"Bernie Sanders Gets Republican Leader To Admit He Wants To Abolish The Minimum Wage"

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Bernie Sanders Gets Republican Leader To Admit He Wants To Abolish The Minimum Wage

By: Jason Easley at Politicus USA

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/06/27/bernie-sanders-republican-leader-admit-abolish-minimum-wage.html

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Sanders: If someone had to work for two bucks an hour, they would work for two bucks an hour?

Sen. Alexander compared the minimum wage to welfare, and said that he would use a “targeted” approach through increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit. Raising the EITC won’t do anything for people who are living week to week and paycheck to paycheck working minimum wage jobs, so in reality, Alexander would do nothing.

Alexander’s objections were not based on economic reasons. They were based on myth an ideology. Sen. Sanders argued with data that raising the minimum wage does not hurt the economy. Sen. Alexander argument against the existence of a minimum wage was based on the idea that it is like welfare, and welfare is bad.

The minimum wage issue is toxic poison to Republicans, but they keep thumping their chests with an air of superiority and telling people how their hard work doesn’t deserve to be paid a living wage.


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1. If deflation happens, and the GOP want it to on wages, the rich will be relatively much richer.

Just another transfer of wealth to the rich. They will stop at nothing to get more for them and theirs'.

[NYC_SKP]

2. K/R. (nt)

[cali]

3. what the hell? Comparing the minimum wage to welfare? Are there no depths the repukes

won't plumb? And yeah, that was definitely rhetorical.

[arcane1]

4. No kidding, whatever happened to "the Dignity of Work" that they ran on in 2012?

It says a lot about a political party when they openly admit they want their constituents to be desperate.

[MrScorpio]

5. How do you hire Republican to work for slave wages in the first place?

Can you incentivize these Republucans to work harder through incremental pay raises, up to the point when they're eventually earning a living wage?

Isn't paying a Republcan more than a living wage from the start just another way to encourage their bad behavior?

[DBoon]

6. How do you hire Republican to work for slave wages in the first place?

1. Convince them it is God's will and they will burn in hell forever unless they do
2. Tell them it is the fault of all those dark-skinned people on welfare
3. Tell them it is the fault of all those volvo-driving latte-sipping elite liberals