[central_va]

In a political sense raising the minimum wage would help me indirectly. It would be savvy for the GOP to get on board with say a $12/hr minimum wage. The GOP needs to expand its base from "corporate managers", investors and small business owners to include the huge swaths of the electorate that earn wages, from unskilled to high tech workers. Instead of a base of about 10-20 million how about a base of 100,000?!!!

The GOP getting behind a modest increase in the min wage would pay huge dividends politically, not do any damage to the economy and would show that the GOP has indeed turned a corner.

It think post Trump the GOP is toast.

Being FOR the wage earner does not make a person a socialist. The GOP getting behind an increase the min wage would be a sign that the GOP gets it.

[gogeo]

Being FOR the wage earner does not make a person a socialist.

Supporting price controls does not make one a socialist?

Tell me more...

[Robert DeLong]

Well, if optics are all you are looking for then it would help. However, when it ultimately proves to be the illusion that it really is, they will blame the Republicans and jump ship. So you really have only short term gains. Not long term lasting gains. No, people need incentives to lift themselves up to living wages. Incentives come from making good paying jobs that people can earn living wages, and people deciding to learn skills that land them those jobs. There is no other way for it to happen.

[dfwgator]

Being FOR the wage earner does not make a person a socialist.

There are better ways to do that than to dictate what a company can pay their workers.