Democrats considering bill to lift minimum wage by 40 percent

By SUSAN FERRECHIO | NOVEMBER 7, 2013

 Senate Democrats, hoping to move beyond the disastrous rollout of the new health care law, plan to pivot to legislation that would increase the federal minimum wage by nearly $3, to over $10 an hour.  Democratic lawmakers met privately Thursday to discuss proposals, including one by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, a nearly 40 percent increase. It would also would tie wage levels to inflation.  Democratic senators weighed the plan after being deluged with letters and calls from constituents complaining that Obamacare has cost them their chosen health care plans and required hefty premium and deductible increases, in some cases doubling, tripling or quadrupling health insurance costs……To Read More….

My Take – I love this.  Constituents complain that government interference in health care is destroying their jobs and so what do the same people who are destroying those jobs do….create more government interference in the world of business, something none of them have ever been part of.  Not a one of these geniuses from the Club for The Galacticly Stupid think that maybe they should repeal Obamacare….the real cause of this problem.