Joe Biden's 2025 Minimum Wage Plan Would Be Too Little and Too Late, Critics Say
President Joe Biden and the Democrats of the U.S. Congress are pushing for a gradual minimum wage [...]
Inflation
Makes me sick
— machinegunkatie (@katelynhefner) January 27, 2021
Workers' advocates have been targeting $15 for the new minimum wage for so long that the number is now obsolete by many metrics. Some are complaining that Biden's gradual plan to increase it over the next four years is sickeningly slow.
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$15 IS the $1400 of the minimum wage gap. Needs to be $25. 😳
— #DemExit: more 🦺’s fewer 🍩🐍’s (@SaratogaGenki) January 31, 2021
Many users joked about Biden's $1,400 stimulus check kerfuffle in regards to his minimum wage rhetoric. The president campaigned on the promise of a $2,000 stimulus check, but is now pushing for $1,400 to make a total of $2,000 counting the previous payment. Some see his gradual minimum wage increase as the same.
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minimum wage in switzerland is $24? lemme go change my name to hinga ding durgen.😭
— 🍎 iSing 🎶 (@AlexJaySINGER) February 1, 2021
Critics coming at Biden's plan from the left pointed out other countries where the minimum wage is higher than $15 already, wondering if they should leave the U.S. to increase their quality of life.
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If it's to the point where we will force it through without bipartisanship, we might as well increase it to $20 or a number more accurately adjusted for inflation.
— Damian Amerman-Smith (@AmermanSmith) January 31, 2021
Many people questioned why Democrats are not pushing for more with their unique position in this budget reconciliation process. They do not see why Biden and his party can't push for $20 per hour, knowing they are going to anger Republicans regardless.
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prices go up regardless of minimum wage
evidence: look around you
— Spooky (@SpookyCandle) January 31, 2021
A kind of "the chicken or the egg" conversation has sprung up around minimum wage increases and economic inflation. Arguments have been made from both sides in a circular debate over this issue.
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I think that as they are representing the people they should actually only be paid the minimum wage so they can then relate to the majority of people they serve
— AusJack (@strathjack) January 31, 2021
Some Americans proposed a new rule stating that lawmakers must make the minimum wage, giving them a vested interest in increasing the quality of life for those they are serving.
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Raising the minimum wage will be a boost for middle class workers. pic.twitter.com/ZtIFQyOJat
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) February 1, 2021
Finally, many users posted jokes, tirades or grim observations about the hypocrisy of wealthy Americans debating whether or not the lower class needs a wage increase. They pointed out massive increases in private wealth over the last few years that have not brought the minimum wage up along with them. Biden's stimulus proposal is expected to pass sometime later this month or early in March.
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