This I’m afraid is why people, especially people my age, millennials (even though Romney won white millennials like me 51-44%), and white working class types buy into the Dem-pushed idea that the GOP is nothing more than a Daddy Warbucks party. I mean, look:
Why should we care about the bottom line for Walmart?
Walmart does not care about conservative values. At all. Walmart pushes diversity, and Walmart will crumble quite soon on any issue pushed by the homosexual brigade. Walmart is fine with a welfare state. Come swipe your EBT at Walmart! Heck, they even socialize the cost of their minimum wage employs by helping them sign up for welfare.
Corporate America does not like conservatism, Corporate America likes conservatives who vote in the GOP-Elite bait-and-switch.
I’m not arguing for mandating a company to pay a certain wage just because it’s “bigger than others.” I’m talking in general. The minimum wage has declined in purchasing power steadily since the post-war years thanks to largely an increase in America’s population of low-skilled workers due to mass immigration from the Third World. This has made unskilled native-born Americans and ultimately the middle class lose their purchasing power. It was the (white) Middle Class that elected Reagan. And now thanks to the left and corporate lobbyists, we have h1bs and diversity flooding in and hollowing out the lower and middle classes and Corporate America loves it.
Conservatives should try to conserve the successful society that America was in the 1950s and the conditions that made us successful. Helping to conserve Corporate America’s bottom line is antithetical to conserving American society and conservative cultural values, because everything we oppose (generational underclass living on the dole, big government, race-based diversity aka. no creepy-a-—cracker mandates, GBLQPERVERTS etc.) is embraced by Corporate America or will be at the very latest in the next decade.
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Minimum wages are in general a really, really bad idea. Additional personnel costs are simply passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices. Consequently, inflation results. That reduces the buying power of everybody, including those who make more than the minimum wage.
You are right that (particularly) publicly held corporations are not ideological and will support whatever government policy (for good or for bad) that will help them increase their profitability or increase market share. This is a major reason why they don't object to increased regulation that impacts an entire horizontal. They can work through or around the regulation because of their size and it provides a major barrier to entry to possible new entrants in the market.
And, FRiend, it is a decidedly unconservative to support government legislation that punishes particular companies (or people) who have committed the sin of being successful.