Posted on 02/21/2021 10:09:12 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) declared Sunday that we should not want “low-wage businesses” when pressed on small businesses who would struggle under a federal mandate to pay employees $15 an hour.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would cost 1.4 million Americans their jobs over the next four years.
Khanna said, “Abby, it’s absolutely the right time to give working Americans a raise. Let’s look at the facts. Amazon raised their wage to $15 nationally, not regionally. They have more jobs today. It didn’t hurt job creation or business. Target followed. They also did it nationally, more jobs.”
Phillip said, “Large businesses like Amazon and McDonald’s, for example, can and perhaps should pay more, but I’m wondering what is your plan for smaller businesses? How does this, in your view, affect mom and pop businesses who are just struggling to keep their doors open, keep workers on pate roll right now?”
Khanna said, “Well, they should be doing it by paying people low wages. We don’t want low-wage businesses. Most successful small businesses can pay a fair wage. If you look at the minimum wage, it increased with worker productivity until 1968, and that relationship was severed. If workers were actually getting paid for the value they were creating, it would be up to $23. I love small businesses, I’m all for it, but I don’t want small businesses that are underpaying employees. It’s fair for people to be making what they’re producing. I think $15 is very reasonable in this country
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Illegal workers they could care less about, but stiff them on a penny in taxes and they'll throw you in the woodchipper. It's all about the benjamins.
We don’t want California in America.
LOL That was funny, and it's funnier because it's true. South and East Asians count as 'honorary whites' in the Dem racial hierarchy, so they get the shaft.
IOW, he admits that they are intentionally destroying small business. I guess they don’t want people working, or competing with their big-money donors.
Representative Ho Khanna
Once in a while, they accidentally blurt out the truth.
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