Washington, D.C. – Congressman Smith released the following statement in opposition to H.R.38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act: “The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act is a dangerous bill that would supersede concealed carry laws in states across the country. In a stark departure from current reciprocity standards, this legislation will force states with strict concealed carry … READ MORE
Washington D.C. – Congressman Adam Smith released the following statement about the sit-in taking place on the House Floor: On June 22nd, I was proud to join Congressman John Lewis and Congresswoman Katherine Clark as they led House Democrats in a sit-in to call for action on common sense gun reforms. My fellow Democrats and … READ MORE
Team Adam had a great weekend! I was honored to support my endorsed candidate for SeaTac City Council, Senayet for SeaTac, on Saturday. We also had a wonderful time at the Chinatown Seafair Parade on Sunday evening.
Yes adam smith from erbil kurdistan
Glad you're having a great weekend as the country is dying. You ever going to DO SOMETHING to stop Trump?
I voted to #RaiseTheWage because every American worker deserves a living wage. This bill would lift millions of families out of poverty and into the middle class. I'll continue to #FightFor15 until it's enacted into federal law.
www.vox.com/2019/7/18/20697509/minimum-wage-bill-raise-the-wage-act
The House just passed a $15 minimum wage. It would be the first increase in a decade.
vox.com
The Raise the Wage Act would also tie future increases to changes in middle-class pay.
Thank you Adam Smith. You know what else would help? Not lining the pockets of the military industrial complex. But I guess they would need to stop lining your pockets. BTW, if you think impeachment of the racist, bigoted molester-in-chief is not worth the effort, but you think patting yourself on the back for #FightFor15 is, i would say your fight is a cheap attempt to pander votes from minimum wage workers. $15 is NOT a living wage.
How would that make people out of Poverty? All that will do is increase the prices of things, and the poverty level will go up, and then a year or two from now you will be screaming $20 an hour or $25 an hour for the same reasons lol. Plus, we will see people lose jobs as companies will go more towards a kiosk systems especially in the Fast Food industry!!
I'm sorry but you clearly have never been a business owner. Minimum wage is never was never and will never be intended to lift people into the middle class. That's why it's called a minimum wage. You guys don't seem to care about Middle America and about what that's going to do to business owners in small-town rural USA they have one Diner one coffee shop in town and can't afford to pay people 15 bucks an hour. They're going to lay people off. Or Worse closed their doors. The CBO numbers we're pretty telling. Why raising the minimum wage Nationwide to $15 will help many people it will also put 1.3 million people out of work because they will get laid off. If your argument is that it's a greater good and not everybody's going to win with fifteen bucks an hour and that's just the way it goes and that's just collateral damage then fine I can deal with that if you want to be intellectually honest to make that argument. As long as you're willing to acknowledge that the CBO numbers say that over a million people will get laid off because of $15 an hour. In the grand scheme of things that's not a huge number but to the 1 million plus people that do get laid off that are struggling to make a living that's a 11 or 12 bucks an hour and now they don't have a job what do you say to those people?
Do “entry level” jobs exist anymore? I understand the mantra of a living wage, but you are above jargon, and we need more than that.
So bump the minimum from 10 to 15 and the people making 15 will want 21. Then the people making 21 will want 27 and then we'll start talking about the union trades people and then the college educated. So the minimum wage employers now have to raise prices to cover the additional wages and they pass the costs on to the consumer. Same with every other employer because they aren't going to eat the raises and still stay in business! THIS IS forced inflation!!! GUESS WHO THE WINNER IS? The GOVERNMENT because they get more TAXES. Everyone else loses because prices WILL go up to cover the higher wage - FACT!
Does that also apply to us DoD employees
15 dollars an hour middle class?
No entry level jobs/wages? Is a 16 year old in his first job able to produce at capacity to live alone. Interesting concept.
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