Quote from: suchmoon on Today at 03:31:23 AM

Quote from: squatz1 on February 25, 2021, 10:50:08 PM

Yup, exactly. I think you may agree with parts of Hawleys plan for minimum wage increases.

Aside from being tied to the CPI, sounds unnecessarily complicated. And I don't know if it's shoddy reporting or Hawley being incompetent, but SSN doesn't imply citizenship. A person legally working in the US gets an SSN so this just sounds like red meat for the base and is either a possibly unconstitutional requirement or a lie.

The article does correctly note that this would basically shovel federal tax money into states that didn't raise the minimum wage.

Might be shoddy reporting, as I highly doubt there would be an issue with giving people this tax credit if they have a work visa to be here.

I like the plan in broad strokes. - Like forcing big businesses to pay $15 an hour and allowing more leeway for small businesses who may not survive paying that wage all across America.

Makes more sense to tie it to cost of living in the locality, but that makes too much sense so Congress wont do that.

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on Today at 02:41:25 AM

The free market is already effectively making the minimum wage at something around $15/hour. Many major companies that require little/no experience have starting wages at or about $15/hour. If you are an employer and try to pay your employees something less than $15/hour, you will have difficulty finding and retaining employees.

Raising the statutory minimum wage is not possible via budget reconciliation. Senate rules are clear on this. If Democrats want to raise the minimum wage, they will need to negotiate with Republicans. With that being said, Republicans agreeing to raise the minimum wage after receiving some concessions is not entirely unrealistic due to my statement above.

Yup, the parliamentary has decided that budget reconciliation can not be used to do this which means that this bill will not include any sort of minimum wage increase. Saves moderate dems and dem leadership from a tough vote as well as moderate Republicans who may have a tough reelection.