Should the Democrats have gone for the $11 minimum wage option?

[dansolo]

While I'm not sure they would have been able to include it into the covid relief bill, I think the Democrats should have called Manchin and Sinema's bluff and included raising the minimum wage to $11. I believe that the minimum wage should be raised to $15. Raising it partially wouldn't prevent it from being raised more later, especially if we can get 2 more Senators elected in 2022. I think that this is just another case where instead of giving some help that would immediately help millions of people, we hold out for more, which helped no one.

[aocommunalpunch]

1. You can't call someone's bluff

if moving goalposts is always a fallback. I do believe that's a conservative's mating call. There will always be an out as to why stuff that helps people has to be watered down. It's all bullshit.

[Walleye]

2. The Republicans were not going to vote for any of our bills. The dollar amount doesn't matter

[marble falls]

3. NO! The GOP uses compromise to set new goal posts not to resolve impasse.