HB 1086 - An amendment to the 'A Real Living Wage Act' (Passed To President)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Atlasian Regional Senate
Passed 3-1-1-1 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,
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Somehow Goldwater removed a bold from the text.

And preserve the damn links/signatures at the bottom.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Yea, you are right. I did remove the bold part accidentally. 


But you removed the Senate Vote and PPT signature, which I made sure to include. Also helps with helping the Reps understand the changes being made, if they can easily click to the Senate debate thread.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I have to say, I'm in favor of this bill for the most part. The wage is sizable enough in my opinion and I also agree with abolishing the tipped rate. My only concern is that what about certain areas that may need to have a lower wage than the rest of Atlasia?

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The tipped rate has become an area of concern for almost every bill on this subject that I have been present for.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Abstain



My decision here is based on the fact that while I support a $9.15 and even $10.00 minimum wage, my preference would be to, rather than repeat the mistakes of pre-reset and constantly jacking up the minimum wage, to let the regions handle further increase and we should instead pursue a significant expansion of the EITC.

I am not a fan of Tax Credits generally, or anything that adds complexity to the Tax code, I want a simpler and streamlined tax code that minimizes compliance costs (which disadvantage small business I would point out), but I am even less a fan of making the minimum wage so high that cripples rural communities and put small businesses out of business. Therefore the one area I would be open to keeping some degree of complexity is the EITC, which I think serves a vital and important role of both encouraging productive work on the one hand, while providing substantial assistance the helps lift millions of families and children out of poverty every year.

I do support the concept of a minimum wage and I certainly support it going to the $10 an hour range. But when it when comes to further advancing the cause of a living wage, I think there are better avenues to pursue that worthy objective and it is certainly one that I support. I do not want to vote Nay though, because I feel that would be a statement of opposition to the desired objective of a living wage.

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Atlasian People's House of Representatives
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President of Congress:

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Overrides is one problematic area with rules we will need to sort out.


Actually the problem is with sponsorship.

The rules presume all bills have a sponsor in a given house. But with the system as a it works, bills are transmitted to the other chamber, without heed to obtaining a sponsor first. And membership changes remove a sponsor.


I would recommend that a House member move to sponsor Senate originated bills, going forward to resolve this problem.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The minimum wage is already being increased to 10$.

There is a marginal benefit, that someone smarter than me with math and graphing stuff can probably put on a chart, but my theory is that there is substantial benefits with increases from $7.00 to $10.00, but then that tappers off as you keep increasing because the impact on businesses labor costs outweigh the increased demand and lead to higher unemployment. Of course, inflation would also change the numbers that this range is, over time.

Beyond that point, you need tailoring to local economic realities, and of course non-minimum wage solutions such as expansion of EITC.