[ChildOfThe60s]

The Krotch Bros have made it a project to keep wages low and borders open. I do not consider them left wing.

I believe it is Koch. Unless that was humor, then I chuckle :-)

Again, the Koch Brothers political leanings is tangential to the discussion. Stay on point please.

Where is the constitutional (and moral) justification for the government telling people what they have to pay for anything? Hiring an employee is no less a contractual agreement than buying a car.

Would you agree that the government should set a minimum price for a car if it was purported to have no negative effect on car sales? Don't [bad] salesmen deserve a "living wage"?

Where do you draw the line? Seriously, when do you stop guaranteeing things to some people that other must pay for against their will? That's the key to making everything a "right". There can be no line, it just goes on forever...well until the producers throw in the towel & it collapses under its own weight. That's carrying it to its logical conclusion.

[central_va]

Like I said the GOP will always struggle to get a majority even with the left so weak, feckless and off the rails. The min wage issue is just one example of GOP ham handed tone deaf politics. The GOP "base" is about 8 million small businessmen owners, Libertarians, corporate globalist elites and Wall Street. I'd estimate it is about 10 million strong. The rest of the people that vote for GOP candidates hold their nose while doing so.

The GOP struggles still, why?