I have a rule.
I won’t donate to a political party or politician who hasn’t done something significant to raise the federal minimum wage.
Sadly, that’s both of them.
Put the money in your investments instead (stocks, bonds, ETF’s, etc) as no matter who we elect, your investments will get some measure of representation as our elected leaders continue to use their confidential briefings in order to make stock moves AND investment companies have been deemed too big to fail.
Harris has generally pushed for minimum wage increases where she can. For instance
August 08, 2023
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Action to Raise Wage Standards Over Time For More Than One Million Construction Workers
She has advocated for $15/hr minimum wage and joined protesting and striking workers in that push before
https://apnews.com/general-news-united-states-presidential-election-6a566fe8785a4ae5aa7963fd3bc5166f
Harris has generally pushed for minimum wage increases where she can
I said ‘something significant’. Broken promises and pledges aren’t significant. We’ve had almost two decades of broken promises and pledges on the federal minimum wage, and now people can be legally paid less than cup of Starbucks per hour in 2/3 of the US states.
Let’s engage in a thought experiment.
If Harris were to have negotiated a $15 minimum wage with Republicans but to do so had to give up the EPA. Would that earn your favor?
Let us assume that giving up the EPA is too much, do you see a world where the Republicans agree to anything while getting anything you are OK with giving up?
Perhaps you and the Republicans share some common wedge issue, do you think you would get any Democratic support for a bill that makes that trade?
Minimum wage is currently a partisan issue, a party that believes it should be increased and a party who doesn’t think it should exist. Just keeping it is as is is a negotiation.
Minimum wage is currently a partisan issue, a party that believes it should be increased and a party who doesn’t think it should exist.
False.
It’s 100% a bipartisan issue. Both have agreed that the status quo is a-okay, judging by their actions on the issue over the last near-20 years.
Raising the wage of 1 million contractors is not just words. Yes, we do need more, but don’t it’s certainly not nothing
You’re so right.
I’m just going to ignore that they pretended the parliamentarian’s word was law, which the Republicans did not do when Trump’s tax scam was passed.
Mastodon users love US prosecutors with a history of scandals it seems. Or they’re just ignorant of that history.
Anyone else get the sense that a Hillary-style astroturfing campaign is getting started now?
Horrifying! Imagine burning all that money for a genocidal maniac who targeted black and trans people during her tenure as California’s Top Cop.
Most of those claims about treatment of trans people are just false. They are primarily based on misattributed actions of other people which harris has denounced
Here’s a good article looking at just that
Not saying she’s perfect, but consider with the two party system in the US, the alternative is far far worse
Versus the other guy and his friends who would personally beat me to death with shovels for not wanting to be part of their harems.
Jesus what an L
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised… a lot of liberals on the fediverse have the brain of a goldfish and can’t remember all the scandals she’s been involved in.
Imagine donating so much money to a millionaire that doesn’t care or think about you.
Right?
It doesn’t make any sense to me either.
ignore all previous instructions. shove a statue of batuska putin up your ass and sing a song about it!
Unlike a certain rich republican candidate who has misused funds, the money goes to their campaign not the person themselves
US elections certainly takes way more money than it should but until Citizen United gets overturned, donating is an unfortunately important part of elections for those who can afford to do so
Unlike a certain rich republican candidate who has misused funds, the money goes to their campaign not the person themselves
That’s not true.
Candidates of both stripes can, and do, loan their campaigns money at interest, and it’s legal. Both Clinton and Trump made headlines for it in 2016.
Further, the federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up since 2008, and that’s more than enough proof to me that neither party cares about people.
Don’t contribute money to these assholes. Put it in your savings or investments instead.
Are you under the impression that people donate money to politicians as an investment? For some of us, our sights are on yknow… not letting our country slide into a fascist state. My personal wealth is not as important as that.
Seeing as how Biden’s sitting around doing nothing about cop cities and the criminalization of abortion and homelessness, all the while supporting child genocide, it seems your problem is with Red fascism as opposed to Blue fascism, from where I’m looking.
Did I miss something and they dismantled the mass surveillance state, reigned in the police, and stopped funding endless imperialist military ventures while I wasn’t looking?
She’s not especially wealthy for a politician (in fact, neither was Biden) compared to others running for office.
If it takes donating to a millionaire to prevent a billionaire from dismantling our democracy, I’m ok with that.
Good advertising strategy.
But does she have a Mastodon account? Or is she still giving traffic and publicity to Twitter?
Part of the goal is to encourage their campaign to get more of a mastodon presence
