Scummy Lawmaker Calls For Raise In The Minimum Wage While Paying His Interns Nothing
Internships like this usually can only go to kids whose parents have means, because what kid from a poorer family can work for free?
Jack Spencer writes at MichiganCapitolConfidential:
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, is a proponent of increasing the minimum wage for low-skill, limited-experience workers. Unless, that is, they work for him.Earlier this year, Peters joined with 32 of his colleagues to co-sponsor a bill that would hike the federal minimum wage mandate to $12 an hour by 2020.
"Nobody who works full time in this country should have to live in poverty, but that is the brutal economic reality for millions of families across the country right now who can't make ends meet in the face of stagnant wages and increased costs of daily necessities," Peters said in a news release touting the legislation.
However, Peters' office participates in internship programs in which young people work without pay for Congress. These unpaid internship positions are offered on the basis that they are an opportunity to gain experience.
via @reasonpolicy
Increasing the base pay of skilless shelf stockers wont make those necessities any cheaper Senator.
lujlp at June 9, 2015 11:50 PM
Opportunist and socialist buys votes from people who can't understand algebra, doesn't realize customers, not the government, pays wages.
Radwaste at June 10, 2015 2:39 AM
Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, is just another zero shaped like an asshole.
Canvasback at June 10, 2015 4:03 AM
We need an amendment that requires Congress to abide by the law they pass.
Bob in Texas at June 10, 2015 4:52 AM
> We need an amendment that requires Congress to
> abide by the law they pass.
It looks to me like they do. Unpaid internships are legal for the private sector:
http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
Snoopy at June 10, 2015 5:29 AM
Raising the minimum wage is an incentive to low skilled people to remain that way. Why study or improve your ability to get a higher paying job when you can demand that the government force your employer to give you more money than you are worth.
Jay at June 10, 2015 6:37 AM
"Unpaid internships are legal for the private sector:"
Yes and it is usually the ones who use unpaid interns most who also push the minimum wage hikes on others. It is that hypocrisy that is being pointed out. for example Huffington.
You need to be made to pay your people more because it's evil, meanwhile my people fall through a specially made loophole and get paid zero.
Joe j at June 10, 2015 7:36 AM
If it's okay to get your foot in the door and learn at no pay, logic then follows that it should be okay to get your foot in the door for $8. Or anything, it really shouldn't be the government's business. It's just buying votes with a third party's money, while making the third party... who actually provides money ti the voter.... the villain.
Trust at June 10, 2015 10:09 AM
They tried that when Newt Gingrich was Speaker. It passed in a flurry of celebration and was quietly repealed afterward.
Conan the Grammarian at June 10, 2015 11:36 AM
Jay: "Raising the minimum wage is an incentive to low skilled people to remain that way."
Don't forget it is also an incentive for them to vote Democratic.
BobinTexas: "We need an amendment that requires Congress to abide by the law they pass."
Yea, something like how Congress critters also have to buy Obamacare. Oh wait, never mind.
charles at June 10, 2015 5:22 PM
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