Posted on 06/17/2024 10:47:53 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The federal minimum wage law has withstood 3 SCOTUS rulings in the past.
Along comes Trump who is changing the Republican Party into the "working class" party. The "working class" out numbers the "managerial class" by 3:1, maybe 4:1? Who is going to win? We will see....
Along comes Trump who is changing the Republican Party into the "working class" party. The "working class" out numbers the "managerial class" by 3:1, maybe 4:1? Who is going to win? We will see....
Yes.
We’ve always had tariffs. Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, all had tariffs, even though they’ve been proven not to help.
I don’t remember Romney, McCain, or Bush speaking out against minimum wage. If anything, I think they’d be for it.
I disagree with your assessment. The “managerial class” has been entrenched in the Democratic Party since the 1990s.
Isn’t Vance advocating for open borders by promoting a minimum wage? Isn’t that the whole point of a minimum wage?
HS. For example 50% of Freepers are managerial class.
We don’t enforce our paltry tariffs. Every other country has really high import tariffs.
Minimum wage is supposed to be a policy to make open borders go down easier. “You know we’re screwing you with open borders, so we’ll give you the charade of a minimum wage to supposedly make up for it. “
The VP pool is shrinking.....
Why can’t Trump be his own VP?
Vance is another person Trump likes and may have as his VP or in his cabinet, but is just a lousy big-government RINO.
Tut! Tut! Silly Nick.!
Thanks. He does sound a bit confused about the minimum wage. But he wasn’t really talking about the pros and cons of that - he was talking about the danger of failing to protect low-skilled American workers from cheap Mexican labor.
As with tariffs, there is a lesser-of-two-evils element:
Both tariffs and minimum wages are forms of price controls - which we conservatives traditionally consider bad. But when those same price controls and market interventions are applied judiciously to trade or immigration policy - that’s protectionism, which we conservatives (the smart ones at least ) call protectionism - which is a good thing - putting America First.
I think Vance gets it, but he was a bit clumsy and got caught conflating America First market intervention (good) with domestic market intervention (bad).
Domestic minimum wage is always a bad idea - Vance should know better - but in his defense, that example was tangential to the main point he was making.
Please provide a set of examples for us on this thread.
I don’t understand why Trump doesn’t wan DeSantis to be Vice President.
Any unskilled worker making minimum wage of $20 an hour is on my boycott list don’t feed the pigeons.
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