>> minimum wage is government force. it destroys jobs and vialates the rights of employers and employees and so it is to act in their own self interest. employers offer a wage and employees either take it not. and unions force artificial ailly high wages. and a destruction of jobs . upon unemployment rate is worst with the teenagers. 28 percent unemployment and if there is a hike, small businesses could say. i will not hire more kid and i will go for free interns. >> i think johnathon is right. but the practical part is. you have a minimum wage . no legislation is going to say we'll not have that anymore. the fact that romney is supporting a rise that is indexed to inflation is not all that bad. jobs are going to disappear they will. people will get paid under the table it is a free market. you are going out and labor is for sale. >> it is not. it is not, wayne. government comes in and say we have to pay 7 bucks an hour for jobbs that is only worth five and half. then it is not a free market and no one gets satisfied. >>

there is a base minimum guarantee of $63,000 per year. there is an initial bonus payment of $30,000 made during the initial execution of the permit, amortized over an initial term, and then there is a percentage, 35% of any net over $180,000 per year that they might receive from advertisers, and then there is a tiered system we created, where in the course of negotiations, we learned that the elimination rights to the board were not documented to the degree that we thought they were, and in consultation with the planning department to see that the board does not have the right to be a eliminated, said there is no light at night. that $63,000 number i gave you is, perchance, the permittees should secure in the future the right to light to the board, the rate automatically bombs up -- bumps up over $100,000 per year, so we can capture that additional revenue we are not sure we will see that, but we wanted to condition this based on that. lastly, i should note that the prior agreement was very rich for the landlord. it generated $250,000 per

as i was dating, we point out that this proposal requires a minimum investment by the lessee. that is $371,700 as well as the promotional fee that is an annual charge of $1 per square foot. 1062 square feet -- we also point out that based on the payment of the minimum guarantee as she stated, $401,000 over the seven-year term of the proposed lease. the lessee would pay the airport approximately $2,870,000, and there would be cost of living adjustments on the minimum annual guaranteed. we recommend based on the competitive process that you approve this with resolution. supervisor chu: are there members of the public that wish to comment on item number one? supervisor avalos: motion to move forward with recommendations. supervisor chu: we will do that without objection. item two, please. >> authorizing the issuance of a revocable permit by the san francisco public utilities commission to union sanitary district for the improvements to the regional water supply system, otherwise known as project # cuw35302, for pipeline numbers three and four for a term in excess of 10 years. sup

be raisedo support a minimum wage.nor romney's suggested which is indexing the minimum wage. that's in a very bad idea that will lead to wage inflation. but when the minimum wage drops as the economy improves and inflation creeps up, to set a basic minimum wage at the federal level i've supported it throughout yes. i don't support anything in the minimum wage that would be an inflator of wages. as far as amtrak funding, i represent pennsylvania. that ad was run in philadelphia. that's an important piece of -- >> important amtrak play. >> economic viability. >> yeah. the economic viability of that very busy and congested corridor. what i have said it that look, we needs to look at all things in government. amtrak would be one within. i'm convinced now that amtrak is something that should not be funded at a federal level. we're in a different time between now and the economy of this country and the budget deficits. amtrak funding would be one of those things that's just going to have to go. >> it's not a federal thing. i

which we all have acknowledged is what society acceptance as a minimum standard -- accepts is a minimum standard. it is within margin. when you are looking at something that meets a minimum standard you're always looking right at the edge, you know, how can we correct this without getting it to go below the minimum standards, how can we do tenant improvement work to make sure it complies and continues to comply. >> because one of the things in the building is, tenants love to connect floors together. so they have their own private tenant spaces. that's an engineering issue. the tenants love to have files. so if you design a code right to the minimum, the engineer me, has got to sharpen his pencil and do things. in buildings that were built for an owner who says we want a class a, well-designed building then it's a lot easier for me to do an valleys o evaluation of te building. this blid i building -- building is designed to life-load twice what the building was designed for. >> occasionally there are issues, somebody accommodation in with a huge load of equipment. they want to turn this

