Renewing our Promise to Workers Act of 2014

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As one of the Senators who voted for this, I must say that repealing this bill does not look like the right way to me as well. That said, I am interested in taking an alternative road as Yankee has already suggested. I know I'm being vague in this, but what do think would be a reasonable increase in order to address this, Yankee? (to get a measure of the spending involved)

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As one of the Senators who voted for this, I must say that repealing this bill does not look like the right way to me as well. That said, I am interested in taking an alternative road as Yankee has already suggested. I know I'm being vague in this, but what do think would be a reasonable increase in order to address this, Yankee? (to get a measure of the spending involved)

Do you realize that the senate who voted this bill is exactly the same senate that we have today?

Duke/Cinci have been just replaced by DemPGH/Windjammer!

Well atleast all the seats were somewhat contested, even if they kept the same people.

I guess I love giving myself self-importance, even with such a useless claim, xD

Now, trying to sound more serious, I could certainly support that type of raise via percentage, specially if we can stretch it over four years and avoid taking measures like the proposed Wages for Housework Act (which as many other already pointed out would be too expensive and ineffective). I have to admit that drafting formulas is something I'm which I am not good at all, but since Shua will be out for some time yet I'll see if I can have something prepared before he returns.

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Shamed as I am to admit, I've been having some trouble to draft a correct formula for the increase Yankee proposed, and seeing as we sadly don't have Shua anymore I wonder if there's anybody with enough experience to do it. Perhaps DC?

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Minimal posting the last two days here.

I think the problem is that we're debating a similar issue in two different pieces of legislation, and as it stands, the Wages for Housework and the proposal to introduce a pilot program on a region seems to be making more progress.

Since I am opposed to reducing the work week to such ridiculous levels (many others have that concern, even the President) and it would be more productive to focus on the other bill, I will motion to table. I'm not a fan of tabling bills, but I don't see how could I support this bill and I don't think we can amend it in a way in which it will not severly hurt our economy.

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Aye.