The Progressive bid to push the Federal Minimum Wage to fifteen dollars per hour hit a wall in the US Senate. The measure died 58-42 with the help of a handful of Democrats, including New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan.
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Democrat’s Arbitrary Minimum Wage Laws Are Killing Jobs in a Booming Economy
The economy under Donald Trump is setting records. Record low unemployment for minorities, and (well) just about everyone. Wages up, take-home pay up, disposable income up. State’s like NH have more jobs than people to fill them. And it is a climate where Democrat policies can still kill jobs.
Target Employees Discover Woke Arbitrary Wage Hikes Mean Less Take Home Pay
You can sample our mountain of commentary on minimum wages or the fight for fifteen here. As with all left-wing policy, their wage-hike rhetoric, when practiced, hurts the people they claim to be helping. Just ask these Target Employees.
Bernie Sanders Field Staff Want 15.00/Hour – He Cuts their Hours.
Bernie is telling America we need a $15.00 per hour minimum wage. But when his unionized salaried field staff said they want to make that too, Bernie did what we’ve been saying would happen all along to everyone else. He cut their hours.
Arbitrary Wage Meddling Claims More Victims – Democrats Can’t Wait to Do that Here!
A few years ago, the unions told the Democrats they needed to push for an arbitrary $15.00 per hour minimum wage. We’ll take in more dues and give you more money. They all clicked their heels together and went to work. The fallout from this socialist experiment continues.
McDonald’s Drops the Hammer – Ordering Kiosks in Every Store by 2020
Spurned by meddling Democrats crying for government intervention in the value of an hour of labor McDonald’s began testing Kiosks in Europe. That expanded to here and there and over there.
But the time has come. No more fiddling around the edges. The trial period has ended. McD’s is putting self-serv kiosks in every restaurant on the planet within two years so kiss all those entry-level jobs goodbye.
While NH Democrats Fight for 15 D.C. Dems Vote To Dump It for Tipped Workers
New Hampshire Gubernatorial candidates Steve Marchand and Molly Kelly are both dedicated Democrats with designs on using government to limit your potential for prosperity. They both support a New Hampshire minimum wage of $15.00/hour; which we know will result in job losses and less monthly income for the very people they claim to want to help.
Nothing new about that. But this is new.
Thanks for sending more businesses to NH, Charlie!
by Skip
And yet another Republican delivering a win for the Democrat / Socialist agenda. Steve had the goods (paid family leave) in expanding the Welfare State in MA and pushing the Socialist agenda of “Don’t worry – you don’t have to provide for yourself as everyone else will be coerced to take take of you.”. Ayup, furthering the Progressive mantra that you don’t have to be self-responsible and plan ahead for you and your family. And they wonder why we constantly beat on the GOP?
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker Signs Bill to Raise Minimum Wage to $15
Gov. Charlie Baker (R) of Massachusetts signed a bill Thursday to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023.
The new law will set the wage to $11 per hour and then raise the pay rate in steps until it hits $15 in five years. The wage for tipped workers will also increase but at a lower rate, going from $3.75 to $6.75 by 2023, according to Mass Live.The $15 wage will match California for the highest minimum wage in the nation by 2023.
Why Not Raise the Minimum Wage to $100/Hour?
If employers had to pay even the least competent of their weak links a Benjamin an hour we could make everyone rich almost overnight.