Let’s look at this: when a business pays the minimum wage (that isn’t a living wage) to it’s employees and those employees have to look to the gubmit to fill the financial gap in housing and food, who is the freeloader? The employee or the business?
Now, what would be a really good bumper sticker way to word this? Brief and spot on?
Good point, Boo, but I can see the assholes on the right saying that if the gubmint raises the minimum wage it is assisting the employee in being freeloaders on businesses.
This is the reason I wince when Democrats trumpet Clinton’s Earned Income Credit. Inevitably it comes to be seen as employee welfare instead of a minimum wage subsidy to Walmart. Then it tamps down the forces that would tend to raise the wage base in the first place.
Well said!
Now, what would be a really good bumper sticker way to word this? Brief and spot on?
Good point, Boo, but I can see the assholes on the right saying that if the gubmint raises the minimum wage it is assisting the employee in being freeloaders on businesses.
This is the reason I wince when Democrats trumpet Clinton’s Earned Income Credit. Inevitably it comes to be seen as employee welfare instead of a minimum wage subsidy to Walmart. Then it tamps down the forces that would tend to raise the wage base in the first place.