Pelosi released a bizarre video today, spouting off about raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour while wildly waving her hands and arms like Crazy Eddie and at one point digging her fingers under the neck of her turtleneck top to scratch an itch.

Is this how the average Roman felt when their empire was on the decline

Did she mention anything about the $2000 checks they promised on day 1?

Has anyone seen estimates of the impact a $15 min wage will have on income and payroll tax collections?

(02-21-2021 05:12 PM)pkptigers07 Wrote:  Has anyone seen estimates of the impact a $15 min wage will have on income and payroll tax collections?

Anytime you force an artificial wage increase, it historically lowers tax collection as people end up losing jobs instead of getting that fake raise.

If you want $15 per hour, all you have to do is to work an $8-$10 per hour job and prove you can show up to work 10 days in a row without being late, calling in sick, and arent on your damned phone for half of the working day.

Beta Oroarke taught her how to orate.

They will get right on it as soon as they impeach Trump again....

Listening to her try and explain anything is pure torture. I like how she tried to schit on the idea of indexing the minimum wage according to cost of living. That made completely no sense and made her look like and idiot. BTW...$15 is not going to happen any time soon...Mark it down.

(02-21-2021 05:21 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(02-21-2021 05:12 PM)pkptigers07 Wrote:  Has anyone seen estimates of the impact a $15 min wage will have on income and payroll tax collections?

Anytime you force an artificial wage increase, it historically lowers tax collection as people end up losing jobs instead of getting that fake raise.

If you want $15 per hour, all you have to do is to work an $8-$10 per hour job and prove you can show up to work 10 days in a row without being late, calling in sick, and arent on your damned phone for half of the working day.

As someone who works in HR, this is spot on. I had this conversation with my son today. What we considered doing the basics 30 years ago would lead someone to stand out in their job today.

Quote:Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) declared Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that we should not want “low-wage businesses” when pressed on small businesses who would struggle under a federal mandate to pay employees $15 an hour.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would cost 1.4 million Americans their jobs over the next four years.

Anchor Abby Phillip said, “I know that you feel very strongly like many progressives about the minimum wage issue. Right now, at the same time, businesses, both large and small, are struggling in this pandemic economy, more than 9 million jobs have been lost in the last year, and they still aren’t back, and the problem is particularly acute in industries like retail and foodservice, which are more likely to pay minimum wage. I think the question that a lot of Republicans are posing and perhaps some moderate Democrats is timing. Is now the right time to increase it to $15? I should say the bill has stages, of course, but immediately it would go up about 30% right now. Is now the right time to do that?”

Khanna said, “Abby, it’s absolutely the right time to give working Americans a raise. Let’s look at the facts. Amazon raised their wage to $15 nationally, not regionally. They have more jobs today. It didn’t hurt job creation or business. Target followed. They also did it nationally, more jobs.”

Phillip said, “Large businesses like Amazon and McDonald’s, for example, can and perhaps should pay more, but I’m wondering what is your plan for smaller businesses? How does this, in your view, affect mom and pop businesses who are just struggling to keep their doors open, keep workers on pate roll right now?”

Khanna said, “Well, they should be doing it by paying people low wages. We don’t want low-wage businesses. Most successful small businesses can pay a fair wage. If you look at the minimum wage, it increased with worker productivity until 1968, and that relationship was severed. If workers were actually getting paid for the value they were creating, it would be up to $23. I love small businesses, I’m all for it, but I don’t want small businesses that are underpaying employees. It’s fair for people to be making what they’re producing. I think $15 is very reasonable in this country.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/02/...imum-wage/

Everything with these people is about color. Everything. All the time. 24/7

They don't realize they're dividing the country. To arrogant to realize it.

(02-21-2021 04:27 PM)solohawks Wrote:  Is this how the average Roman felt when their empire was on the decline

Frog in a pot

Odoacer is knocking on the door though.

(02-21-2021 05:12 PM)pkptigers07 Wrote:  Has anyone seen estimates of the impact a $15 min wage will have on income and payroll tax collections?

Burn. It. Down.

Suffer prog filth.

Zero sympathy

Doesn't seem any more bizarre than her normal rambling. Like much of Congress she's uh.. lost a step.

Anyway Dem leadership is just saving face at this point talking about $15/hr. Biden already called around telling everyone it's not gonna happen.

Are there any Liberals here that honestly believe this is good idea?

Depsite promises, No student loan forgiveness, no $15/hour, and no $2000 stimulus?

The good ole days og politicians not keeping their word are truly back