Democrats will stress minimum wage as the issue in key Senate races, including Missouri, according to an article in today's New York Times.
The strategy will be to point out that inflation has far outpaced minimum wage and that while the people at the lower end of the economic spectrum have been held back, Congress has seen fit to increase its own salaries and the salaries of other elected officials.
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Along those lines, a Times editorial decries Congress' recent vote to push its salaries to $168,500 a year.
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If their objective is to help the working poor, an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit would be a much more efficient and equitable way of doing so than raising the minimum wage.
Oh I so disagree with what Internet Esquire said. I know of people that don't work much all year round, every year, just to make sure they qualify for that Earned Income Tax Credit, plus keep getting their food stamps, and free daycare. I am sick of helping pay it to people who won't get off their tails and work. Get a full time job. Go to school. Do something. I would vote for raising the minimum wage and doing away with the Earned Income Credit.
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