candycorn
Diamond Member
This from the Houston Chronicle back in 2014:
One would think that conservatives would favor a minimum wage high enough to get people off government welfare programs. But this is not the case. Their distaste for “handouts” and imposing perceived burdens on employers far outweighs their desire to shrink the size of government and in turn the federal budget deficit. Conservatives’ concern about a higher minimum wage is more about their concern for losing campaign contributions from very wealthy donors who stand to lose if the wage is increased, not about their concern for minimum wage workers losing their jobs.
I was surprised that it had not been raised in about ten years. The idea of raising the FMW to $15 per hour is crazy in my opinion. But $10 seems about right if done in stages over the next decade or so.
Because they would just have to raise the welfare level, jesus Christ they are still poor as hell making minimum wage no mater what the national MW is .
The generalities of your argument (not to mention the fallacies as indicated through historical lesson) are profound.
Say what? Minimum wage used to be 25 cents an hour, I have no clue when we started to give welfare to workers but I know damn well they had to raise it with the increase of the MW over the years.
Hell I read like over 50% of California workers are eligible..
The economy has shifted from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. With it, labor compensation has remained stagnant. When the FMW was introduced in the 1930’s we had poverty. Today, we still have poverty. If they made it $15 or $150 or $1500 an hour, we’d still have poverty. So it’s a strawman to link the two.
What is important is as labor has been better compensated through the FMW; the business owners have been able to centralize massive amounts of wealth and the middle class has expanded.
It is a balancing act.