Rashida Tlaib: The federal minimum wage 'should be $20 an hour'

[Right_in_Virginia]

Rashida Tlaib: The federal minimum wage 'should be $20 an hour'
Washington Examiner, Jul 22, 2019

Rep. Rashida Tlaib said the federal minimum wage should be raised to $20 an hour.

"Big fights like this one, $15. When we started it, it should have been $15," the Michigan Democrat said in a video posted by America Rising on Monday. "Now I think it should be $20 ... It should be $20 an hour. $18-20 an hour."

Tlaib said the higher minimum was because the cost of "a lot of things" has gone up.

Tlaib, 42, has been on the front lines of the "Fight for $15." In 2018, the congresswoman was arrested during a protest in support of a national fast food workers walkout to demand a $15 per hour minimum wage.

"These corporations are making billions off of our blood and sweat," then-candidate Tlaib said. "That's the most American thing you can do today: to push back, because they are pushing our children into poverty, because we deserve better."


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rashida-tlaib-the-federal-minimum-wage-should-be-20-an-hour

[Hoodat]

Rashida Tlaib: The federal minimum wage 'should be $20 an hour'

John Gage   |   22 Jul 2019

Rep. Rashida Tlaib said the federal minimum wage should be raised to $20 an hour.

"Big fights like this one, $15. When we started it, it should have been $15," the Michigan Democrat said in a video posted by America Rising on Monday. "Now I think it should be $20 ... It should be $20 an hour. $18-20 an hour."

Tlaib said the higher minimum was because the cost of "a lot of things" has gone up.  .  .  .

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rashida-tlaib-the-federal-minimum-wage-should-be-dollar20-an-hour/ar-AAEIVxz


Classic economic idiocy on display.  If you think the cost of "a lot of things" has gone up now, just wait until a $20/hr minimum wage goes into effect.  And why stop at $20?  Why not $50/hr?  $100/hr?  If $15 is good and $20 is better, then $100/hr should really do the trick.

btw, the reason prices have gone up in the last 10 years is because Congress has dumped an additional $14 trillion in new money into the economy for the sole purpose of helping them get re-elected.  More money chasing fewer goods means prices go up.  And more importantly, it means that the standard of living of all Americans goes down.

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[skeeter]

Rashida Tlaib: The federal minimum wage 'should be $20 an hour'

John Gage   |   22 Jul 2019

Rep. Rashida Tlaib said the federal minimum wage should be raised to $20 an hour.

"Big fights like this one, $15. When we started it, it should have been $15," the Michigan Democrat said in a video posted by America Rising on Monday. "Now I think it should be $20 ... It should be $20 an hour. $18-20 an hour."

Tlaib said the higher minimum was because the cost of "a lot of things" has gone up.  .  .  .

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rashida-tlaib-the-federal-minimum-wage-should-be-dollar20-an-hour/ar-AAEIVxz


Classic economic idiocy on display.  If you think the cost of "a lot of things" has gone up now, just wait until a $20/hr minimum wage goes into effect.  And why stop at $20?  Why not $50/hr?  $100/hr?  If $15 is good and $20 is better, then $100/hr should really do the trick.

btw, the reason prices have gone up in the last 10 years is because Congress has dumped an additional $14 trillion in new money into the economy for the sole purpose of helping them get re-elected.  More money chasing fewer goods means prices go up.  And more importantly, it means that the standard of living of all Americans goes down.

Leftists share the childishly idiotic belief that all employers have cash stacked in their closets & spare bedrooms and just need to be made to share it with their benighted employees. Their understanding of economics goes no deeper than that.

[andy58-in-nh]

Leftists share the childishly idiotic belief that all employers have cash stacked in their closets & spare bedrooms and just need to be made to share it with their benighted employees. Their understanding of economics goes no deeper than that.

That's all quite true. Economically illiterate leftists are possessed of the image of all capitalists as either the Monopoly Man or perhaps, Mr. Burns from The Simpsons having a money fight with Smithers.

[Bigun]

Heck!  Let's make it $50, or $100, or what the heck $1000.  SHEESH!!!

[andy58-in-nh]

Heck!  Let's make it $50, or $100, or what the heck $1000.  SHEESH!!!

Have you ever tried to explain to a liberal why wages are in fact a price signal, which if set arbitrarily will necessarily affect the number of jobs available?

There are two generic responses to this line of inquiry, both of which I have received at different times. One is utter, and often angry denial, as though the laws of economics might be changed by mere desire.

The other is a look that one might receive when trying to explain the same laws of economics to your cocker spaniel.

[Bigun]

Have you ever tried to explain to a liberal why wages are in fact a price signal, which if set arbitrarily will necessarily affect the number of jobs available?

There are two generic responses to this line of inquiry, both of which I have received at different times. One is utter, and often angry denial, as though the laws of economics might be changed by mere desire.

The other is a look that one might receive when trying to explain the same laws of economics to your cocker spaniel.

Unfortunately, I have. And seen the exact same things result.  But not only among liberals.

[jmyrlefuller]

Leftists share the childishly idiotic belief that all employers have cash stacked in their closets & spare bedrooms and just need to be made to share it with their benighted employees. Their understanding of economics goes no deeper than that.

The funny thing is, the ones that are uber-rich, they don't employ people. They make their money from stocks. Passive income.

Jeff Bezos's huge chunk of Google is just as much a contributor to his wealth as his ownership of Amazon.

[rustynail]

If the Party would just distribute our needs there would be no reason for this debate.

[skeeter]

The funny thing is, the ones that are uber-rich, they don't employ people. They make their money from stocks. Passive income.

Jeff Bezos's huge chunk of Google is just as much a contributor to his wealth as his ownership of Amazon.

Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, guys like him enjoy increasingly disproportionate representation in government.

Conversely small businesses have increasingly less representation, therefore take the results of stupid, ignorant leftwing policies like this in the throat. While guys like Bezos really do have filthy lucre stacked in his closet.

[austingirl]

$15?$20? Do I hear $25! There is no end to their largesse with OPM.

[LMAO]

One of the joys of being a progressive is you always have a simplistic, child like view of the world. Soak the rich? They’ll pay whatever amount without making their own economic decisions. Double the minimum wage?  Well that simply means everybody will make more money.