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I'm re-introducing legislation in the first week of the new Congress to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour. Doing so would directly benefit over 41 million workers, including over half of African-American workers and nearly 60% of Latino workers.
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And, what about everyone else who busted their asses to get to $25 an hour? $30 or $35 an hour? Do all of them also get a pay raise equal to the percentage of the raise for minimum wage? No, no they do not. Instead, their hard work is now worth a lot less all thanks to the government coming in and messing with the economy.
This is how you kill the low-middle class.
I couldn't afford to give all my guys a 100% pay raise and still get work. I compete directly against contractors that hire nothing but illegals and illegals are getting $25-$30 an hour... cash. They bring home more than my guys who make $35+ an hour because they are working for cash, and the government sees them as NOT working so they get everything else for free. Free food, free housing (section 8), free education, free illegal baby birthing, and free medical - all emergency room visits mind you.
Minimum wage laws are bull****. Let the best people compete for the position and they will demand a wage that the position will be forced to pay due to the market. Build the wall, deport every single illegal alien and their anchor-babies; take inventory of how the economy does for a year with NONE of them here, and make a decision on where they are needed.
Get rid of welfare completely except for those who physically cannot labor because it would endanger other employees on the job. IF your bleeding heart cannot stomach the idea of millions of humans going hungry and you have to give these humans money for food, force them to volunteer/work in order to receive their welfare.
Welfare is not what you think it is. It is designed to give the people just enough to keep them from revolting against the ****ed up corporate/government fascist economic system we are currently in. If you want change - true change - you would stop giving millions of people free food. Millions of hungry people are one hell of an army, as hungry people will do WHATEVER in order to eat. The government would no longer be able to cradle multinational corporations paying their peon workers pennies, while the select few take 75% of the yearly payroll expenses.
Besides, with almost every State in the Union locked into unsustainable pension plans for the civil servants, there will be NO money... hell, possibly even the total collapse of the nation in the next 20-30 years. All of our taxes are going to double to pay for some people to retire, while everything that the tax money is supposed to be going for will no longer be funded. Some municipalities pension costs are already 40+% of tax receipts. It's coming.