Bernie Sanders finally admits artificial wage hikes kill jobs

[domer76]

YOU CANNOT BUY COMEDY THIS GOOD!!!!!

You really can’t. His stupidity is almost unmatchable. Except for tinfoil and dumberthanayew, that is. You stupid fucks don’t know the difference between salary and wages.

But capitalism abhors a vacuum, so over time, more and more low-paid workers found themselves in the category of being salaried and ineligible for overtime. The Obama administration tried to tackle this with a Labor Department regulation mandating overtime for anyone earning less than $47,000, but it was challenged in court and the Trump administration elected not to defend the rule, instead writing a new rule that set the threshold at $35,000. At an annual salary just below that threshold, Sanders’s field staff would be collecting lots of overtime and thus earning more than $36,000, but instead, their salary was pegged (perhaps not coincidentally) to be just above the exempt threshold.”

https://www.vox.com/2019/7/20/207008...wage-staff-pay

[Micawber]

What would the lowest paid wage, longest hours suffered, worst working conditions, number of lives lost
and hungry babies, broken homes, child labor rates, divorce, medical wellbeing and broad education level if there were never progressives
fighting for 150 years and instead business and commerce went wholly unchecked in their avarice over this entire time?

[domer76]

This guy domer is so stupid. He keeps thinking I was saying Bernie's turds should get overtime when I'm pointing out how Bernie ripped them off . LOL

Here you are fucking moron:

“You math is way wrong. anything over 40 hrs is time and a half.

I just can’t fix your kind of stupidity.

[Minister of Truth]

This guy domer is so stupid. He keeps thinking I was saying Bernie's turds should get overtime when I'm pointing out how Bernie ripped them off . LOL

Yes, and it's also going to be a real chore for the other 20 circus clowns to out-hypocrite this, which is a substantial letdown given how early it still is.

[domer76]

domer has no ability or desire to actually understand concepts, despite the idiot bringing up a concept at the beginning of this thread. so yeah, he really is that stupid. to top it off, he likes to think that he's humiliated us all when, in fact, he's the one being humiliated. He just cant see that he's the one doing it.

My post, immediately calling bullshit on the OP. And I was correct. Then you stupid fucks had to pipe in and demonstrate your massive ignorance. Humiliating you was a pleasure.

Me:

“These people are on salary, not hourly. $36,000 a year at 40 hours a week is $17 an hour. If one works that same employee at 60 hours per week, now they make around $12 per hour.

He’s merely keeping their hours near 40 so that they make near that $15 an hour.”

[domer76]

Yes, and it's also going to be a real chore for the other 20 circus clowns to out-hypocrite this, which is a substantial letdown given how early it still is.

Here’s your fellow dumbfuck’s quote:

“You math is way wrong. anything over 40 hrs is time and a half.

You want to jump in and look as stupid as the other 6 RW idiots on this topic?

[Flash]

What a shit pot full of distortion.

These people are on salary, not hourly. $36,000 a year at 40 hours a week is $17 an hour. If one works that same employee at 60 hours per week, now they make around $12 per hour.

He’s merely keeping their hours near 40 so that they make near that $15 an hour.

Lying sons-a-bitches.

Workers had to work 60 hours to make $12 per hour. Nobody is lying--Bernie was not paying $15 an hour.

He was requiring slave labor of workers who were doing all the work while the boss made all the profit while government had to subsidize the workers for their low salary.

No, wait. That is the anti-capitalist argument.

[tinfoil]

Here you are fucking moron:

“You math is way wrong. anything over 40 hrs is time and a half.

I just can’t fix your kind of stupidity.

I wish I could understand your point. Do you think I'm wrong?
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/overtimepay

[domer76]

Workers had to work 60 hours to make $12 per hour. Nobody is lying--Bernie was not paying $15 an hour.

He was requiring slave labor of workers who were doing all the work while the boss made all the profit while government had to subsidize the workers for their low salary.

No, wait. That is the anti-capitalist argument.

He was paying salaries, not hourly. He dropped their hours to align them with an EQUIVALENT of about $15/hr. The article doesn't say ANYBODY got laid off. But that’s what the article portrayed.

And the JPP RW idiots chime in about time and a half. Massive ignorance.

Where does the article indicate the government had to subsidize the workers?

[tinfoil]

I you're going to figure out what the equivalent wage would be for X number of hours worked, you have to include X-40 overtime hours. Is this concept difficult for you young people to grasp? Did you ever take algebra for fuck sake?

[tinfoil]

He was paying salaries, not hourly. He dropped their hours to align them with an EQUIVALENT of about $15/hr. The article doesn't say ANYBODY got laid off. But that’s what the article portrayed.

And the JPP RW idiots chime in about time and a half. Massive ignorance.

We are comparing the hours worked at a salary to what the same number of hours worked comes out to for the same amount of money. It's $9.89/per hour if they worked 60hrs per week. This means, I coulod have paid someone $9.89/hr and worked them 60 hours per week and it would have cost me 36K

[tinfoil]

Domer is dumber than evince

[tinfoil]

Domer must be a student. Nobody who's worked in their lifetime could be so clueless

[domer76]

I wish I could understand your point. Do you think I'm wrong?
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/overtimepay

Home>wages>Overtime Pay. (Your reference)

See that part about WAGES, you stupid fuck? What I’ve been trying to tell you is that his people are not waged employees. They are SALARIED. Are you really that stupid or is it just an act?

Which part of this simple sentence do you fail to understand?

“But capitalism abhors a vacuum, so over time, more and more low-paid workers found themselves in the category of being salaried and ineligible for overtime.

[domer76]

Domer must be a student. Nobody who's worked in their lifetime could be so clueless

You’re so fucking stupid that all my dumbed down explanations regarding WAGES vs SALARIES is just too fucking complicated for you.

How the fuck does someone of your massive stupidity and ignorance make it through the day?