The GOP is the party that baits their line and broadcasts their chum with the unacknowledged fears, assumptions, hatreds, and beliefs of the working class. Once hooked, they are oblivious to the real goals of the oligarchs that use them.
BTW for the dummies, it’s $7.25 in all of them because that’s the federal limit. They can’t pay you less but if they could, they would. Took the Ds 20 years to raise the Fed rate over gop fighting it.
Rachel, how do we get Democrats to get off their asses and start messaging now to flip the “elite“ branding of us to branding Trump’s administration as the billionaires deciding what crumbs the little people can have while they take everything? It’s crazy WC voters think Republicans care about them
they do pay less. if your in the service industry your lucky to make $2.25 an hour. Using tips to justify a lower wage while your employer pockets your income.
For the same reason that they are introducing "sweeping spending cuts". They all know that working class people would benefit from a little deprivation, along with a lecture on hard work and faith.
Governors of red states reply: "If we raised the minimum wage nationally, then we wouldn't able to create generations of impoverished and intellectually stunted voters to exploit. Btw, have we told you how great our school voucher scams are?"
And that's democrats fault for not being marketing all the time or for being republican lite my entire fucking lifetime or both? I think it's the racism. It was the racism in 1980 and it's been the racism my entire life. I hope it all burns to the ground. It's what it will take.
The disparities are about to become much more apparent. The dem brand can be rebuilt, but only if they take up the mantle of a real opposition party and find their voice.
It's going to take decades of work to dig out of this pit.
Owning the libs on cultural issues is more important than their own standard of living. It's their own choice. Fortunately, the the lib states value the concept of a living wage for workers & have increased their own standards considerably. It's a "lose-lose" for the red states & justly deserved.
How fucking insane is it that in Texas, where it ain't cheap to live, they've managed to convince enough people that liberals are bad that they can keep the states minimum wage at 7.25.
Texans just love getting pissed on by their oligarchic overlords. But damn, fuck them libs right?
I recall 15 yrs ago, I had a teen come do some clean up work for me. I had no idea of the current minimum wage (it was $7.50/hr I learned a few days later)
Anyway, I paid him $10/hr because that seemed fair.
Incredible that it has no increased.
Should be $20 if it kept up with
Worker productivity. Do the math. At $7.25, your pocket is picked every hour by $12.75. Income inequality cheats you out of $12.75 each hour you work. Each hour you work, $12.75. Your pocket picked by billionaires.
$7.25 doesn’t even get you a Starbucks latte. Nobody should have a wage that low.
But I guess “bringing God back” into the White House/America is more important.
It's only $7.25 because the federal minimum wage applies. Some of those deep south states have no minimum wage, or have a substantially lower rate, and the federal rate pushes it up to $7.25.
TX and TN tie directly to the federal minimum wage. LA has no state minimum wage, while a few others have lower minimum wages on the books, so the federal minimum wage applies.
The same states that don’t take federal funds to support Medicaid. One might think that they still support slave labor and want them to either leave or be sick.
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Remember when raises would substantiate increases? Good times
My ass.
It's going to take decades of work to dig out of this pit.
#History
Now you are just being super contrarian!
Texans just love getting pissed on by their oligarchic overlords. But damn, fuck them libs right?
Anyway, I paid him $10/hr because that seemed fair.
Incredible that it has no increased.
Worker productivity. Do the math. At $7.25, your pocket is picked every hour by $12.75. Income inequality cheats you out of $12.75 each hour you work. Each hour you work, $12.75. Your pocket picked by billionaires.
But I guess “bringing God back” into the White House/America is more important.
The fed rate hasn't changed in 20 years.
The GOP is no friend to workers.
https://www.epi.org/minimum-wage-tracker/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAnKi8BhB0EiwA58DA4casGr_ZUuXKPE6_pqCV_8PeTCCkPPSRM2LNjJHHPtPm9ou8rZN93hoCQBMQAvD_BwE#/min_wage/Wyoming
that would explain one of the major reasons why maga exists
Too many scapegoats to hate to obfuscate corruption at the top.
(not that dems always tell the truth, mind you, it's just something that popped to mind.)