The Set It and Leave it Alone Minimum Wage Act of 2015 (Signed)

[Lief 🗽]

AYE

[Cranberry]

Aye

[TNF]

Aye

[windjammer]

This has enough votes to pass.

Senators have 24 hours to change their vote.

[Blair]

Aye

[Senator Cris]

Abstain

I have still doubts about interns, but I think that the Senate did a great work on improve it and I'll vote Abstain.

[bore]

Before we finish with this, should we include a waiver for internships which last less than, say, a week?

[windjammer]

The results of the vote:
Aye (6): Talleyrand, Windjammer, TNF, Blair, Lief, Cranberry
Abstain (1): Cris
Non voting (3): SWE, Polnut, Hagrid.

This bill has passed the senate and is now sent to the president.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

My apologies for missing this vote - I'm fully back on deck

[windjammer]

My apologies for missing this vote - I'm fully back on deck

Don't worry, it can happen sometimes . You need to take care of yourself considering you're sick!

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Me as well, although my "FTR nay" wouldn't have made a difference anyway.

[bore]

I am proud to sign this bill improving the lot of atlasian workers, trust the DoIA under Secretary Barnes to enforce this sensitively and fairly, and look forward to a further bill dealing specifically with internships.

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X Bore

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Where is the outrage at the Senate unanimously passing a $15 minimum wage, from the same crowd that that moaned incestantly behind the scenes about my conditioned voting. At least a reluctant nay bemoaning a good opportunity wasted to advance a good idea in place of a bad was still a nay on a terrible policy.

I wrote this bill at $14 because I calculated that to be about the current rate with the inflationary induced increases under the previous statute. In fairness, I probably should have halted the formulaic increase, but my goal wasn't to hit workers, but to stop the incessant meddling with the policy by the gropers of the Senate's social engineers and allow for the economy to adjust to a set policy. To make a statement that enough was enough

As I expected, this was too much to ask of this Senate and probably every Senate since Duke left office. I have supported the minimum wage for years, but at some point you have to reach a point where you have gone too far. $15 is insane for many parts of this country. We had a very modest degree of flexibility under the right wages for right regions act, but that was repealed of course even though it was a policy pushed by the first Labor President. In Duke's second term, cobbling together Senators from three Parties, we managed to scale back an increase schedule that would have left us with an $18 rate. Now we are nearly halfway up that same schedule with yet another increase.

My preferred approach would be to let the regions handle it of course, which with current political alignments would yield $15 everywhere except the South and maybe the Pacific. The more practical approach would be to reduce the Federal one, replace that decrease with expanding Nixcome and let the regions decide if they prefer increasing it beyond that. Practical in a political sense, but forming that in a policy sense is difficult as all hell.

[TNF]

No one gives a sh**t yankee