I don’t care.
Really, I don’t care.
The minimum wage debate is a squirrel designed to distract our attention.
If we limited illegal immigration and reversed our stupid traded deals, jobs would come back and the minimum wage would be moot. That’s where we should put our focus.
Instead, we let the left suck us into another caring-guy vs mean-guy debate. We’re playing on their field. This is a debate we can’t win, because even when we win the economic argument, we still look like heartless meanies, which is all the left wants out of the debate anyway.
Our response should be more along the lines of:
“We want to create good jobs—jobs good enough to support a family. The Democrats talk on and on and on about raising the minimum wage, because they don’t know how to create good jobs. We do, and that’s what were going to do: create good jobs.”
Everything the left does is “caring Marxist versus mean Bourgeoisie” nonsequiturs/outright lies. Nobody’s debating it except those who pretend to be against it while supporting it.
To the Democrats, $15.00 an hour is a good job.