TomatoPie wrote:What would President TP favor?

While my gut tells me that we should eliminate the minimum wage, it is plenty low right now, and removing it would indeed open the door for some employers to exploit some labor markets.

I'd keep it where it is, but I'd do something at the federal government level that mirrors the EIC. For all persons over age 21, federal tax dollars will be used to get you to a net (indexed for inflation) wage of $15/hr.

This is in keeping with programs that, while far from perfect, are effective in helping needy Americans - public housing, Medicaid, food stamps. Help for those who need it, not a blanket program that brings in everybody.

I'd much rather target subsidies to those that truly need it rather than paying suburban teens an above-market rate for summer jobs, or, even worse, paying everybody including Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg $1000 a month.

Perko, the steelworkers union president, sympathizes with people working low-wage service jobs.

"When I hear someone say, that job at McDonalds, they don't deserve to make even $12 an hour because they should pick themselves up by their bootstraps and go do something else — those people work harder than I do," Perko said. "I'll be the first to admit it. They deserve to be paid for their labor."

That sounds like something a Bernie Sanders supporter would say. That's because he is.

Perko used to like Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, and Elizabeth Warren.

"They're all people that either have a blue-collar background or have at least a plan for the working class," he said. "I cannot get behind the parts of the Democratic party that feel like corporate America."

Stripes wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:What would President TP favor?

While my gut tells me that we should eliminate the minimum wage, it is plenty low right now, and removing it would indeed open the door for some employers to exploit some labor markets.

I'd keep it where it is, but I'd do something at the federal government level that mirrors the EIC. For all persons over age 21, federal tax dollars will be used to get you to a net (indexed for inflation) wage of $15/hr.

This is in keeping with programs that, while far from perfect, are effective in helping needy Americans - public housing, Medicaid, food stamps. Help for those who need it, not a blanket program that brings in everybody.

I'd much rather target subsidies to those that truly need it rather than paying suburban teens an above-market rate for summer jobs, or, even worse, paying everybody including Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg $1000 a month.

Why would any business pay anybody over $7.25 then, if the government is just gonna make up the rest anyway?

traderdave wrote:From CNN:

Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is weighing whether to endorse Joe Biden after exiting the Democratic presidential race late Sunday night and later speaking on the phone with the former vice president and former President Barack Obama. An endorsement for Biden is likely, two people close to Buttigieg say, but whether he makes the decision before Super Tuesday is unclear.

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traderdave wrote:From CNN:

Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is weighing whether to endorse Joe Biden after exiting the Democratic presidential race late Sunday night and later speaking on the phone with the former vice president and former President Barack Obama. An endorsement for Biden is likely, two people close to Buttigieg say, but whether he makes the decision before Super Tuesday is unclear.

Do we believe he dislikes Klobuchar as much as it appears? She's the only other one that might get his endorsement. Has to be Biden, and you'd think Biden would be motivated to get it by Tuesday. I wonder if he's trying to get a VP commitment from Biden.

jamiethekiller wrote:i don't know how he was even able to raise money to stay in the race in the first place

Trent Steele wrote:Klobuchar dropping out and endorsing Biden.

Trent Steele wrote:Klobuchar dropping out and endorsing Biden.

CalvinBall wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:Klobuchar dropping out and endorsing Biden.

leaves minnesota all to sanders