Tighten the border and you won’t have to raise minimum wage.
Those earning “minumum wage” who come from across our southern border must be doing alright as they wire BILLIONS of dollars back home to Mexico every year.
So either they are not reporting their taxable income or they are getting financial assistance to offset what they are sending HOME or both.
Cause and effect? How does it work? Somehow, the liberals have managed to immunize or innoculate millions of people against the persuasive power of facts, logic, and reason. Common sense. They have no knowledge base of historical facts to draw upon. Remember when “educators” use to tell us rote memorization of facts and figures wasn’t necessary for stufents? Now you know why they did that. People are simply unable to process information in any meaningful way today, they can regurgitate emotional talking points approved by their betters in the fake news media and popular culture.
Leftists are extfemely good at plucking a kernel of truth or fact, but then they bury it in a pile BS and erroneous conclusions. That’s what happens of course when their premise is faulty to begin with. It is insidious and very difficult for the average person to understand the for es and techniques arrayed against them.
It is true that for many years a single wage earner could support a family. This was in fact before women in general had entered the workforce. So the problem as it were, is actually worse than she lets on. Nobody was buying a house on minimum wave.
While she may mean well, the fact of the matter is that it is the incessant meddling by government that causes these epic distortions in prices and taxation and a general decline in prosperity. Deficit spending, borrowing, taxation, offshoring of good paying jobs, insourcing of cheap labor, monetary inflation, artificially low interest rates, explosion of government “benefits”, endless foreign wars and entanglements, the list is endless, have cratered the economy over the years. Health care for just one example, was never “affordable”, but it was at least manageable. Medicaire and other programs put an end to that. Costs exploded after 1965.
College wasn’t for everyone, and it was expensive, but bright promising students, if they were accepted, could receive a world class education. At one time California state universities were free. The GI BILL paid the cost of the school tuition regardless of the cost, if you got accepted to Harvard, they’d pay it. Today it’s a flat rate of $800 a month, maybe enough to find a parking spot. Guess what happened after government started underwriting loans?
When a dollar was silver, $1.25 would translate to around $20 in today’s funny money. No legislation required, no mandates from the city council, no demonstrations and marches necessary.
The policies she and her cohorts have championed over the years are what has lead to this. Plenty of blame to go around with “Republicans” as well. It’s as if you’re working in your yard minding your own business, she comes up and breaks your leg with a maul, then hands you a crutch and says
“Aren’t you glad I came along?”