Bernie Sanders Demands a $17 Minimum Wage as Trump’s Tariffs Embarrass GOP

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Bernie Sanders Demands a $17 Minimum Wage as Trump’s Tariffs Embarrass GOP | Truthout

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In 2021, the House passed legislation to raise the minimum from $7.25 to $15 an hour, but it failed in the Senate despite a slim Democratic majority after eight centrist Democrats voted against the measure.
And would happen again because the party is addicted to losing.
- Just to be clear, this means that enough House Republicans defected to pass the bill but Senate Democrats killed it. These guys are literally worse than Republicans.
  
  Everytime I say this shit I get wrecked but it's true. Dems ALSO do not care about us at all.
  
  In 2021 the Democrats had a majority in the House.
- You're still thinking Bernie expects this to pass, and he isn't going to use it against them once they block it.
  This is ammo for the 2026 and 2028 pocket.
  "Hey remember when Republicans shot down my notion of raising minimum wage to $17/h?!"
  "They what!?"
  "Those fuckers!"
  
  If that strategy ever worked Bernie would've been president in 2016. Hell I just pointed out he tried it in 2021 and it hasn't yielded shit.
  
  Republicans don't care about voting history, they care about the R next to a candidate on the ballot. You could tell them that their Rep voted aginast securing them a better life, and they'd tell you "Sounds like commie talk, MAGA!!" And if you show a canidate who would give them a better life, they'd just say something about wokeism or whatever, and then claim they know what's best for America.
  Democrats won't care about a Republican's voting history, because they're not going to vote for a Republican.
  Voting records don't really do anything for Republican dipshits.
That's still a sad minimum wage. MIT clearly calculates a more realistic minimum wage for each state and county nationwide. Any place I've looked at in the past 5 years has been 20+ usually 20-26 but even saying that doesn't matter. And lasted I looked into the calculations they were based on a no-life lifestyle, and no processed food.
Minimum wage is something no one should budge on. If inflation happens minimum wage adjusts.
- Yeah, I don’t understand why it’s a fixed number and not a formula…
- Link for the lazy https://livingwage.mit.edu/
- Increasing min wage is great and all, but doesnt really solve the real problemn like landlord greed and corpations buying up real estate driving of living costs.
- If inflation happens minimum wage adjusts.
  this is the way it works in australia and it works great! based on cpi though, so a more reliable “cost of living” metric
crazy we're still in 2009's minimum wage, that should be updated every year
- That is why it is so important that of/when a minimum wage hike happens that tied with it is an periodic inflationary based raise is attached to the bill.
- My state rejected to adjust minimum wage to the cost of living index. It would have yearly adjusted the wage with the cost of rent, food, healthcare, etc. and then still allow it to be increased by other means.
  I still am blundered by this, but I know corporate and republican propaganda got to them.
Still too low. $17/hour let's you apply for an apt with a monthly rent of $906 or less. Most require 3x rent in order to apply.
17x40x4=$2,720 monthly income 2,720÷3=$906.67 max monthly rent
$17 was needed before everything doubled in price.
Cue Trump abolishing minimum wage altogether.
- Maximum wage! If you make $20/h or less, that’s your new maximum.
The GOP embarrass themselves with or without Trump.
We should double what we ask for minimum wage every time we get told no.
UBI supporters: what happened to the minimum wage is the future of any UBI.

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