Ball State Deac
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I think Andrew Johnson didn’t run either.
Umm they are already on the hook for the entire minimum. That's always been the law. If it wasn't, why wouldn't every business pay their employees $2.15 and ask for tips?
Comparing an owner of a business and what they make “an hour” and the wage they pay their employees is nonsensical. Your mom’s true pay includes her equity in the business.
comparing her to a slave owner, accusing her of running a predatory business model, and call her the investor class are more nonsensical
Brasky speaks very boldly about small business owners and the economics of small businesses for a W-2 Employee paid by Taxpayers.
I’m not an Econ guy but isn’t the theory that raising wages on the bottom end of the economy stimulates local economy more than it harms it? That if people can afford to live and pay bills and take care of their family they spend money on local businesses?
And hasn’t it been demonstrated that the quality and productivity of labor making a living wage improves when economic anxiety is alleviated?
And that if we raise the 140 million people living in poverty in America out of poverty and into a tax paying, less crime committing, less reliant on welfare state, receiving better health care, sending fewer children into poverty that we may eventually see the rising tide lift all boats?
Or are we still just waiting for the money to trickle down from the Bush/Obama/Trump tax cuts?
I’m not an Econ guy but isn’t the theory that raising wages on the bottom end of the economy stimulates local economy more than it harms it? That if people can afford to live and pay bills and take care of their family they spend money on local businesses?
And hasn’t it been demonstrated that the quality and productivity of labor making a living wage improves when economic anxiety is alleviated?
And that if we raise the 140 million people living in poverty in America out of poverty and into a tax paying, less crime committing, less reliant on welfare state, receiving better health care, sending fewer children into poverty that we may eventually see the rising tide lift all boats?
Or are we still just waiting for the money to trickle down from the Bush/Obama/Trump tax cuts?
This post sucks.
Brasky speaks boldly because that’s his style and personality (for better and for worse). It has nothing to do with where he draws his paychecks.
Any business that pays 2021 Americans $7.15/hr for labor is either predatory or very poorly run. This woman needs to adapt her model so that she doesn’t have to treat her employees like trash.
The investor class comment was in reference to the macroeconomics of the situation. I’m sure there will be some small business casualties, as some owners will not want to adapt, but the vast majority of discomfort from a $15 MW will be felt by the investor class. We love to glorify small businesses in this country, but they are a minuscule part of our economy. That being said I’m all for some sort of small business transitionary tax relief, but the $15 MW has to be universal.
The slave owner comment was hyperbole, but also an observation that the landed aristocracy is still using racism and bigotry to co-opt poor whites into rejecting social and political reforms that would actually help them. A line of political coercion that can be traced all the way back to Jamestown.
Small business owners will have to adjust in the short term, but in the long term people having more cash in their pocket can only benefit them.
He called a restaurant owner a slaveholder. But, sure, I’m the asshole.
I’m also a W-2 employee and my wife is a W-2 employee that gets paid by taxpayers.
all of those comments were unfair shots at someone sharing his mother's specific situation; I don't understand claiming to have empathy for people and then calling her a slaveowner
I definitely agree that the national minimum wage is too low at its current level. I don't agree that $15 is the right amount in rural SC, or WV. $15 is definitely too low to provide anything approaching a living wage in the Silicon Valley. And in my opinion, there should be room for reasoned debate on the right level without invoking slavery.