@lesliejosephs The biggest excuses against this are the most self-centered shit I've seen in a while. "Things will cost more!" YES KAREN. But right now things ALREADY COST MORE. Prices go up constantly. They're going to keep going up with or without the minimum wage being raised.

@lesliejosephs And send 3.7 million onto the unemployment rolls.

@lesliejosephs Buying VOTES is political gold but economically SHORT sighted. #📈📈📈

@lesliejosephs Out of poverty for what? A year or two later they’ll be back in it because of the rate of inflation.

@lesliejosephs @seytoven6 They don’t want that

@lesliejosephs At a bar up north Wisconsin. Bartender starts spouting off “6 months from now everyone that voted Biden is gonna regret it” and “$15/hr minimum wage is gonna make costs go up” Costs of living never really stopped going up, just the wages didn’t follow lol

@lesliejosephs Syke, $15/hr still is poverty 💀 But its way better than our federal current

@lesliejosephs A phased approach to a $15 minimum wage is certainly more sensible, giving the economy time to absorb the change.

@lesliejosephs And a Big Mac will cost $10, a gallon of milk $8, etc. When people are artificially gifted additional income (which isn’t based on their actual labor value) all the market is gonna do is raise prices to account for it.

@lesliejosephs When Walmart has to pay its employees more and has to pay more for the products it sells from other companies as they have to play their employees more how is the price of stuff not gonna go up making it all for not? This just makes everyone making $15-$16 an hour now low income

@lesliejosephs If the minimum wage is raised to $15 an hour.. do people honestly think the cost of living won’t raise as well?

@lesliejosephs Lets lift them out of poverty now!

@lesliejosephs Small Businesses are dying all across America cause of covid... to hit them with 15hr minimum wage would be like pulling the plug on the ventilator. Some people have no idea how economics work.

@lesliejosephs If you continue the quote to the next sentence, the same study says it will also make 1.3 million Americans newly unemployed. Those likely being from small businesses and rural areas.

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@lesliejosephs It will also decrease employment by approximately 13.5 million bc most businesses, especially a small business, won’t be able to afford this. They’ll hire fewer people.