I really think you should run for President. You understand people here and abroad. Minimum Wage, Healthcare care, The Middle East, the Palestinian cause, you make sense. Bravo!
Senator Murphy, thank you! Our first challenge is to put big money in its place! There must be a limit to how much money either party receives from Big money special interest and lobbyists!
Thank you Senator. But first we need to tax the billionaires and trillionaires. That money would go a long way to get our Nation on her feet. At 77, retired teacher, I pay my fair share, but out is past time for the fat cats. Thanks for what you do and for working toward a more than minimum wage. We are proud to represent our state.
I just finished reading your latest book "Crisis of the Common Good" and it impressed me so much that I have recommended my entire family and several friends read it! Thank you for your service!
We need a National Minimum Wage Law, is not possible to ask people to be good citizens when they just make 8 or 9 dollars per hour. Even 15 dollars means nothing, you are basically starving. This has to stop.
OBTW increasing the Federal minimum wage to $25 per hour is an excellent first step too! This should alleviate those concerned about “socialism”, just pay Americans a living wage and let their American ingenuity do the rest!
Yup thanks for explaining what I've bern thing saying the last 50yrs when ever I can to anyone I can.
It is time to vote into office everywhere Democratic Socialists. Take a look at our European neighbors & see how well it has done for their Happy cared for citizens.who doesn't want a well functioning society, w good infrastructure healthy & educated peoples? AND a representative government that looks like the population?
51% women& a colorful group exactly representing the % of people as they are in our population?
Jesus , I'm so tires of waiting for sanity, I will probably doe before I see America be smart. ARRRGGHHHHH
This is awesome when it comes to huge corporations like Wal Mart, which can absolutely afford to pay their workers more. But for many small businesses, a $25 / hour minimum wage requirement would be unsustainable. Does the bill make exceptions for businesses under a certain size?
I think there shouldn’t be any exceptions for anyone or any business type. Farm labor, waitressing, etc. you have to remember that those businesses customers will have more money to spend, so if they are running a good business they can generate more revenue per employee and continue operating.
California raised its minimum wages for food workers and a bunch of chain restaurants caught against it saying that they could continue operating in those states because of it. None have left, most have expanded.
Great question! We surely don’t want to bankrupt “mom & pop”, start-ups and other small businesses, thereby allowing the Walmart behemoth’s further opportunity to dominate. I’m not savvy about tax codes to offer possible solutions raising minimum wage across the board. Our Capitalist system and complex tax codes would seem to severely limit simple solutions. That said, Senator Murphy, you have my full support working to close the egregious wage/earnings gap.
Let’s get it done!!! Mamdani doctrine (raising taxes on rich to fund the less fortunate) working splendidly at the moment on the unique island of Manhattan. Time will tell if billionaire class pulls up stakes and moves on. Generally, the billionaire class writ large is either corrupt and/or savvy enough to game the system to grow their fortunes and grossly minimize their taxes. Call me skeptical. But please prove me wrong!
You’ve got the symptoms right - the product of the economy has been shifted up relentlessly during the last 45 years (“the Reagan Dark Age of Trickle Up”). But while raising the minimum wage is a good first step, a lot more is needed: busting monopolies and controlling them much more strongly, price controls, taxing stock transactions, taxing non-wage income, constraints on investors buying stuff (like housing), make health insurance non-profit again, kill pharmacy benefit middlemen, control drug prices, and lots of stuff that I’m not smart enough to come up with.
But I’m heartened to hear a prominent Democrat talk about the disaster that trickle up has been. It is time for a political sea change back to a fundamental belief that strong government is a key part of the solution, not the problem, and that the free market is not the answer to everything.
That line from Izzy "sometimes my life doesn't even feel human" is really hard to read.
When the rules of the economy strip away basic human dignity, small policy fixes are just band-aids. If structural change is the only real answer, where should the line be drawn between legislative mandate and rewriting the corporate governance model itself would you say?
Bravo, Senator Murphy! I keep hearing that Democrats need to enlarge their tent, which perhaps wouldn't allow for proposals like the one you've made to increase the minimum wage. I believe that it's your kind of proposal that's critical now. We need to find "fixes" to a system that's broken, and your proposal is part of that. Hang in there. And a huge THANK YOU!
I would really like to see a concrete plan, a working and living document, with actual bills that can and will be proposed, steps that can and will be taken, including ways for us, as voters, to track progress toward our shared goals. It seems too much of the Democratic response has been ‘strongly worded statements’, not substantive action.
I really think you should run for President. You understand people here and abroad. Minimum Wage, Healthcare care, The Middle East, the Palestinian cause, you make sense. Bravo!
100% Agree!
Mr Murphy would be an excellent president.
I agree, Emily S Lodge. He is an upstanding Senator and human being.
I agree. I have said the same thing for about 4 years now. Chris is always a measured voice and he deals in facts. I would definitely vote for him
Senator Murphy, thank you! Our first challenge is to put big money in its place! There must be a limit to how much money either party receives from Big money special interest and lobbyists!
