Five Completely Absurd Economic Ideas That Keep Winning Votes For Democrats

Townhall.com ^ | August 12, 2019 | Scott Morefield

[Libloather]

The Free Crap Caucus disagrees.

[marktwain]

The Democrats promote idiotic talking points to explain away the problems.

idiotic talking point #1. The rich have lots of money. You cannot believe the statistics. They lie all the time.

idiotic talking point #2. The rich don’t work. So it is ok to take all their stuff.

idiotic talking point #3. The poor people really built this country, so they deserve all the money. It was stolen from them!

idiotic talking point #4. Reality is optional!

The left isn’t interested in facts or logic. It is interested in obtaining and keeping power.

[sauropod]

Precisely.

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[LouAvul]

What wins votes for any politician is stupid, lazy and unoriginal constituents.

I don't blame politicians. They are career grifters. They pimp whatever message that enables them to continue in jobs that produce ........ nothing.

(Well, maybe I blame them, but you get the point.)

Mostly it's the fault of stupid voters. Not all voters are stupid, but every RAT voter is not too bright.

[Beagle8U]

None of their crap would fool voters if the worthless pubic schools were forced to teach something useful!

[central_va]

Hey, while we’re giving away ‘all the money,’ why not make the minimum wage $25 per hour? How about $100 per hour?

I wish the Republicans would stop sounding like Simon Legree and go ALL IN for at least a $12/hr min wage. Stop falling into the trap. Everyone that lives in Realville knows the current $7.25/hr min wage is joke and being for the status quo on this makes Republicans sound out of touch.

[Hyman Roth]

Free Shit wins all the time

[palmer]

Everyone that lives in Realville knows the current $7.25/hr min wage is joke

How many people make minimum wage and what is their average age, time on the job, etc?

[central_va]

How many people make minimum wage and what is their average age, time on the job, etc?

We are never to old to be able to research on line something like this yourself.

Regardless, I don't care. This is a political issue as well as an economic one.

If nobody is making min wage then Republicans get behind codifying the $12/hr and stop looking like Simon Legree.

[palmer]

Those questions need to be answered even for the political domain. The Simon Legree argument is abstract. Abstract arguments are what got us Great Society, Obamacare, etc. When the abstract arguments met up with reality it turns out that reality wins.

[MV=PY]

You forgot the /s tag.

Republican Congress critters are already doing enough economic damage.

[central_va]

Give me a break. The minimum wage issue is a winner. If the Republicans went all in for $12.00/h min wage it would lock the election for team R.

[central_va]

No sarcasm. The Republican Party needs to broaden its appeal beyond the coalition of globalist corporations, big donors, K street cartel, the 8 million small business that use cheap labor and big agriculture. It always surprises me when they often do get close to majority when their main street appeal is so limited.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The problem isn’t that Democrats believe this stuff,
it’s that something approaching a majority of voters do.

[MV=PY]

I don’t believe enacting a minimum wage is the way to do that.

I respectfully disagree.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Republican Party needs to broaden its appeal beyond the coalition of globalist corporations, big donors, K street cartel, the 8 million small business that use cheap labor and big agriculture. It always surprises me when they often do get close to majority when their main street appeal is so limited.

Bingo. You absolutely NAILED it there!

This is the argument I keep having with my NeverTrump relatives. The constituency of voters who support the stuff outlined in your paragraph is now far too small to win elections.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I don’t believe enacting a minimum wage is the way to do that. I respectfully disagree.

This is an argument that was lost 60+ years ago. You are never going to get a majority to agree that there should not be a minimum wage. Hence the argument becomes all about how much that wage should be.

[MV=PY]

Is there a federal minimum wage now?

Should there be?

[central_va]

The Republican Party primary policy appeal is aimed at such a tiny sliver of US society. You could say it is less than 10 million.