Yes, this is a bell weather issue. The GOP is stuck in 2008. The current min wage is $7.25/hr which is just as ridiculous as the proposed $22.00/hr. The GOP should counter with $12.50/hour and git this divisive issue off the table.
If the minimum wage kept pace with the consumer price index over the past 50 years, the current minimum wage would be something like $9.60 an hour. Say $10 an hour. If Steyer thinks it should be $22 an hour, he can always pay minimum wage workers the difference out of his billions.
“The current min wage is $7.25/hr which is just as ridiculous as the proposed $22.00/hr.”
I have never believed in the minimum wage concept but if we are to have one then $7.25 truly is absurd, it has maybe half the purchasing power of the 1963 minimum of $1.25. My question to those who do believe in the concept is why not have a minimum of at least a hundred per hour if they think it really works?