Constituents of Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, may wonder why he was the only member of the Kansas delegation to vote against increasing the minimum wage — something that 89 percent of Americans support, according to a Newsweek poll. The measure passed the House Wednesday on a bipartisan 315-116 vote; Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Hays, was among the 82 Republicans in favor. In a statement, Tiahrt said that he supports raising the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour, as Democrats propose. But he wants the increase linked to tax relief and affordable health insurance provisions for small businesses, as Republicans propose. "I am disappointed that House Democrats failed the American worker and small businesses," Tiahrt said.
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I agree that minimum wage needs to be increased but $1.90? I’ve got some concerns here.
So Todd was for it before he was against it?
And Todd didn’t want to do anything until his party was in the minority? After all those years he waited until now. I am terribly disappointed that Tiahrt has disappointed Kansans and Americans.
blog shorthand
he’s “for his friends”
This is a complete BULLSHIT practice of tying this and that together in the same bill.Many times they are completely unrelated items, and are only tied together for some political motive.What a completely LAME EXCUSE.Tanker Todd could have easily voted for this, and went on to sponsor new legislation for small business.
Where’s the Kansas govt. BULLSHIT button?Somebody mash that sucker quick!
There’s “compassionate conservatism” for you. He’s compassionate to the working poor but only to the point he can hand out another tax cut to businesses. How did the Democrats fail the workers as Tiahrt claims? Well by supporting raising the minimum wage apparently.
Tiahrt is a consistent loon. Does he somehow champion himself as the advocate for the working man? He has dolled out billions for corporations and for the rich and constantly pissed on unions and worker’s rights. Tiahrt should try telling the truth, he might actually like it.
hee hee hee hee
and the WE endorsed him?
Well crap KFG.He does have nice “politician hair” though.That’s always good for a few percentage points.
He’s make a good candidate for minimum wage!
Tiahrt’s actual words: “Blah, blah . . . yadda, yadda, yadda . . . call my spin doctor.”
THAT has to be one of the BIGGEST LOAD OF CRAP I have read in a LONGGGGGGGGGG time.
Well, next to what Bush says, but that’s daily.
CF – he was against it before he was for it … but now he’s against it again. However, after it moves on he will be for it again …
Yeah, what kind of crazies does he think we are to believe him?
Oh yeah, the kind that keep reelecting him…
Sheesh! Let’s see if we can’t make a BIGGER effort to correct that blunder in 2008!
I’m glad he voted against it.
No point in him doing something good and breaking his perfect record of Bush shilling and welfare-for-the-rich.
First Ryun. Next Tiahrt.
In two more years of Worst President Ever, even the Republicans won’t vote Republican.
Though I have little respect for Tiahrt after actually talking with him, if by small business he is referring to the truly “small business” such as the start ups and the smaller businesses that are mainly just mom, pop and maybe two or three employees. Yes I can understand them getting a break of some sort, but it all depends on the defining of “Small business”. Some employers that may have forty or more are also defined as small business.
Every time the subject of minim wage is brought up I think about what was said on a radio program.“In order to have the same buying power as the 1938 quarter, minim wage would have to be ten dollars an hour”. Even at over seven dollars an hour, we are still falling short.
Cornejo, Fahnestock, etc are considered small business. Corbejo also gets favored status as minority.
I have a friend that has two employees, that’s what I consider a “small business”.
I’m so glad Tiahrt stood up for small businesses. McDonalds, Burger King, Wendys and other struggling small businesses run by poorly paid CEOs can rest easy that Tiahrt will be looking out for them. I’m sure Tiahrt raised heck when Congress voted themselves a pay raise too.
It doesn’t matter if they raise the minimum wage. Basically everybody gets paid over minimum wage, unless you’re a teenager working a summer job or working on a farm.
Even people working at McDonalds makes $7 to $8 an hour. When politicans cry about helping working families by raising minimum wage is all BS. Just feel good pandering, because there isn’t enough people working mimimum wage to make a political constituancy.
It doesn’t bother me and it won’t effect anybody. Wages are established through the free enterprise capitalist system. So it’s all good.
The Republicans can never be counted on to do anything for anybody but the richest 5% of Americans. Oh and once in awhile they will throw a scrap to the religious nutcases and dumb rednecks that vote for them. That said, the minmum wage doesn’t matter. Nobody works for $5.15 an hour- not even “Jose” waiting outside the local Home Depot for a day job would take $5.15 per hour.
Doesn’t the richest 5% pay like 70% of all taxes the government collects?
Yes, people do work for minimum wage, look it up.
P-Mom! There are people. I did try to find how many. This is what I found so far. I need to dig in more. to find more information.
Only 2.8 percent of workers earning less than $5.15 are single parents. [4] Only 1.2 percent of all minimum wage workers were adult heads of households with incomes less than $10,000. [5] Fifty-seven percent of minimum wage workers are single individuals, many of them living with their parents. Only 9.2 percent of poor people of working age have full-time jobs.
I found another link. CBS news, so it’s not bias.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/16/opinion/main1901101.shtml
When you know legislation is going to pass..it allows a a goof like to Tiafart to act up to get attention. He’s a moron.
Joe W.–
New rule: No one may ever again bring up how much of a percentage the top percentage of income earners pay in income taxes.
If the top 5 pays 70 percent, let’s say, that’s because they make so GD much money.
Income tax taxes income. The only ways you could really reduce the amount of income tax the top earners make is by 1. reducing the amount of money they make compared to everyone else OR 2. increasing the amount everyone else makes while holding the top to no increase.
Saying that the top money earners pay a lot in income taxes is a no brainer. It’s like saying that if we had a tax on the number of floors in a building, New York would pay a lot more than Wichita.
Let this canard be stricken forever from the WEBlog.
Thank you,
The Management
Jim G, morons everywhere resent the comparison of them to Todd Tiahrt.
This is interesting talk coming from Tiarht. When has he ever been for anything but himself?
I sense a feeling of fence sitting on Tiahrt’s responses lately. I no longer see the arrogant, pompous and self-righteous attitude coming from his corner of the world. Do you think it has anything to do with the results of the last election?
I predict Tiarht will retire soon and take up lobbying – that’s where his true talents of talking out both sides of his mouth are worth millions.
Tankerless Todd knows he is in the minority now … and doesn’t know how to cope.
As Deep Throat said, “Follow the money.”