Poll: GOP Couldn’t Live On Minimum Wage, But Still Won’t Raise It - NBC

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Poll: GOP couldn’t live on minimum wage, but still won’t raise it
By David Ingram - NBC
7/23/14

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A vast majority of Republicans say they would not be able to live off the current federal minimum wage, but they still don’t support raising it, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

The research, conducted by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling, finds 69% of Republicans say they don’t think it’s feasible for them to make a living off the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. And the feeling is bipartisan with 80% of Democrats and 74% of Independents sharing the same sentiment.

However, it does not appear to change the GOP’s stance. According to the poll, just 37% of Republicans say they support a raise to the minimum wage; nearly 3 in 4 Democrats back a hike. Overall, more than half of the respondents, 54%, back President Obama’s proposal for a higher minimum wage.

Strong Democratic support for raising the minimum wage is not surprising. In April, Senate Democrats introduced legislation that would have raised the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, but it failed, 54-42. The proposal needed 60 votes needed to move forward. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) was the only member of the GOP to break ranks and support the measure. Even if the Senate vote has succeeded, the future of any Democratic-proposed bill to raise the minimum wage had a dismal outlook. House Republican leaders have said they would not debate legislation unless it included job training programs.

Some 28 million American workers would have seen more money in their paychecks if Congress would approve an increase to the minimum wage, according to Sen. Tom Harkin’s office – the lead sponsor of this year’s bill. Sen. Harkin’s office also says the federal government would save $4.6 billion annually from people no longer relying on food stamps.

The poll findings comes after the launch of a new campaign, “Live the Wage,” which challenges lawmakers to...

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[Blue Owl]

1. Stupid fucks

Incapable of anything resembling critical thinking...

[Fred Sanders]

9. Stupid fucks x1000. Stupid fucks made stupider or kept stupid by their fucking media.....and ours.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. The GOP response to people earning minimum wage: Get a job!!!

Fucking idiots.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. The GOP Wrecking Crew

[progressoid]

4. How do we get through that sort of idiocy?

[IronLionZion]

5. A good portion of conservatives look down on minimum wage workers

as being of inferior class and intelligence. They often feel the same about people who work with their hands: factory workers, trade workers, laborers, etc.

The real reason they are against raising wages or benefits like health is because conservatives want to go back to having a lot of working poor who will take any shitty job for any shitty conditions and be expected to feel grateful to the wealthy fatcats getting rich off their cheap labor. They want servants to wait on them and know their place. They love the income disparity they see in developing countries.

In their economic view they think the pie is of a fixed size and if someone is gaining, then someone else must be losing. Just look at how many of them are so sure that they are paying for others to get food stamps and obamacare subsidies. They always feel someone is getting something they don't deserve.

[alp227]

7. Sadly, even a lot of laborers internalize this belief, thanks to unchecked pro-business propaganda

whether on Fox News, talk radio, the Internet, and even the "so called liberal media".

[Fred Sanders]

10. They want Mexico. They want Thailand. They want to be Lords of the Masses.

[pscot]

6. Does this mean 31% of Republicans

and 20% of Democrats believe it's possible to live on $7.25 an hour?

[FiveGoodMen]

8. I think it means that they don't expect all of us to live.

And they don't much care.