Pin it to congressional compensation.

They pinned it to median income.

Pin it to cost-of-living.

I feel like many "cost of living" type laws need to be pinned together. For example the 401k yearly contribution limit and tax brackets should be defined as a multiple of minimum wage and not raised automatically each year without it.

This thing is just theater. This is like asking for paleontological accuracy in a Godzilla movie. It’s an important detail in reality but not in these theatrics.

or get in power and immediately ignore it ala biden

I’m not an expert, but in that case, the company just splits into different sub-companies, no? The manufacturing arm would have a CEO paid in stocks and lower level workers still make nothing.

The real money is made on assets, not income

I wouldn't even hold my breath for 1000x

there will never be a wage cap under this current neoliberal hellscape. the entire goal of both parties is to make money for their corporate interests

They just get non-salary benefits

the "the 1%" meme is really anti-class consciousness, rich workers are workers, this individual literally forgot investors exist

It's a great move and these are bills that need to be introduced frequently by dems right now. When people say "Yeah, but what can they do". This. This is what they can do. Introducing these messaging bills for republicans to vote again and then grand standing on how republicans won't do anything to help the working class.

But dems must follow through. Minimum wage is the prefect example of where they should follow through. Attach it to a budget bill and when the parliamentarian says "not allowed" tell them to F off and push it through anyways. Just as the republicans have already done several times since they took control. Or blow up the filibuster. Either is an acceptable act for when dems get power. But they must deliver.

If dems operate like they did in Biden term 1 or Obama term 1, they'll be sunk in 2032.

I’ll believe it when I see it and maybe not even then because it’ll get struck down by the Supreme Court or something.

Good. Things. Don’t. Happen.

It would double my wages. Anything is better than nothing.

the current DNC schumer and his cohorts are there to prevent any leftward shift in voting patterns, the gop are design to ratchet everything to the right.

Not just that but if it passed it would eat into profits. We can’t have that, think of the shareholders

most of them are gop that are not electable as a republican, so they become DINOS. schumer +13 other senators are likely the same, likewise with the house seats.

Now watch as they win midterms and this gets forgotten completely.

"We can't pass it. We don't have supermajority."

They get supermajority.

"We can't pass it. We don't have the presidency"

They win presidential elections.

"We can't just pass it. It has to be bipartisan or it's bad for democracy"

They lose midterms.

This is specifically an optics move because they can’t pass it. Make headlines about this and a few other progressive moves in the run up to November and gain votes from the “fell for it again” neolib crowd. Then “whoops, 1-3 democrat senators are just real sticks in the mud and won’t go for it so I guess we give up”. Then frustration from the base and they eventually kill whatever momentum because they prove that when it comes to action they almost always cave. Then the gop sweeps up and regresses as much as possible.

Lieberman, sinema, manchin, now its fetterman. who will be the next “this 1-3 person group personally stops any and all progress in America for like a decade”. The ones that give those dumb neolibs ammo, because of course the party would do so much if it wasn’t for them and you just have to vote more so that the 1-3 person group can become a 3-5 person group

I mean, why not introduce this bill during any of the 4 years Biden was in office?

bCoS wE dOn'T hAvE tHe mAjOrItY!!

It's the usual and convenient excuse that Dems and their neoliberal fans love to use. As if not having a majority in either houses ever stopped Republicans! If the Dems are really serious as an opposition, which they aren't, then they have to make popular choices-- the kitchen table issues. And not only that, actually impeach and imprison Trump. I think America has to go under a fully fledged dictatorship for Americans to actually know when they see one; kinda like Brazil imprisoning Bolsonaro for trying to overthrow the election, and they are not letting up at all. Because Brazil suffered from decades of dictatorship. Americans did not indict and arrest Trump because they are still arguing whether or not he's a fascist.

So according to this there is absolutely nothing the Dems can do right now that would make you happy.

Because raising the minimum wage when the economy was on the verge of collapse from COVID shut downs would have been idiotic?

It's a pretend attempt lol

Yes to both probably

No, it phases in over a few years.

Of course.

Can't do anything, but gotta look like you're doing something so they can use it for fodder in the next election

any other bill then to solve the current crises, they are banking on the problems snowballing so they get elected over the gop. it was the same thing senator warren/kloubacher did a useless "flag lesgislation"

these people still trying to pass fake bills?

Telling voters what to expect, if voters give Democrats power, is not "fake bills". What do you want, for Democrats to not tell voters what they would pass, if given power?