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I repeat what I have posted before. Conservatives, who have at various times opposed Medicare, the ACA, unions, equal pay laws in many cases, anti-discrimination statutes, most all employee benefits in their support of management, get all weepy for workers when the topic of raising the minimum wage comes up. There is a reason why the Chamber of Commerce opposes an increase and the AFL-CIO supports it: cui bono?View attachment 67319977
That's it. As you can see, making low paying jobs illegal only hurts those with low skills. It does not help them in any way.
This is a follow-up to last month's attempt where I tried, apparently in vain, to show how minimum wage laws hurt those at the bottom of the economic ladder:
The concise argument against minimum wage laws
The claim from the left is that imposing a minimum wage law helps people at the bottom of the economic ladder. Those of us on the right say it does the opposite - it harms people on the bottom. Here's the short version why: Suppose you wanted to help people who own older, low-value cars by...debatepolitics.com