i do support a minimum wage.ey has suggested, which is indexing the minimum wage. that is a very bad idea. that will lead to wage inflation. but when the minimum wage drops, as the economy improves and inflation eventually creeps up, to set a basic minimum wage at the federal level i have supported throughout my political career, yes. but i don't support anything in the minimum wage that would be an inflater of wages. and that's the real difference between the two. as far as amtrak funding, look, i represented pennsylvania. that ad was run in philadelphia. that's an important piece of -- >> important amtrak place. >> economic viability -- yeah, the economic viability of that very busy and congested corridor. what i've said is that, you know, look, we need to look at all things in government. amtrak would be one. i'm convinced now that amtrak is something that should not be funded by the federal level. we're at a very different time now in the economy of this country and the budget deficits, and amtrak funding wou

an international minimum tax, the president's proposing to ensure that all american companies pay a minimum tax in their overseas profits. preventing other countries from attracting american business through a unusually low tax rates. >> you're giving us a little more credit for the idea than we deserve, because senator kemp proposed a similar strategy. >> how would you propose? >> we'll give you a little bit more detail in the next couple of weeks. because what you want to do, you want to look at the overall mix of a reduction in the corporate tax rate broadening the base. eand we have the same challenge. we have a tax system now, which at the margin encourages people to shift investment income, to lower tax jurisdictions and we would like to have a tax system that improves foreign investment in the united states, it's a hard thing to do, especially to do it in a way that's fiscally responsible. that's why we're proposing a tax reform without shifting income overseas. >> and you're not the first in the administration to say those words since i been here, get rid of loop holes, broaden the

just generally what is this global minimum tax we're starting to hear about? >> not as new as you think. when chairman kemp laid out his proposals for corporate tax reform last fall, i think, he proposed a global minimum tax to try to achieve the same objective, to make sure people can't take advantage of tax savings to shift income and investment and avoid paying their fair share. it's a principle many countries have embraced, and i think chairman kemp recognized in that context the challenges in trying to design it set it at a level that is skon sis tent with the other job jekives we have which is to try to make sure american companies are competitive and improving in investments in united states. we're going to outline to the congress in the next couple weeks a broad framework for comprehensive corporate tax reform. and in that context we'll give you a broader rationale for what we think the right balance is. >> let me tell you what concerns me, because i went to -- there was a reference in one of the publications that i read this week to an american built

i haven't indexed minimum wage. >> you're against indexing the minimum wage. >> yes.riving wage inflation, that's a very basd idea. when minimum wage drops below a certain level, i supported increasing it back up to make sure it stays above that level. there is an in fact a minimum wage. when you index it, you're not talking about a minimum wage, you're talking about an index that's going to drive wage inflation. >> why did you vote to bring sotomayor to the circuit court? that was a big fight back in 1988 and a majority of republicans were against that. >> yeah, my feeling was, when it comes to anything really about supreme court justices, unless this candidate is really out of the mainstream, completely out of the mainstream on district courts and circuit courts, i give great deference to the president. the supreme court can overturn what happens at a circuit court, what happens at a district court, so i take consent looser when it comes to those nominations. obviously, the supreme court, there's no one really did a better job in highlighting the importance of these

. >> the minimum wage. >> the minimum wage and the maximum hours. and why did the south hate the minimum wage? >> because they could pay whatever they felt without any regulation. >> exactly. had to do a labor market, one for whites, one for blacks. and as low as it was, the minimum wage at least established a minimum floor. although, again, many blacks who were in domestic labor farm labor were excluded. but you know, but the fair labor standards act, you know, the south was beginning to sour a bit on the new deal. so you now had republicans as a consequential majority and southerners in the congress upon whom the president could no longer fully count. so by 1938, the president's power in congress had been weakened. the new deal, as a major domestic form, had pretty much run its course. attention was being shifted to foreign affairs. you know, by the mid- to late-1940s. -- late 1930s. what were happening abroad? what were some of the huge events that the president had to respond to in the mid to late '30s? >> japan had declared war on china. >> or

