Do Dems’ Care Minimum-Wage Hike Will Devastate Poor, Minorities?

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Do Dems’ Care Minimum-Wage Hike Will Devastate Poor, Minorities?
I & I Editorial Board
February 16, 2021


I&I Editorial

Democrats like to talk about helping the “little guy” struggling to make it in an economically hostile world. But instead of providing help, their policies often punish the most vulnerable among us. So it is with the fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, as recent research shows.

Democrats have included a federal $15-an-hour minimum wage in the $1.9 trillion pork-a-palooza reconciliation bill they call “stimulus.” The left-media, predictably, have supported the idea. But a minimum wage hike is not stimulus. It is, in fact, a devastating blow to small, struggling businesses and, worst of all, for the poorest Americans; it’s a recipe for fewer jobs, lower incomes and lasting economic inequality.

We’ve written about this numerous times (for example, here, here, and here) because, as policies go, the minimum wage is awful. While sounding as if it’s a great gift to working people (in polls, it routinely garners more than 50% approval), the minimum wage’s real beneficiary is one of the Democrats’ major financial backers: Organized labor.

Unions love minimum-wage hikes because many of their contracts have clauses that automatically raise union wages or allow the unions to renegotiate contracts when minimum wages go up.

So, not by coincidence, Democrats love minimum-wage hikes, too. Unfortunately, recent research has bad news for minimum-wage hike supporters.

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[Sled Dog]

Oppressing the poor is a feature of the Democrat Party, not a bug.

They especially love oppressing minorities.

[LMAO]

 Like I’ve said, those of us on the conservative side of politics look at  policy in the sense of results and consequences.

 Leftist/progressives tend to look at policy with the mindset of how that policy makes them feel personally


Conservatives tend to understand that decisions need to be made in the context of accepting reality.

Leftist/progressives believe that reality should adjust to  their policies. A perfect example of that is leftists believing that simply declaring yourself a gender makes you that gender

[Smokin Joe]

Oppressing the poor is a feature of the Democrat Party, not a bug.

They especially love oppressing minorities.

I have been busting Arse at a sub $15/hr (plus other) job to make ends meet since oil collapsed. Not complaining, it has been interesting and I don't mind the work, but $15 will put the company out of business.
It will not be alone and much of the service sector will go teats up over this lunacy.

While that won't affect people with $25,000 freezers full of $13/pint ice cream (who get waited on hand and foot by people WE pay), it will have devastating effects on small businesses trying to get back on their feet after COVID.

It will be the final coup to the economy that the Communists want.

[txradioguy]

No they don't care.  Because the MW raise to $15 is a union driven issue.  Raising the MW is tied directly to increases in union wages.  It's worked into the contracts.

Back when Obama was in office and this first became an issue...it wasn't fast food workers picketing in from of local fast food joints...it was paid union employees walking those lines.

[Smokin Joe]

No they don't care.  Because the MW raise to $15 is a union driven issue.  Raising the MW is tied directly to increases in union wages.  It's worked into the contracts.

Back when Obama was in office and this first became an issue...it wasn't fast food workers picketing in from of local fast food joints...it was paid union employees walking those lines.

The local fast food employees got a lesson in economics, likely from their bosses who simply told them that those wage levels would close the joint. It's a place to learn how to work, be on time, and basic training for the workforce, for those who embrace it, not a career.
A lot of people supplement their income with part time jobs in that workforce, too, and act as examples (sometimes) to the new workers to teach them about the importance of teamwork, doing what you are supposed to do, getting it right, showing up, and on time, etc. It is the employees who will suffer immediately, and the whole workforce will suffer a loss of quality in the long run. There just are not enough farm kids who know how to work to go around.

[txradioguy]

The local fast food employees got a lesson in economics, likely from their bosses who simply told them that those wage levels would close the joint. It's a place to learn how to work, be on time, and basic training for the workforce, for those who embrace it, not a career.
A lot of people supplement their income with part time jobs in that workforce, too, and act as examples (sometimes) to the new workers to teach them about the importance of teamwork, doing what you are supposed to do, getting it right, showing up, and on time, etc. It is the employees who will suffer immediately, and the whole workforce will suffer a loss of quality in the long run. There just are not enough farm kids who know how to work to go around.

All we have to do is look at what happened in Seattle when the city raised the MW to $12 an hour.  You could hear the doors slamming shut on businesses all the way out in Colorado.

[Smokin Joe]

All we have to do is look at what happened in Seattle when the city raised the MW to $12 an hour.  You could hear the doors slamming shut on businesses all the way out in Colorado.

The real backlash comes when the ripple runs back up the supply line. Cardboard companies that cut the boxes, the people that make the cups, napkins, straws, lids, little foam boxes, not to mention the food and beverage suppliers will all take a hit. Along the way, union employees will suffer, too, in the long run, right down to the truckers who haul those supplies to the businesses.

These dipsh*ts don't understand jack about economics, or they wouldn't be socialists in the first place.

It's obvious they have never run a business, much less run a country like one.

[christian]

Raising minimum wage was tried and it ended up in job lay-offs.

Co-vid Chinese flu was tried by democrats friends in China.  Massive lay-off and destruction of small businesses.

Pipeline workers massive lay-offs and the hiking of energy fuel bills, ends in lay-offs.

Opening the Southern border allows huge numbers of foreigners to take what few jobs their are, spreads diseases that were eradicated, and increases crimes in our society.  Terrorists see the open southern border as a conduit to America and an opportunity to live on welfare, while they plan future acts of terrorism.

[Sled Dog]

They don't care.

Their political model of socialism is based on conning votes out of people in poverty.  The more people they put on the dole the better, for them.

And hell, their party base is the Moron vote, so they don't expect the people they screw over to remember who's really to blame.

So they're going to blame, of course, the current President's policies, and use that fake story to promote their Usurper in 2024.

We could practically write the script.  But Obama's already written it.

But, anyway, they'll be able to claim they've raised the minimum wage to 15 bucks, even though in many places people are already earning 14 or more.    Many people are going to discover their slowly rising elevator has gotten stuck between floors.