Posted on 07/25/2015 8:52:44 PM PDT by lowbridge
And in todays edition of look at this hypocritical liberal, we have Bernie Sanders, the grump socialist, who demands that everyone in America pay their employees at least $15 no matter what their wages are actually worth in the free market. Now lets see what he pays his interns!
From MRC-TV:
Included in the 62 million workers making under $15 hour are members of Bernie Sanders own staff. According to the senators website, Interns are paid only $12 an hour.
In [Bernies] bills summary, the first bullet point reads, No one working full time should be in poverty. It is time to pay workers a living wage of at least $15 an hour.
(Excerpt) Read more at therightscoop.com ...
Why?
No matter how low, a minimum wage will always cause minimally-skilled people who want (and need) a job to not have one.
As a general rule, employers will pay, and employees will accept, what they're worth. Trying to tinker with the market around the margins invariably ends up distorting it and creating more harm than good.
BUMP
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