Rep. Gutierrez on $30 Minimum Wage: ‘I Am For That Goal’

[Paladin]

There is no good reason why this guy's idiocy on immigration should not also spread to economics.

"Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) recently praised a Las Vegas restaurant for raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour but said he is “for that goal” of $30 an hour.

Gutierrez can be seen making the comments in a series of You Tube videos that show the Democrat speaking to a small group at a Hillary Clinton event during his visit to Nevada earlier this February. 

“We’re working to champion the cause of people - and I’m so excited you guys increased the minimum wage at Taco el Gordo, right?” Gutierrez tells the group.

“$15 an hour, I like that, that’s good. That’s good stuff, you know, so tomorrow I say –hey wait a minute, it should be $30 an hour – are you all going to vote for me?”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/eric-scheiner/rep-gutierrez-30-minimum-wage-i-am-goal

Yeah, kids, are you going to reward him with your votes?

[Scottftlc]

Well, that certainly will speed up the totally automated fast food restaurant transition.

[jmyrlefuller]

If it keeps going, the Feds are going to have to roll a decimal point over.

[rangerrebew]

Rep. Luis Gutierrez pushes for $30 minimum wage: ‘Oh, and a free pony?’
February 15, 2016 | Michael Dorstewitz | 5 Comments | Print Article
 

Rep. Luis Gutierrez recently praised a group of Las Vegas-area restaurants for increasing their employees’ minimum wage to $15 per hour, then stating that figure is only the beginning — he wants a $30 per hour minimum wage.

“We’re working to champion the cause of people – and I’m so excited you guys increased the minimum wage at Taco el Gordo, right?” the Illinois Democrat told the group.

“$15 an hour, I like that, that’s good. That’s good stuff, you know, so tomorrow I say –hey wait a minute, it should be $30 an hour – are you all going to vote for me?”

“You say, ‘c’mon Gutierrez ain’t nobody’ – but that’s my point,” he said. “I mean you could take this to a point in which you go ‘really? – but we can’t do it.’ Should it be a goal? Oh, man, I am for that goal. I’m for a goal that everybody gets health care. I’m for a goal that everybody gets to go to college regardless of their income. And Latinos more than anyone else know that.”

Folks on social media thought his statement was a case of unabashed pandering coupled with a total ignorance of basic economic theory.

Read more: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/02/15/rep-luis-gutierrez-pushes-for-30-minimum-wage-oh-and-a-free-pony-306435#ixzz40LtskwMt