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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:10 PM
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Poll question: **If Dems increase the minimum wage, it MUST be indexed to inflation!**
IIRC, wages haven't kept up with inflation since somewhere around 1968 (seven years before I was born). Prices go up every year, but cost-of-living raises are a thing of the past, and keeping up with inflation just isn't happening.

The Democratic party has promised to use its majority status to get a minimum wage increase passed. It is my firm belief that such an increase, if not indexed to inflation, would be yet another band-aid solution - needed, but woefully inadequate.

Do you agree that we should push our representatives to draft legislation that raises the minimum wage while also indexing such an increase (and all further increases) to inflation?
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:14 PM
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1. I say index it to congressional pay
Make them give us all a raise before they give themselves one.
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Counciltucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:16 PM
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3. Agreed.
Honestly, I think it should be a Constitutional amendment that if Congress gives itself a pay raise that it must also raise the minimum wage in the same piece of legislation.

That said, it absolutely should correlate with inflation.
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:18 PM
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4. How about we raise it 10 cents every time Bush tells a lie?
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:22 PM
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5. We'll soon all be rich!
:)
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bluerum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:54 PM
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11. Equitable proposition. Wonder what their argument against would be?
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 10:13 PM
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14. We should propose it and see!
NT!
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LiberalArkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:25 PM
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6. I agree, it should be a certain percentage of our congress's payroll.
That way every time they vote themselves a pay raise they will feel guilty about the minimum pay.
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:15 PM
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2. Even Ted Kennedy's site doesn't mention indexing to inflation.
Does he not support this idea, or am I just not finding his support for it?

(For reference: http://www.tedkennedy.com/page/content/mw_learnmore/)
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:36 PM
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7. For those who voted no - what is your reasoning?
NT!
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sutz12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:38 PM
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8. Voted "other".....I'd index it to the poverty level for family of 3...nt
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wundermaus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:45 PM
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9. how about congress giving it self a raise...
but that it only effects future members of congress - that is - no member of congress can give him or her self a raise. The raise only applies to their future replacements. That should take care of them.
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sutz12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 09:48 PM
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10. The recent raises we are aguing about were COLASs
They were voted in years ago, and just came up automatically. They had a chance to vote them down, but never did.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 10:31 PM
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16. That's already taken care of, the 27th amendment
Of course it's not very effective because 3/4ths of the congress knows they will be re-elected no matter what.
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 10:02 PM
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12. We should, but the Dems need it as a political football, so they won't index it to inflation.
Otherwise, they will have one less political football with which to beat Repubs on. Politics is a nasty business, and if you want your way, you're going to have to force the Dem leadership to peg it to inflation.
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 10:08 PM
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13. Doesn't that equate to them playing with people's economic well-being to score political points?
Edited on Fri Dec-22-06 10:09 PM by Zhade
That's a pretty shitty thing to do to consituents.
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 10:26 PM
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15. I can't think of any other reason why they haven't pegged it to inflation.
Edited on Fri Dec-22-06 10:27 PM by Selatius
They pegged Social Security to cost of living a hell of a long time ago. Thousands of union contracts determine pay using cost of living adjustments. Business contracts all over the business world often include clauses adjusting figures for the latest cost of living adjustment, and somebody is going to stand there and tell me with a straight face that the thought of pegging the minimum wage to inflation hadn't crossed the leadership's mind?
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 10:43 PM
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17. Maybe they...don't care as much about the poor and working class as they say they do?
Call me cynical.
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