[RC one]

I could care less about the unemployment that raising the minimum wage will cause but I’m not happy about the inflation it will create. That being said, I think we should agree to implement the raise in the minimum wage as quickly as possible so the havoc it will wreak on the economy will be fully apparent to everyone during the 2016 presidential election cycle. High unemployment + high inflation = jimmy Carter level misery index.

[posterchild]

LOL!
I’d be happy just to see the end of lame ‘one weird trick’ ads, ‘[x] hates him’ ads, and [x] fears him’ ads.

[headstamp 2]

“why don’t Republicans put an end to the artificial glut of low-wage, low-skilled workers being imposed on the country by our immigration laws? “

Because the GOPe corporatists love cashing those checks from the Chamber of Amnesty.

[GeronL]

Wow. Talk about classless.

No principles at all, they just want to outbid the Democrats now

[ottbmare]

Sometimes Ann is right, and this is one of those times.

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[Mariner]

"why don't Republicans put an end to the artificial glut of low-wage, low-skilled workers being imposed on the country by our immigration laws? "

Because they were for sale to the highest bidder, and they've been bought.

Corruption of the highest order.

How ANYONE could vote for this scum is beyond me.

At least Democrats have philosophical principle.

Republicans, on the other hand, are lower than whale sh!t.

[Born to Conserve]

A U T O M A T I O N

[Inyo-Mono]

Bttt.

[smoothsailing]

Annie has definitely been on a roll lately. Another good column harking back to her early years as a conservative firebrand.

[Intolerant in NJ]

The minimum wage did not become a pressing concern until an election year in which the public's hatred of Obamacare is expected to be the central issue...sadly, it was also probably helped along when about two-thirds of the idiot voters in NJ passed a ballot initiative last fall which raised the minimum wage in this state at the same time they were electing a minimally Republican governor in a landslide, thereby confirming that even 'pubs can find the increase in the minimum wage an alluring issue - and they wonder why NJ still lags the nation in employment....

[mouser]

The real winner in a minimum wage raise is the government

look at the difference in taxes even a $1 an hour makes

$1 per hour is $2080 a year

over time the amount of taxes the poor pay per year goes up but buying power goes down

at the latest $15 per hour they would be making $31,200 close to the alternative minimum tax limit

If they want to really help the low wage earners they would reindex the tax tables to where they were in 1968 or so

that would not cause problems for business or anyone except the government

[TigersEye]

Good article!

[Royal Wulff]

If I owned a business and was forced to pay $14/hr, I’d fire all the flunkies who clamored for the raise and hire co-ed art history majors.

[itsahoot]

Do Republicans have any principles at all?

Nope!

[bert]

He still missed the point. The raise in the minimum wage is to produce across the board wage increases to pay the Obamacare taxes.

[1010RD]

Excellent article and she’s right.

[andyk]

Sometimes Anne nails it. This is one of those times.