Republicans Reeling as Support For Raising The Minimum Wage Surges to 76%

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/11/11/republicans-reeling-support-raising-minimum-wage-surges-76.html

Republicans Reeling as Support For Raising The Minimum Wage Surges to 76%
By: Jason Easley
Monday, November, 11th, 2013, 5:55 pm


Congressional Republicans have vowed to block any bill raising the minimum wage, but a new Gallup poll shows that 76% of Americans and 58% of Republicans supporting increasing the minimum wage.

The Gallup poll found that support for raising the minimum wage to $9.00 an hour has jumped from 71% in March to 76% today. Sixty nine percent of those polled support a minimum wage that increases as inflation goes up. 91% of Democrats, 76% of Independents, and 58% of Republicans support increasing the minimum wage. Democrats (92%) and Independents (71%) strongly support linking the minimum wage to inflation. Fifty six percent of Republicans oppose making the minimum wage inflation proof.

While the American people want a higher minimum wage, Republicans in Congress support getting rid of all minimum wage laws. In an interview with CBS, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said, “I support people making more than $9. I want people to make as much as they can. I don’t think a minimum wage law works. We all support — I certainly do — having more taxpayers, meaning more people who are employed. And I want people to make a lot more than $9 — $9 is not enough. The problem is you can’t do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.”

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Republicans are in big trouble on the minimum wage. The elected radical Republicans want to abolish it, while the rest of the country is trying to raise it. This is one of those issues where a pragmatic political party would support a minimum wage increase because opposing it could do serious damage to them in the next election. However, this Republican Party is ideological. They will never support a minimum wage increase, and voters will make them pay dearly at the polls.

Democrats need to pound and press, because raising the minimum wage isn’t just a political issue. It’s the right thing to do for millions of hard working Americans.

[Blue Owl]

1. Take it to the polls, America

Keep purging the rotten apples out of the basket until they're all gone.

[B Calm]

2. Republicans hate WORKING people!

[Stuart G]

20. That is who they are, then, now, always...nt

[EC]

47. No...

they love people who work for free or cheaply

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Would this have to be done, state by state? Or could we have a national referendum?

[frazzled]

4. No, there's a federal minimum wage provision in the FLSA

that is, in the Fair Labor Standards Act. Right now it's $7.25. It really should go up above $10. But hey, anything's an improvement.

Individual states can (and do) have their own laws that raise the minimum wage in that state above the federal standard.

[Volaris]

23. if Congressional Dems want it set to nine, WE should demand 10, and then neg. should start at 11.

ON EDIT: When did Marco Rubio decide to trade smart for stoopid, because MANDATING that people not be paid less than 9$/HR means exactly the opposite of what he says it means.
Just saying, Marco...

[meow2u3]

34. I'm for DOUBLING the current minimum wage

$14.50 an hour and automatic raises indexed to inflation is my idea of a fair minimum wage.

[pangaia]

27. It should be $16 ! But forget that.

[Heather MC]

6. Some stated take the lead on raising MW, when the FedGov

drag their feet
it has been 5 years since the last raise. The feds need to get with it.

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. Thanks to both of you. If 2/3 of the American people want it, then Dems should beat this....

drum relentlessly.

[dionysus]

11. why you talking about beating people? them's.. fightin woids! that's it..

PUT UP YER DUKES!!1!!!!!111

[Tarheel_Dem]

28. Hey dion! I've missed you. Nobody's threatened me in awhile now.

[dionysus]

29. you keep karate choppin at me.. IT'S ON!

time for some kickboxin!
<- kickboxin

[malaise]

5. ReTHUGs are sick

Vote them out in 2014

[ProSense]

7. $10 Minimum Wage Proposal Has Growing Support From White House

$10 Minimum Wage Proposal Has Growing Support From White House

By CATHERINE RAMPELL and STEVEN GREENHOUSE

The White House has thrown its weight behind a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to at least $10 an hour.

“The president has long supported raising the minimum wage so hard-working Americans can have a decent wage for a day’s work to support their families and make ends meet,” a White House official said.

