Easily illustrated.
Posted on 05/08/2015 9:42:14 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Conservative presidential candidate Ben Carson says the $7.25 federal minimum wage should be raised.
“I think, probably, it should be higher than now,” Carson told CNBC’s John Harwood in an interview Friday.
Carson added that government assistance often provides more than the minimum wage in several states, allowing people to ignore the long-term benefits of a job.
"I don't necessarily blame people for saying, 'Look, I can stay home and make this money, or I can go and work this little chicken job that doesn't have many benefits,’ ” he said.
"However, recognize that if you go and take that chicken job, you gain skills, relationships, the possibility of moving up the ladder. So a year or two or five down the road, you're no longer in that position. This is what people have forgotten."
His stance on the minimum wage makes Carson an outlier among the likely field of GOP opponents and comes with Democrats looking to make it a key issue in the 2016 election.
Among fellow GOP contenders Carly Fiorina, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (Ark.) and Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Fla.), Carson is the only one backing a wage hike.
Two likely contenders, former Gov. Jeb Bush (Fla.) and Gov. Scott Walker (Wis.), don’t back an increase either.
Bush said that the federal government shouldn’t raise the wage during an event in March. Walker told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in October that he doesn’t believe the minimum wage “serves a purpose.”
Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), who is weighing a bid, would be the only other Republican candidate open to raising the minimum wage. His advisers told The Hill in February that his stance could help him earn support from working families.
Democrats believe the issue will be a winner for them in 2016, with senators earlier this week proposing a measure that would raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020.
That figure goes well beyond the $10.10 wage that Democrats failed to pass when they controlled the Senate.
President Obama initially suggested a $9 minimum wage before backing $10.10. The administration is now supporting the $12 push.
Meh.
Exactly.
Constitutionally clueless Carson evidently doesn’t understand that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate vote-winning minimum wage. This is evidenced by the following excerpt from a Supreme Court case opinion.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So if Carson wants the feds to have the constitutional authority to regulate minimum wage then he needs to do the following. He needs to work with state and federal lawmakers to propose a minimum wage amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. And if the states choose to ratify Carson’s amendment then Congress will have the constitutional authority that it needs to regulate minimum wage and Carson will be a hero.
It’s a moot point. The minimum wage IS going to be raised. 80% of our economically illiterate electorate supports that in polls. It’s an unwinnable argument.
Santorum is a dummy too. He’s going to buy the votes of working families by backing a raise in the MW?
4.7% of the workforce works for minimum wage, mostly high school and college students. A tiny percentage of “working families” work at minimum wage jobs, and most of them will be voting Democrat no matter what any Republican says.
Santorum is a dummy too. He’s going to buy the votes of working families by backing a raise in the MW?
4.7% of the workforce works for minimum wage, mostly high school and college students. A tiny percentage of “working families” work at minimum wage jobs, and most of them will be voting Democrat no matter what any Republican says.
Easily illustrated.
No, the real question is why we are bringing in 1.1 million legal permanent legal immigrants a year along with 640,000 guest workers annually. Immigrants are taking all the jobs.
In December 2014 there were 18 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the country who had arrived since January 2000. But job growth over this period was just 9.3 million — half of new immigration.
Between two-thirds and three-fourths of the new arrivals are estimated to be legal immigrants. Of the new arrivals 89 percent were potential workers 16 and older. In addition to the 18 million new immigrants, the native-born working-age population (ages 16 to 65) grew by 16.5 million since 2000; if we count natives over age 65, total native population growth was 25.2 million since 2000.
Job growth has not come close to matching new immigration and natural population increase; as a result, the labor force participation rate (the share working or looking for work) of native-born Americans 16 to 65 shows a significant long-term decline.
The share of native-born Americans 16 to 65 in the labor force was 77 percent in December 2000, 75 percent in December 2007, and 72 percent in December 2014.
The number of working-age natives not in the labor force (neither working nor looking for work) increased by 13 million from December 2000 to December 2014.
Brilliant: raise the minimum wage, throw more young people out of work. If you like Baltimore, this will get you more of the same.
Not being allowed to possess semiautomatic weapons was strike 1
This is strike 2
If minimum wage was eliminated as it should be since it violates natural law and rights, the illegal alien problem would dry up.
This should be brought up every time the illegal question comes up. We probably would not have this issue at all if not for MW. Yet no one ever links it.
The brain surgeon doesn’t understand even basic economics
next.
We have a surplus of labor hence the decline or stagnation of wages. Yet, we keep on importing more than a million foreign workers annually.
“The real question is who is going to restore the import tariffs, and restore American manufacturing”
Vote Barry Sanders and bring back the 19th century.
There is country that uses those policies.
North Korea.
Buh, bye, Ben.
I see that a lot around here.
/johnny
As an example, the present Dept of Commerce / Int'l Trade Commission process for anti-dumping is a disgusting nest of crony-capitalism and price-fixing Form an otherwise oligopoly of producers to bring an anti-dumping case, collect the duties made from antidumping penalties. Have K-street lawyers on permanent retainer manage the case with involved congressmen forever.
Previously I said of Carson, “Congress first, then maybe President later.” Now I don’t even want him in Congress. Too many FUNDAMENTAL liberty issues in which he lines up with Pelosi.
Brilliant guy, but I think he belongs in medicine, not politics.
Yup.
Delete the MW.
Ilegalls go away.
It is a price-fixing scheme, except it’s always the minimum instead of maximum as commodity prices are always fixed. Because we feel sorry for people not getting enough money.
It is against natural rights.
It is LEGAL IMMIGRATION THAT IS DEPRESSING WAGES AND TAKING AMERICAN JOBS. Since 1990 30 million legal permanent immigrants have entered this country. We take in 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants a year not counting guest workers. How many jobs must be created to keep up with just immigration?
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