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Communications Office Of Sen. Douglas Butcher
PRESS OFFICE OF SENATOR DOUGLAS BUTCHER (R-TX) Senator Butcher At Nigiri Cubano In San Antonio, Talks Minimum Wage Text of remarks by Senator Douglas Butcher during an appearance at San Antonio area restaurant Nigiri Cubano, a Japanese-Cuban fusion restaurant owned and operated by his wife Nina. It is a pleasure to be here with my lovely wife, Nina and to enjoy this fantastic restaurant that she has worked so hard to build. I highly recommend the lechon bao empanadas. Excellent. And if you come here, make sure you tip your waitress or waiter. In our service economy, the tip has become a vital part of how these hardworking men and women earn their living. That brings me to one of the first bills we will be considering in this upcoming session of the Senate. I am not a fan of the federal government raising the minimum wage. I believe in federalism, and I generally don’t support efforts at the federal level to address that issue. I believe the cost of living in Manhattan is so far removed from the cost of living in Fargo that a federal approach is normally a bad idea. However, the one thing I am very excited about is the provisions that will be in this bill that will remove taxation on tips. That’s going to be more important for working people than any increase in the minimum wage. The way it’s currently being considered is through a tax credit. I would prefer not collecting the taxes I the first place. Taking the taxes and then giving them back is not the best way to handle that. Nonetheless, it is the right idea and it’s coming from the Kyle Squared Administration, so that’s something you would probably not see from a Democrat Administration. I will vote for this bill even if the tip issue is still a tax credit. I just think it would be a better way to do it by not collecting those taxes in the first place. This is the guiding principle of why I’m willing to vote for this minimum wage bill when I generally oppose that kind of legislation. States and local governments are generally better able to set minimum wage policy than the feds. In closing, I’d like to point out one of the dumbest things I’ve seen in quite some time. Senator Donnelly of New York just released one of the dumbest press releases I’ve seen in a while. She talks about New York State having a $15 per hour minimum wage. This leaves out New York City, Long Island and Westchester County where the minimum wage is $16. Senator Donnelly then about doctors making minimum wage. The entry level for a physician in her state in $23.84 per hour and the average salary is $155,664. So, she needs to stop peddling the nonsense that doctors are making the same as people flipping burgers at McDonald’s. Lastly, she talks about al immigrants, legal or illegal, being able to live the American dream. No. They don’t. Those who have broken the law to come to this country have broken the law. They are not entitled to anything. My wife’s family came here from Cuba. They immigrated legally to this country as political refugees. They played by the rules and did things the right way. At some point, this ignorant and somewhat racist view that there is no difference between legal and illegal immigrants needs to stop. To make a statement like that, the senator just sees Spanish-speaking brown people and doesn’t respect the millions of Latinos who aren’t breaking the law in this country. That being said, I look forward to a lot of ridiculous as Democrats come out against increasing the minimum wage. So, we will see how the bill works its way forward. With a few tweaks, it’s a good bill and I look forward to supporting it. -
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