President Obama, the official continued, supports the Harkin-Miller bill, also known as the Fair Minimum Wage Act, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, from its current $7.25.

The legislation is sponsored in the Senate by Tom Harkin of Iowa and in the House by George Miller of California, both Democrats. It would raise the minimum wage — in three steps of 95 cents each, taking place over two years — to $10.10, and then index it to inflation. The legislation will probably be coupled with some tax sweeteners for small businesses, traditionally the loudest opponents of increases to the minimum wage.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/business/10-minimum-wage-proposal-has-obamas-backing.html

[Bob Jones]

10. Anything less than $25 an hour is slavery.

[ProSense]

12. That means 70 percent of Americans are in slavery.

Push for it.

[sheshe2]

13. Kick and Hell Yes, let's push for it!

[Bob Jones]

15. Slaves to our corporate masters. But one day soon there WILL be a rebellion!

[ProSense]

16. Welcome to DU. When are you kicking off the "rebellion"? n/t

[Bob Jones]

18. I don't know how to start a rebellion.

But I'm pretty sure I know how to participate in one!

[blue14u]

55. Welcome to DU Bob Jones!!!

[spanone]

9. they are on the wrong side of every issue. it makes me think only the media believes in them.

[Beartracks]

48. The MSM has to believe...

...that there is a conflict between two equally valid points of view, because conflict=ratings. That's what the whole false equivalency thing is about -- well, that and corporate influence turning much of the media "news" establishment into shills rather than journalists.

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[noiretextatique]

50. "The problem is you can’t do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws"

a real journalist wouldn't allow this bullshit statement from Rubio to stand unchallenged.

[Beartracks]

57. Hard to find a real journalist among all the MSM "referees." Sad. n/t

[noiretextatique]

60. yep...a BIG reason why we are in such a mess now eom

[Snake Plissken]

14. Anything that prevents Billionaires from fucking working class people out of their money

is considered evil by the GOP, and if any GOPers dare to speak out, the Tea Party will be sure to fund their demise in a primary.

[Kingofalldems]

17. Yeah, but everyone will be laid off if they get a raise!!

They've been saying that for about 75 yrs.

[Stuart G]

19. Ted Kennedy and Republicans and the Minimum Wage...a true classic for all times.

I put this up in latest news, but this belongs anywhere this issue is discussed.
Ted defines what they are all about, clear and simple. (even though this was long ago Uploaded on You Tube.. Jan 25, 2007 )

[cynatnite]

21. If 80% of America wanting universal background checks won't budge them...

this most definitely won't.

The repukes won't do it.

However, I do think if the Dems campaign on it for 2014, it might help flip the house.

[Volaris]

58. pfffft...ya THINK?

It'll flip the House and pick up 10 seats in the Senate.

[PeteSelman]

22. Bah! Republicans don't "reel". They don't give a fuck and double down.

And then they win enough seats either block things they don't like or pass the draconian things they do. They don't give fuck one about what The People want.

[leanforward]

24. Raise the minimum

If the GOP is against raising taxes, why not raise the minimum wage. They're "not raising taxes". A lot of business models will have to be reviewed with regards to profitability. Raising the minimum would seem to be payback for corporate interests wrecking any group espousing the idea of employee welfare or benefit. I'd like to read or hear Krugman's or a few other economists' take on raising the minimum. John Maynard Keynes seemed to stress free markets worked best in a homogeneous society.

[Doctor_J]

25. support for uhc is 65%. support for background checks is 80%how in hell does this

translate into "republicans reeling"?

[gopiscrap]

26. yes!

[JEFF9K]

30. Today's conservatives are like the old Confederacy. In one form or another they support slavery.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

31. And this is why the Corporate Media's attempts to coronate Chris Christie president will FAIL!!! n/t

[eggplant]

32. What about waitstaff, etc that get tips? They get extra screwed already with a pittance for MW

What happens to their minimum?

[MattBaggins]

59. It will go up a bit.

Will still be a joke but it will get adjusted upwards.