but, as darren gersh reports one of the administration's most controversial ideas is a minimum tax on the profits u.s. companies make overseas. the white house argues the president's push for a minimum tax on overseas corporate profits will help level the international playing field, leading to a tax code that supports manufacturing at home. >> that takes away the incentive to relocate overseas and reverses that and creates incentives for companies to insource again in the united states-- a trend that the president believes is very important to our economic future. >> reporter: under current law u.s. companies can put off paying taxes on their overseas profits until they bring that money back to the united states. in practice, that means a lot of the overseas profits u.s. companies make are never taxed. even so, alex brill, an economist at the american enterprise institute, thinks the minimum tax is a mistake. he says the tax code should make it easy for businesses to invest wherever they need to, at home or abroad. if u.s. businesses succeed overseas, brill says they will have more r

but no minimum tax. that means higher tax. >> i actually agree with what a lot of what the two of you just said. i do think it's unnecessarily confusing when you have these conflicting eye keys. what i want to hear from you and steve is that the part where secretary geithner says we're going to cut dozens and dozens and dozens of tax preferences because you're on board with that. there's $160 billion of tax expenditures every year in the corporate tax code. you've got to be ready to put those on the table if you're serious about this. >> the true flat tax does away with all of them and slashes the rate. my proposal from 35% down to 17%. and none of this territoriality we have. we're one of the few countries that punish companies for having a worldwide presence. >> okay, steve, i take that but -- >> get rid of all of them. >> steve, i take that point but here's the thing. on deck, i'm talking about in the batter's sirk certainly corporate tax reform ala larry kudlow and a lot of different people. i want t

they don't have to pay the minimum wage. we need to do to things to stabilize the work force and treat farm workers as human beings, and we desperately need immigration reform, because more than half the farm workers are undocumented. we should give them the same opportunity that this nation of immigrants has given to other people. to become immigrants, leading to citizenship so they have bargaining power with their employees and they earn the right to become citizens who can actually vote and have an impact on the policies that affect them. >> thank you, gentlemen. mr. chairman, could a make a correction for the record something i said so i will not offend any population. i know the definition of native americans are those who are defined to have been there for when all of us came. my question was trying to establish whether u.s. citizen, other than those who come from out of the country to work were seeking these jobs, and so i think you answered some are and some are not. i thank the gentleman and i yield back. >> i thank

wage or lowering of minimum wage by something of 20%, 25% is what we're being told. along with this would come a number of other cuts in salaries, an ability for both private and public sector to negotiate terms which would make things easier for employers rather than employees, which is what the people in greece fear. and another thing that the troika has asked for is 15,000 job cuts by the end of the year. and the administration, the government has said it will go ahead with that in the public sector. we're expecting more cuts if this bailout goes through. >> sounds like there's a lot to be ironed out in the next 24 hours or so. elin d elinda, thank you. >>> nicolas sarkozy and angela merkel holding a joint interview in paris yesterday. angela merkel, she was very clear, ireland is doing it, portugal is doing it, everybody's playing their part except for greece. greece has to step up. germany clear on what it wants greece to do. >> it's 20 years to the day since the ground work of the emergence of the entire european union's single currency was laid out in the dutc

you need a legal work document that empowers you and in california, we have a minimum wage. we pay overtime for agricultural work. and if you're really concerned about the plight of those who are living in the shadows and they're undocumented, give them a legal document. it was interest last summer, as we were going over to my son's graduation and we came by a peach tree and every single one at lunch break had their phones out and they were texting and calling on the phone and talking to people. the people we have working in the fields today aren't somebody that's just stuck back in the shadows. given a legal documentation so i can come out of the shadows, as far as the work force. there should be no reason that anyone should be taken advantage of. >> mr. wicker? >> no, we do not support a program that allows exploitation. >> how are they empowered? >> thank you come through orientation and they make many, many worker rights groups. we have a collective bargaining agreement and they know english as a second language, and there's a lot of oversight and accountability. we give

i think that this needs some additional work to amend the language at a minimum. for example, on 79a.5, the website notice, line 17, shot at a proposed project at the earliest time when the following events may occur -- i think those are triggering events, but the language should say "shall within 48 hours quarter may or three working days or something so that it is more clear what the requirement is. in 79a.7, the actual notice posted and the list of those persons that were interested in the project should be forwarded to the board of supervisors. when there is consideration of a project that you actually have an interested persons list generated out of this, and i think there are some other comments we just heard. i would encourage you to continue this. i would be happy to help with that. i think that there is some work to be done. supervisor kim: thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i know you have some amendments to it is, supervisor farrell -- to introduce, supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: th

