RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $14 AN HOUR USING THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK!

Ann Coulter website ^ | February 26, 2014 | Ann Coulter

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

...increasing the minimum wage was not important for American workers during the first five years of Obama's presidency -- least of all his first two years, when Democrats controlled Congress and could have passed anything. (And did!) No. 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.

Those first two years they were pushing through tax increases on working people -- not merely trying to drop the Bush income tax cuts, but also glomming on the taxes that are the very top and bottom of Obamacare.

[DaveA37]

My guess that raising the MINIMUM wage will lead to raising ALL wages. There will be no end to this foolishness.

[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]

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.

I hope that's just an independent observation, because this column does not advocate forcing anyone to pay any rate. It advocates halting legal immigration and reversing the suppression of wages by no longer importing a million legal low-skilled workers every year from the third world.

[andyk]

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