[Alberta's Child]

The basic issue here is quite simple:

It's not really the employer that determines compensation levels for its workers. Ultimately, it's the customer who dictates these things. This puts the employer in a position where the upward pressure on wages in a tight labor market (hypothetically speaking, as this is not a tight labor market) competes with the downward pressure on prices from customers.

[going hot]

The basic issue here is quite simple:

Yes it is.

It is that the WaPo continues to attempt to misinform the gullible in an effort to continue the foisting of the socialist agenda on the united states.

That, is the issue.