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minimum taxes are band-aids for a flawed tax system. the solution is not to create a new penalty for firms, goes on to say, that learn to manipulate the law. it's to fix the basic law in the first place. >> i think we do need complete tax reform, and it needs to be done in a comprehensive way. but clearly there is no partners. i think president obama wants to sit down and do this. but he doesn't have any partners in congress. and i think we look, go back to the debt ceiling discussion where him and speaker boehner, the president and speaker boehner had a deal worked out for long-term deficit reduction. speaker boehner broughtto the t house and got the kibosh put it on it. so it's hard to say oh, don't do this or don't do that. we need comprehensive reform. but if you only have the president of the united states being the only responsible adult in the room trying to get some of this stuff done, it becomes very, very difficult. but this is the thing. you have these folks who will jump and talk about, you know, the food stamp president and

if you do not have an adequate minimum wage, if people cannot make ends meet, the minimum wage i thinks a good program. when i was in the senate, i consistently supported reasonable increases. host: this week from a viewer who writes -- guest: the nafta deal with china and other deals, central american free trade agreement, they are all out of this same broth. there were agreements that pretended to be balanced but were heavily balanced toward the country on the other end of the deal. thereere not enforcement mechanisms in case the workers' rights in those countries were not respected. if there was fancy language of our respecting it but no way to enforce it. this is how we lost jobs to mexico and a lot of the jobs in mexico shifted to china. we lost a huge number to china and other countries. wisconsin was one of the most industrial bases of the country and we took a huge loss in places like green bay, sheboygan, and also the loss of industry in a city like milwaukee which was once one of the greatest nufacturing towns. we still have some, but whave lost many jobs because of the trade

yesterday in the radio show, i played a clip of ted kennedy asking for a raise in minimum wageb on the floor, and he was talking about the number of amendments, and asking them to back it off and get this one thing done, and it went nowhere and that is the beginning of the toxic attitude in washington. i think that it wears on the senators. i think that they go to washington with the idea of wanting to do something good for the people, to want to make some -- >> and she said, she didn't feel s she could get anything done, so why do it? >> well, they are personally vested and work long hours and try to get something done and then the line up with us, because you are a republican, and the president time and time again has reached out and just has not been able to get things done. you cannot deny the record number of filibusters is what the culture she is talking about and where she has come from, and she got sick of it. there is people on the other side, and i think that byron dorgan did not publicize it, but for the same reason he got out of the senate on the democratic si side, because

once you become an employer, there e certain rules you have to obey -- the minimum wage. just because you are a catholic hospital does not mean you can avoid the minimum wage, does not mean that you are exempt from osha laws. there is nothing that takes away their right to perform the basic functions of an employer. in this case, it seems to me that the administration is in a position to broaden this exemption t to these employers because of their religious natu. >> at week's end the white house was ready to aommodate religious employers on this but my guess thait will not satisfy the bishops and it willl probably -- "new york times" reported on friday that they have been gearing up for this on for several months. >>>> the bishops have taken that position, but i think they also know that somewhere on the order of 98% of catholic women also practice birth control. i don't think they are winning the argument -- >> the bishops seemed to be seeking toove the goalposts and to what a rule that a applies not just to catholic charities and institutions but to a catholic employers

the minimum wage -- just because you are a catholic hospital, you cannot avoid the minimum wage, it does not mean you are exempt from osha laws. there is nothing that takes away their right to perform the basic function as an employer. in this case, it seems to me the administration is in a position to broaden this exception to these employers because of their religious nature. >> at week's end the white house was ready to announce a plan to try to accommodate religious employers on this, but my guess is it will not satisfy the bishops and will probably -- "new york times" reported on friday that they had been gearing up for this for months, and will probably anchor people on the other side. >> also, i think the bishops and know that there is something on the order of 98% of catholic women also practice birth control. i don't think they are winning the argument -- >> the bishops also seem to be seeking to move the goalposts and to want a rule that applies not just to catholic charities and institutions, but to all catholic employers, private employers. there are two ways this can go. if