Maine business groups pitch smaller wage hike to GOP lawmakers

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Source: Bangor Daily News

AUGUSTA, Maine — Calling Maine’s 2016 ballot question to raise the hourly minimum wage to $12 onerous, but also likely to pass, key business groups on Thursday lobbied Republican lawmakers to put a competing, lower increase before voters.

Details of the effort are expected to be released at a Tuesday news conference, but the landscape for moderating the current proposal supported by progressive Maine People’s Alliance, which would raise Maine’s hourly minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2020, seems challenging.

Democrats could kill the more moderate proposal in favor of the existing referendum question, and not all Republicans are sold on compromising on the minimum wage.

The Legislature has three options in dealing with the $12 proposal: It can put it before voters by itself, enact it, or place the “competing measure” on the ballot with it.

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Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2016/02/25/politics/state-house/maine-business-groups-pitch-smaller-wage-hike-to-gop-lawmakers/

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[MGKrebs]

1. Dang, I read that as

"Maine business groups pitch smaller wage hike FOR GOP lawmakers".

[forest444]

2. Zing! And just wait until the TPP is made the law of the land.

These same criminals will pitch the abolition of the minimum wage - but not to some flatulent Republican governor or any other government official.

They'll pitch the idea to an Investor Settlements Dispute Court. Basically a kangaroo court that has power over any and all levels of government - even the President or the Supreme Court.