As we used to say in the Sixties: Not “Tax the rich” … but “Eat the rich!”
Elect more Mamdani’s
across the USA!
Thank you Senator. But first we need to tax the billionaires and trillionaires. That money would go a long way to get our Nation on her feet. At 77, retired teacher, I pay my fair share, but out is past time for the fat cats. Thanks for what you do and for working toward a more than minimum wage. We are proud to represent our state.
Both can be done at the same time.
Vote for Murphy for President
I just finished reading your latest book "Crisis of the Common Good" and it impressed me so much that I have recommended my entire family and several friends read it! Thank you for your service!
Same
We need a National Minimum Wage Law, is not possible to ask people to be good citizens when they just make 8 or 9 dollars per hour. Even 15 dollars means nothing, you are basically starving. This has to stop.
OBTW increasing the Federal minimum wage to $25 per hour is an excellent first step too! This should alleviate those concerned about “socialism”, just pay Americans a living wage and let their American ingenuity do the rest!
This man must be the Senate leader. He is the real deal. And, a fighter and a good communicator.
President
Yup thanks for explaining what I've bern thing saying the last 50yrs when ever I can to anyone I can.
It is time to vote into office everywhere Democratic Socialists. Take a look at our European neighbors & see how well it has done for their Happy cared for citizens.who doesn't want a well functioning society, w good infrastructure healthy & educated peoples? AND a representative government that looks like the population?
51% women& a colorful group exactly representing the % of people as they are in our population?
Jesus , I'm so tires of waiting for sanity, I will probably doe before I see America be smart. ARRRGGHHHHH
Europeans also did one other thing.
They limited the number of private/chartered schools to only 2% max of all schools. This means there is no segregation between economic classes.
A poor student receives the same high quality education as a millionaires child.
Perfect, hard to keep up w all the smart things in other countries. How about China,& its trains & cities that are taking care of climate response?
Can we dream?
This is awesome when it comes to huge corporations like Wal Mart, which can absolutely afford to pay their workers more. But for many small businesses, a $25 / hour minimum wage requirement would be unsustainable. Does the bill make exceptions for businesses under a certain size?
I think there shouldn’t be any exceptions for anyone or any business type. Farm labor, waitressing, etc. you have to remember that those businesses customers will have more money to spend, so if they are running a good business they can generate more revenue per employee and continue operating.
California raised its minimum wages for food workers and a bunch of chain restaurants caught against it saying that they could continue operating in those states because of it. None have left, most have expanded.
Great question! We surely don’t want to bankrupt “mom & pop”, start-ups and other small businesses, thereby allowing the Walmart behemoth’s further opportunity to dominate. I’m not savvy about tax codes to offer possible solutions raising minimum wage across the board. Our Capitalist system and complex tax codes would seem to severely limit simple solutions. That said, Senator Murphy, you have my full support working to close the egregious wage/earnings gap.
This can be done in conjunction with taxing the billionaires. The democrats are working on that. Refer to Mamdani. That balances the playing field.
Let’s get it done!!! Mamdani doctrine (raising taxes on rich to fund the less fortunate) working splendidly at the moment on the unique island of Manhattan. Time will tell if billionaire class pulls up stakes and moves on. Generally, the billionaire class writ large is either corrupt and/or savvy enough to game the system to grow their fortunes and grossly minimize their taxes. Call me skeptical. But please prove me wrong!
You’ve got the symptoms right - the product of the economy has been shifted up relentlessly during the last 45 years (“the Reagan Dark Age of Trickle Up”). But while raising the minimum wage is a good first step, a lot more is needed: busting monopolies and controlling them much more strongly, price controls, taxing stock transactions, taxing non-wage income, constraints on investors buying stuff (like housing), make health insurance non-profit again, kill pharmacy benefit middlemen, control drug prices, and lots of stuff that I’m not smart enough to come up with.
But I’m heartened to hear a prominent Democrat talk about the disaster that trickle up has been. It is time for a political sea change back to a fundamental belief that strong government is a key part of the solution, not the problem, and that the free market is not the answer to everything.
Thank you for your dedication and support for the American people!! Keep up the fight!!
Amen!
That line from Izzy "sometimes my life doesn't even feel human" is really hard to read.
When the rules of the economy strip away basic human dignity, small policy fixes are just band-aids. If structural change is the only real answer, where should the line be drawn between legislative mandate and rewriting the corporate governance model itself would you say?
Bravo, Senator Murphy! I keep hearing that Democrats need to enlarge their tent, which perhaps wouldn't allow for proposals like the one you've made to increase the minimum wage. I believe that it's your kind of proposal that's critical now. We need to find "fixes" to a system that's broken, and your proposal is part of that. Hang in there. And a huge THANK YOU!
I would really like to see a concrete plan, a working and living document, with actual bills that can and will be proposed, steps that can and will be taken, including ways for us, as voters, to track progress toward our shared goals. It seems too much of the Democratic response has been ‘strongly worded statements’, not substantive action.