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Iowa GOP: Bruce Braley Believes Iowa Families Can Survive on $21,000(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) DES MOINES, Iowa, July 29 -- The Iowa Republican Party issued the following news: Washington liberal Bruce Braley wants to increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10, but the latest false attack ad from his campaign is not only cynical, but illogical. Braley's politically driven wage rhetoric suggests that he actually thinks Iowans can survive on an annual salary of $21,000 - which is what his plan would do. Braley also seems unconcerned that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says that the Democratic proposal he has latched on to could cost 500,000 jobs. State Senator Joni Ernst wants to help workers earn the highest wages possible and do so in a way without destroying jobs. Ernst wants to create good paying, permanent jobs for Iowa workers by keeping taxes low, cutting red tape on small business and family farms and investing in job training initiatives so Iowans can compete for higher wage jobs. Additionally, she supported the largest tax cut in state history, which put more money back into the pockets of hard-working Iowa families. "Bruce Braley's cynical proposal sells our workers short and seems to believe that workers are limited in their ability to earn and achieve more. Joni Ernst wants to get an incompetent federal government out of the way of Iowa workers seeking good, permanent and well paying jobs. She believes the best way to do this is by ending harmful regulations that often stop workers from getting hired and by investing in job training initiatives which will help Iowans find good paying jobs," said Iowa Republican Party spokesman Jahan Wilcox. "Braley's proposal sells workers short, it doesn't create jobs and is a political ploy so he can keep a job in Washington. Iowa deserves better than Bruce Braley." BACKGROUND Braley's Federal Minimum Wage Increase Is The Equivalent Of An Annual Salary Of $21,008. Braley co-sponsored the bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10, but the CBO reported that raising the national minimum wage to $10.10 would "reduce total employment by about 500,000 workers." (H.R.1010 (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HR01010:@@@P), Introduced 3/6/13; "The Effects Of A Minimum-Wage Increase On Employment And Family Income," Congressional Budget Office (http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44995-MinimumWage.pdf), 2/18/14) Joni Ernst Supported The Largest Tax Cut In Iowa History Which Provided $4.4 Billion In Property Tax Relief And $90 Million In Income Tax Savings. "By Ways & Means: A bill for an act relating to state and local finances by establishing a business property tax credit for commercial industrial and railway property establishing and modifying property assessment limitations providing for commercial and industrial property tax replacement payments providing for the classification of multiresidential property modifying provisions for the taxation of telecommunications company property providing for the study of the taxation of telecommunications company property providing a taxpayers trust fund tax credit modifying provisions relating to the property assessment appeal board modifying the amount of the earned income tax credit making appropriations providing penalties and including effective date implementation retroactive applicability and other applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1135.) Various effective dates; see sections 22 30 38 45 and 64 of bill. Final: 41437 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 1064." (S.J. 1064, The Iowa State Legislature, Accessed 07/29/14) CC AutoTriage10PkS-140730-30TacordaCheng-4813407 30TacordaCheng (c) 2014 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |