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Dem Rep. Ro Khanna: 'We Don't Want' Small Businesses That Can't Pay $15/Hour Minimum Wage in America
Red State ^ | 02/21/2021 | Nick Arama

Posted on 02/21/2021 8:24:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: vpintheak

Correct. ‘they don’t want you to.’

$15 minimum wage is a way to consolidate power. It is actually quite clever really. Instead of going in and just taking the farm and moving people into the city, raising the minimum wage this high accomplishes the same end goal, just a little more softly.

Those not ‘smart enough’ to be able to hold jobs at the higher wage, will likely find themselves outsourced to work on the Gates farmland or they will be using the immigrants on the farms to do jobs Americans refuse to do.


41 posted on 02/22/2021 2:09:40 AM PST by EBH (Deer in the headlights get killed)
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To: SeekAndFind

No more retarded than asking for a $2K “stimulus check,” in other words very retarded.


42 posted on 02/22/2021 2:38:41 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: SeekAndFind

America Leadership becoming Indian...Pakastani...Chinese....and a host of others running our country in the interest of their home countries and change our culture norms to theirs....it is never ending.


43 posted on 02/22/2021 2:51:51 AM PST by caww
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To: Cen-Tejas

They’re appointing people of other cultures to take the lead so when it all crashes they’ll blame them.


44 posted on 02/22/2021 2:53:26 AM PST by caww
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To: SeekAndFind

Criminal democrats. Remember, though, the real enemy are democrat voters.


45 posted on 02/22/2021 2:53:53 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And that’s how you lose small businesses. I’d love to know who that clown’s donors are.


46 posted on 02/22/2021 2:57:03 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Starcitizen
He actually claimed that if workers were paid for their “productivity” they would be paid $23/hour.

Their culture background sees everything through the lens of the haves and the have nots. And that the US is a rich nation that can afford whatever politicians think they should.

I hate our country being led by people with different culture back grounds/leanings. They sign up for every organization and committee that will 'rip off' our governments revenue for their home country and favor their personal activist agendas.

47 posted on 02/22/2021 3:02:55 AM PST by caww
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To: wastedyears

Rep. Ro Khanna Named 4th Richest Californian in Congress


48 posted on 02/22/2021 3:06:58 AM PST by caww
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To: The Duke

Cheapskate! $55 sounds good to me. Heck, make it $60. Whoever can’t or won’t pay that measly amount should close their doors.


49 posted on 02/22/2021 4:18:07 AM PST by Russ (I )
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To: Russ

Fast food hamburgers will cost $200 if the min wage goes up. Just ask any Freeper.


50 posted on 02/22/2021 4:21:04 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Starcitizen

It is more complicated than that. If min wage did go up it would take a lot of workers off of public assistence.


51 posted on 02/22/2021 4:22:59 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

It is more complicated than that. If min wage did go up it would take a lot of workers off of public assistance.
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I was replying to the poster that said the minimum-wage should be eliminated.

Without a huge new government bureaucracy and programs and the 80 million unemployed since the covid-lockdowns, wages will bottom out.

There is no shortage of workers. Highly skilled career workers with full benefits were forced to take minimum wage non-benefits starter jobs to survive due to the extremely broken unemployment systems in most states

You think with such huge number of desperate workers, wages will go anywhere but down with the elimination of the minimum wage.

Those former career workers with college degrees and decades of experience are already forcing unskilled workers without college diplomas out of the jobs market.


52 posted on 02/22/2021 4:34:41 AM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Does this idiot even understand that a business sometimes has to take out a loan just to make its payroll???

That is fukked up.

53 posted on 02/22/2021 4:39:33 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Starcitizen

Small business types have ignored the deleterious effects globalism had on workers for thirty year. Not their problem. While the Republican Party sold out the US work force to globalist free trade interests our small business owners ignored that and just kept listening to Limbaugh.


54 posted on 02/22/2021 4:49:10 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SeekAndFind

People who cannot produce enough to justify a wage of $14.50 hr should not be allowed to work but should be required to live on the government dole unless they are known to harbor conservative views in which case they should be encouraged to starve or live on the street.


55 posted on 02/22/2021 4:56:11 AM PST by arthurus ( covfefe fet)
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To: arthurus

People who cannot produce enough to justify a wage of $14.50 hr should not be allowed to work but should be required to live on the government dole unless they are known to harbor conservative views in which case they should be encouraged to starve or live on the street.
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Unfortunately, with 80 million aggregate unemployed since the covid-19 lockdowns, those that can’t make $14.50 on their own have skyrocketed.

Your second half of the statement is true, unfortunately, with this new regime.,


56 posted on 02/22/2021 5:03:01 AM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Wealth is one of the few things created by mankind. It is created by mankind because it is measured by mankind. WEALTH CAN ONLY BE CREATED WHEN THE COST OF CREATING WEALTH IS LESS THAN THE VALUE OF THE PRODUCT THAT IS CREATED. In other words, wealth can only be created when the cost of labor and materials is less than the value of the product. If it doesn’t, the labor destroys wealth, it does not create it. Government only consumes wealth. It doesn’t create it, either.

Even these Marxist Democrats understand this. If they could really lift everyone out of poverty by raising the minimum wage, why not make it $1,500.00 per hour, so everyone could be a millionaire by working only a third of the year?

Capitalism creates wealth. Socialism destroys wealth. That’s why Socialism always fails.


57 posted on 02/22/2021 5:17:26 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: central_va

Small business types have ignored the deleterious effects globalism had on workers for thirty year. Not their problem. While the Republican Party sold out the US work force to globalist free trade interests our small business owners ignored that and just kept listening to Limbaugh.

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So true. Republicans care for their constituents in India (and Communist China) far more that they care for Americans, and Democrats care for their constituents in Mexico (and Communist China) for more than they care for Americans.

Low-cost of labor and manufacturing beats giving jobs to Americans any day. Sadly, many Freepers agree with the globalists.


58 posted on 02/22/2021 6:33:51 AM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: Starcitizen

I used to think Freepers were really smart. There is thread on minimum wage where one dumba$$ thinks doubling of the minimum wage also doubles the retail price of a product.


59 posted on 02/22/2021 6:36:44 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Putting a floor on wages is not forwarding the cause of socialism.


60 posted on 02/22/2021 6:37:50 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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