Democrats Introduce Bill To More Than Triple The Minimum Wage

its performative for election, almost everywhere even in red states has raised the minimum wage since. remember one of the dem senators was introducing a bill about our flag, that amounts to nothing.

gerrymandering likely will hurt GOP more than it helps them since they already area at the limit of doing it, and starts affect thier districts.

most of them are gop-lite dinos, like schumer, hakeem, slotkin, and a dozen others

Pin it to cost-of-living.

You seem surprised that this is how losing trust works. If people don't trust you will keep your promises, then it doesn't matter what you promise them.

That being said, there are thing they can do that are not just virtue signalling.

We need a revolution to undo the damage of this administration. Democrats aren’t going to do shit and they’re all owned by the AIPAC Uniparty. This administration has been devastating to our future. Heads need to roll and I haven’t heard any democrats running on real accountability and a hard line against Israel

Moving the goal posts for someone else doesn't negate the original comment's thesis. Raising minimum wage doesn't increase inflation, because as we've seen inflation has already gone up.

Raising minimum wage (especially when tied to inflation and regional cost of living) often provides people with more spending power and work life balance. More money flows thru the economy while also allowing savings to increase. It can also cause other skilled labor jobs to see an increase in wages, and higher union attendance.

Pay people better. Don't simp for the oligarchs.

Trump white house just posted " 2 kings" and these people still trying to pass fake bills?

The people of the US need to woke up before it is too late if they want their democracy back, otherwise they can accept the new kingdom.

I am not sure what he will call it, maybe just Trump

A livable wage increasing 3x is going to raise eyebrows...

I'm not in US, but 3x people's salary isn't something feasible, you don't just increase the lowest, as they now leaped past everyone else. EVERYONE will need increases.

So now everything goes up in cost, you just killed the export economy and those who are out of a job? Get turbo fucked because benefits lag behind at best of times, but now they got higher prices to deal with with the money they already don't have.

Oh and people go and buy out the housing market before it rockets to the moon.

This is a lemmy comment, figures are vague by design. It is a centrist (read left if you're American) safe space, hence I'm here, but we don't live in lala land...

I mean, why not introduce this bill during any of the 4 years Biden was in office?

bCoS wE dOn'T hAvE tHe mAjOrItY!!

It's the usual and convenient excuse that Dems and their neoliberal fans love to use. As if not having a majority in either houses ever stopped Republicans! If the Dems are really serious as an opposition, which they aren't, then they have to make popular choices-- the kitchen table issues. And not only that, actually impeach and imprison Trump. I think America has to go under a fully fledged dictatorship for Americans to actually know when they see one; kinda like Brazil imprisoning Bolsonaro for trying to overthrow the election, and they are not letting up at all. Because Brazil suffered from decades of dictatorship. Americans did not indict and arrest Trump because they are still arguing whether or not he's a fascist.

Democrats cry minimum wage increase if they win.

Democrats cry legalized weed if they win.

Democrats cry codified Roe v Wade if they win.

Democrats cry ending the border wall if they win.

And then don't do it when they win. And then get mad that people notice they got swindled.

Republicans sell lies and promise torture, and they deliver that. Lies and torture.

any other bill then to solve the current crises, they are banking on the problems snowballing so they get elected over the gop. it was the same thing senator warren/kloubacher did a useless "flag lesgislation"

the current DNC schumer and his cohorts are there to prevent any leftward shift in voting patterns, the gop are design to ratchet everything to the right.

Now watch as they win midterms and this gets forgotten completely.

"We can't pass it. We don't have supermajority."

They get supermajority.

"We can't pass it. We don't have the presidency"

They win presidential elections.

"We can't just pass it. It has to be bipartisan or it's bad for democracy"

They lose midterms.

Thanks I guess? Maybe try stopping the fascist movement first... we can talk about empty promises later, but I ain't seen y'all push back worth a fuck. Sure as shit, I don't believe that weak sentiment if ya can't even oust a certified pedo

Both parties are in on the whole thing, the system being rigged from the very beginning. I don't buy any of it; it's all theater.

You guys have law protected minimum wage?

Cries in Finland

This is specifically an optics move because they can’t pass it. Make headlines about this and a few other progressive moves in the run up to November and gain votes from the “fell for it again” neolib crowd. Then “whoops, 1-3 democrat senators are just real sticks in the mud and won’t go for it so I guess we give up”. Then frustration from the base and they eventually kill whatever momentum because they prove that when it comes to action they almost always cave. Then the gop sweeps up and regresses as much as possible.

Lieberman, sinema, manchin, now its fetterman. who will be the next “this 1-3 person group personally stops any and all progress in America for like a decade”. The ones that give those dumb neolibs ammo, because of course the party would do so much if it wasn’t for them and you just have to vote more so that the 1-3 person group can become a 3-5 person group

Technically yes, but the federal minimum wage right now is $7.25/hr (with a few exceptions). Even full-time at this amount is poverty level in most of the country, and many places now pay more than this anyway, so it doesn't actually do much. In fact, now it seems like companies can use it as a way to suppress wages by saying look, we're offering you $12/hr, which is almost double the minimum wage! In reality, that's still insufficient to live anywhere by yourself in basically the entire country

I feel like many "cost of living" type laws need to be pinned together. For example the 401k yearly contribution limit and tax brackets should be defined as a multiple of minimum wage and not raised automatically each year without it.