Found here. Short version: dear God, but it’s like talking to a wall. When will these people realize that minimum wage hikes cause higher unemployment? …Yes, yes, I know: bordering states hope that the answer is “Hopefully, not any time soon.” Still.
5 thoughts on “My RedState post of California’s minimum wage hike.”
Comments are closed.
Well, for reasons you’re probably well aware of, Bay Area tech industry types control California politics, and they’re not fully aware people that make under $40/hr exist (the unpaid interns don’t count). So it’s likely to persist. But I’m still not leaving San Diego-ish while I can pay the rent.
Employers – particularly small ones – do not have the profit margin that Leftist activists think that they do.
But I thought those greedy 1%ers that run all those small businesses are swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck! Bernie told us so!
Bordering States have, overall, got quite enough refugee Californians now, thank you.
.
Mew
^This.
.
It’s not like they leave behind their toxic belief system.
I always thought that conservative pundits should have done a lot of pushback, pointing out that even fifteen bucks an hour isn’t a living wage in, say, Nancy Pelosi’s district. So my modest proposal would have been to tie the minimum wage for people over 21 to the cost of living in the county where said jobs reside. Specifically, that a two-person family, with both working at minimum wage, would make enough for a one-bedroom apartment and food and gas for a vehicle, and the cheapest bronze obamacare policy in that county. Rural counties, the minimum wage might actually go down. Cities like, say, Tulsa, Oklahoma might go up a little bit. Cities in the various blue enclaves? You’re probably looking at a $40 minimum wage in NYC and SF. And how can they argue against paying a living wage?