Yesterday, House Republicans on the Commerce and Labor Committee managed to kill all of the minimum wage bills that were submitted. You can see video of the committee votes here. Some comments on the vote:
““Working full time and raising a family should never be a ticket to poverty,” House Democratic Caucus Chair Brian Moran said. “Raising the minimum wage is not only a matter of fairness and valuing hard work, but increasing the minimum wage will help drive Virginia’s economy.”
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“We have a moral obligation to take care of those that work hard and play by the rules,” Legislative Black Caucus Chairman Dwight Jones said. “By ignoring the needs of the working poor, we are ignoring the needs of those that drive our economy and our society.”
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“Just 24 hours after Congress once again failed to pass a minimum wage increase, Virginia’s Republican members of the House Commerce and Labor committee refused to help Virginia’s low wage workers,” said AFL-CIO President Jim Leaman. “A majority of Virginians favor an increase in the minimum wage —-but not a majority of Republicans on the House Committee.”
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“Wages are a bedrock moral issue. God calls us to care for our neighbors and to pay working families well enough that they do not have to choose between food, utilities, and school supplies,” said Ann Rasmussen from the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy. “We must not sit on our hands and pass the buck on this one – Virginians deserve better.”
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
At least economic reason prevails in the G.A., if not in Congress.
Why do some people begrudge working people a fair shake? Greed.
What is “fair”? If a worker, free to take his services to another employer, and an employer, free to hire another worker, agree on a price for the worker’s services, by what criteria do you judge that price to be unfair?
Jack,
Why don’t you try living on the current minimum wage and then get back to us. Until then, shut your piehole.