Founder, Rakkasan Tea Company • Dallas Police Oversight Board • Former Obama guy • Once a soldier
Dallas, Texas
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Brandon Friedman
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Minimum wages have been far too low for decades. The national minimum wage is $15,000/year. No one can live on that. Anyone arguing against a raise is morally bereft.
When voters turn it down wholesale, you really gotta wonder about entire communities, cities, states and who your neighbors are.
Minimum wage debates reveal the moral backbone of a community. First of all, the average voter is not, and never will be, responsible for paying employees, much less setting wages. Most voters are workers, not business owners.
This is just voters telling poor people to shut up and die already.
Like it's very clear where Rep. Brandon Gill is getting his information and talking points when he casts the anti-Nazi hero as the villain.
Second, a minimum wage is the state doing businesses a favor.
"Hey business owner, we did the research for you and determined we need to raise the wage because it's the absolute bare minimum your employees can live on."
But businesses are like, "Noooooo, they can certainly get by with less!"
