Are billionaires simply money addicts like Scrooge McDuck?

Do elite Republicans and the CEOs who fund them hate working people?

Are they simply unable to control themselves even when deep down inside they know they're

ruining America. In Ohio there's a growing statewide petition effort to get a

constitutional amendment on this fall's ballot to raise the $10.45 minimum wage to $15, including tipped workers.

It's increasingly looking like it'll make the ballots.

So Republicans in the state Senate have come up with a plan

to take the steam out of the petition drive.

Promised legislation that they say

would raise the minimum wage to $15,

except for tipped workers, would see a raise from $525 to $750 and phase it in over four years.

The bill, according to one of its sponsors, was written by the restaurant industry.

Bernie Moreno, Ohio's Republican candidate for the US Senate against incumbent Democrat

Sherrod Brown, was recently forced by a court to pay $400,000 in wages he'd stolen

from employees at his use car business and says he

thinks there shouldn't be a minimum wage at all. In Florida, Governor Ron

Desantis just signed a law, a Republican bill that forbid cities in the state from

mandated employers provide outdoor workers with heat protections including

water. The legislation largely written by agricultural industry

lobbyists also scales back child labor protections

and forbid cities from instituting their own safeguards for children in the

workplace. In Iowa, Republican majority in the state legislature wiped out

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