Instead of indexing the minimum wage, why not.....

[Omaha Steve]

3. Congress Votes Itself a Pay Raise...

I'm sure most workers on the minimum wage would take the same as Congress gets as a guaranteed raise! The current minimum rate has stayed the same ($7.25) since 2009.


http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/agencies/a/raise4congress.htm

Salary will jump by $3,400 a year in 2004

By Robert Longley,

Want a raise? Don't beg to your boss. Just vote yourself one. That's what the United States Congress just did. For the fifth year in a row, lawmakers voted not to reject their automatic "cost of living" raise that will increase the annual salary of members by $3,400 to a total of $158,103 per year.

In 1989, Congress passed an amendment allowing for the automatic raises, unless lawmakers specifically voted to reject it. Which Congress did, until 2000.

The fiscal year 2004 Transportation and Treasury Department Appropriations bill included Congress' 2.2 percent pay raise, along with a 4.1 percent raise for federal workers and military personnel.

"Members of Congress have the only job in the country whose occupants can set their own salary without regard to performance, profit, or economic climate," said Tom Schatz, president of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste in a press release. "Clearly, members must think that money grows on trees. With a $480 billion deficit, the escalating cost of the war in Iraq, and a stagnant economy, Congress should be curbing spending, not lining their pockets at our expense."

FULL info at link.