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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 11:47 AM Feb 2021

Hawley backs Sanders-style Plan B on $15 minimum wage

Source: The Hill


BY NIV ELIS - 02/26/21 10:34 AM EST

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Friday announced a plan to tax big companies that don't pay their workers at least $15 per hour, an alternative minimum wage approach also put forth by by Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

"For decades, the wages of everyday, working Americans have remained stagnate [sic] while monopoly corporations have consolidated industry after industry, securing record profits for CEOs and investment bankers," Hawley said.

"Mega-corporations can afford to pay their workers $15 an hour, and it’s long past time they do so, but this should not come at the expense of small businesses already struggling to make it."

Progressive Democrats pushing for a $15 minimum wage suffered a blow Thursday night when Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that the policy could not be included in the budget reconciliation process.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/540673-hawley-backs-sanders-style-plan-b-on-15-minimum-wage





Is Hawley desperately trying to save himself?
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Hawley backs Sanders-style Plan B on $15 minimum wage (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2021 OP
Nah, he's playing to the significant portion of his white supremacist KPN Feb 2021 #1
Populism... it has a lot of aspects to it. zaj Feb 2021 #2
Not really. Sanders plan is substantive, Hawley's is much ado about still_one Feb 2021 #3
He's an Rebl2 Feb 2021 #4
chameleons are reptiles too. Apology to chameleons mahina Feb 2021 #5
Hehe onetexan Feb 2021 #7
He's a populist. He backs whats popular. LiberalLovinLug Feb 2021 #6

KPN

(15,587 posts)
1. Nah, he's playing to the significant portion of his white supremacist
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 11:52 AM
Feb 2021

base who are near or below the federal poverty level.

 

zaj

(3,433 posts)
2. Populism... it has a lot of aspects to it.
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 11:54 AM
Feb 2021

Many are good, many are toxic. Hawley embraces all of them, it seems.

mahina

(17,506 posts)
5. chameleons are reptiles too. Apology to chameleons
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 02:42 PM
Feb 2021

and non-hominid reptiles.

HA! Evidently there really are lizard people

LiberalLovinLug

(14,154 posts)
6. He's a populist. He backs whats popular.
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 03:16 PM
Feb 2021

That is what makes him more dangerous. He's not as stupid as other Republicans like Cruz, and most all the rest. Who have been conditioned, or allowed themselves to be conditioned, that if Democrats want A, no matter how much Americans in general support A, we must vigorously oppose A, even if we don't have a B or C plan to replaces it.

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