Obama frequently says one thing while actually doing another.
There’s no doubt that raising the minimum wage decreases the demand for minimum wage labor.
Will the minimum wage increase primarily benefit his union backers, whose contracts often call for a differential above the minimum wage? In other words, is he (or are his advisers) smart enough to simultaneously whip up support from the poor while actually giving a raise to their better-off union backers?
RE: Obama frequently says one thing while actually doing another.
Yep, as Jonah Goldberg observes in his Townhall column:
In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal touting the order, the president wrote: “We’re also getting rid of absurd and unnecessary paperwork requirements that waste time and money.”
Laymen might have the impression the president wants to cut red tape and take action on job-creating infrastructure, particularly oil and gas projects.
The fools.
On Friday, the State Department issued a much-awaited study on the Keystone XL pipeline. It found that there would be negligible effect on climate change — the president’s only expressed reservation about the project, which would create thousands of construction jobs and generate billions in tax revenue.
In fact, the study concluded that if the pipeline from Canada is not built, it could result in a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions. That’s because the alternative means (trucks, rail, etc.) of transporting the fuel — which Canada says will be pumped no matter what — are more carbon intensive than a pipeline.
So we’re a go, right? Au contraire, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough explained Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The State Department study is but “one of many important inputs into the process.” Other departments get to weigh in. Which ones? Well, almost all of them, it seems: Defense, Justice, Interior, Commerce, Transportation, Energy and Homeland Security, plus the Environmental Protection Agency. Those poor saps at Housing and Urban Development must feel like chopped liver.
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Absolutely! And don't forget the added revenues those increased wages will bring into government coffers. A business requires X number of dollars to stay profitable, if you cut into those profits by mandated wage increases they have only two options to maintain profitability.
1. Increase prices, that is a limited option.
2. Decrease worker hours while simultaneously increasing employee workload.