lived. Companies have to do that. It's about acquiring talent and keeping it in say NYC where the cost of living is high and top talent is expensive as opposed to down south where the cost of living is cheaper and you can pay less but have that employees living at the same standard of living as the NYC employees Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
January 24th, 2021 at 11:31:49 AM permalink | |
Gandler Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 27 Posts: 4256 |
I mean there already is, that is what State and local (city and county) minimum wages do. The Federal minimum wage is just supposed to be the baseline (though some states do have minimum wages lower than federal in which case the federal takes effect, and some states have none at all...) |
January 24th, 2021 at 4:48:13 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12538 |
It feels so nice to have the good guys running things again! MAGA! “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |