For all his boilerplate rhetoric last night about “growing jobs,” King Putz has a sure-fire way to kill a lot of jobs: raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour. Yep, that’ll do it. The burger flippers, the pizza makers, and the retail clerks will find their jobs going, going, gone.
I mean, if it was really so simple, by just waving a magic wand, why not raise them to $50 an hour? Probably because even the corrupt Democrats know what they’re doing and don’t want it to be any worse than it’s going to be. And it’s going to be bad, even if it does bring in more sucker votes for them in 2014, which is their motive.
UPDATE: It’s nice to see that Speaker Boehner has the guts to just say no.
“When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it,” the Ohio Republican said in a news conference today in Washington. “Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?”
No Democrat voters are likely to thank him for it, but he’s certainly doing the low-wage ones a favor.
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