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I'd like to see the minimum wage be raised, but not too quickly, so that people who have full time (or nearly so) jobs don't need government handouts.

In other words, you support stupidity and liberalism as long as it happens slowly.

Listen up. The REAL minimum wage is ZERO. These folks are finding that out. It is entirely un-conservatinve to support any minimum wage (i.e. a wage level that is artificially set by bureaucrats). Let the market decide what a job is worth and we will all be better off, or we can go full stupid and turn it over to the politicians and watch in confusion as the law of unintended consequences goes to work.

I'll repeat my reasoning. "Let the market decide" doesn't apply when the US worker is undermined by cheap foreign labor, legal and illegal. Another aspect is that we are in a race downward economically if goods which are produced by slave labor in foreign countries can undercut goods manufactured in the US. We need tariffs to stop that practice.

And please don't try the sophomoric argument that the US citizen benefits. Our globalist masters get obscenely rich from the practice, while US citizens become ever more dependent on government handouts. Haven't you noticed? The gap between rich and poor and the destruction of the middle class is out of control.