Stupid system imho.

[Coyotl]

33. Proud to be rec #50

[JohnnyRingo]

35. Republicans have to be stunned....

Who would have guessed that most people want to earn more money?

...and they say republicans are out of touch.

[Arugula Latte]

39. They've been trying to catapult the propaganda on this

but to no avail.

[Jim Lane]

36. New Jersey is a good example.

Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have increased the minimum wage. Last week, the voters overwhelmingly re-elected Christie, but at the same time overwhelmingly approved a referendum to effect the increase that he'd previously succeeded in blocking.

A referendum is a cumbersome project that should be a last resort, though. It's much better to use the minimum wage as one more issue as part of an overall theme that the Republicans, and in particular the Republican candidate in the district being addressed, is too beholden to big business and indifferent to the average person's needs. Over the decades, polling has identified this image as a persistent problem area for Republicans. The minimum wage plays into it perfectly.

[TheKentuckian]

37. There is no shortage of material to pound thee opposition with.

There is obviously a will deficit because nothing is pounded other than sometimes between statments of agreement during the election season.

The problem is the foolish, stubborn, and I think too often, the very devious insistence that they be convinced, bargained with, or cajoled into the right things or at least rational things instead of crushing them and calling a spade a fucking spade when discussing them and their despicable policies and actions.

Refusing to speak plainly is not being any kind of an adult in the room, but rather it is weasely, a con, or both and ever negotiating from somewhere in what they once or even currently claim to be comfortable with.

Hell yeah, we need to beat the drums. What else is new?

[Arugula Latte]

38. OMG!!! That's Class Warfare!!!

[grahamhgreen]

40. Slightly higher than support for Medicare for all!

[Scuba]

41. "While the American people want a higher minimum wage, Republicans in Congress support ..."

While the American people want a higher minimum wage, Republicans in Congress support getting rid of all minimum wage laws.


Here, let me fix that ....

While the American people want a higher minimum wage, the oligarchs who own the Republicans in Congress support getting rid of all wages.

There, now it's accurate.

[Dawgs]

42. Why it's taken Democrats, incl. most here, so long to get behind this is mind boggling.

Minimum wage discussion was almost non-existent up until very recently.

[MoonRiver]

43. And $9 an hour is a piss poor raise.

Should be $12, imo, to help people at all. Rethuglicans are completely disgusting and EVIL.

[valerief]

44. Until 76% of the 1% want it, it doesn't matter what 76% of the 99% want.

It's that way with everything.

[harun]

46. +1, been that way as long as I remember.

[Salviati]

45. Democrats need to nationalize this issue for 2014

It could wrest the house from the cold grip of the dead-but-doesn't-realize-it-yet shambling husk of the republican party.

[Beartracks]

49. Republicans are always the first to claim...

... that Democrats condescend to know what's best for the American people... Yet that's exactly what they are themselves doing: claiming to know what is best for America's workers.

Weirdly, Republicans claim that not paying workers better will result in workers getting paid better. Ah, conservative logic!

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[bobGandolf]

51. Great topic for the 2014 mid-terms

Say and repeat it, over, and over, and over,and over====

Dems are for raising minimum wage repugs against

[Bill USA]

52. of course, this won't get the attention on Corp/GOP tv as cutting Debt by cutting Government!!

People MUST be told to run from Corp/GOP tv and to the internet to get informed!!


recommended!!

[Ikonoklast]

53. Raise minimum wages to a real living wage, and taxes will go down as people won't need as much

help in order to survive...and they in turn, become taxpayers that contribute even more to the system.


Win/Win.


I'll gladly pay that extra twenty-five cents for a burger fires and a coke in higher wages in order for that scenario to come about.

[dchill]

54. Hey Rubio...

Do you support a MAXIMUM wage? That would work too.

[BlueJac]

56. Why do I hate the GOP?

Go figure!

[blkmusclmachine]

61. GOP sucks.

[zappaman]

62. Giant kick and rec! n/t