Not sure I buy that. If that were the case you'd see McCarthy or McConnell or their proxies leaning into this. Seems more like legislative entrepreneurship where pols with less collective interests sense opportunity.
I think you have to start with the recognition - which is really beyond dispute - that a *national* minimum wage is an awful idea in policy terms. Of course, you can make deals to turn awful policy into law, but you need to get something in return.
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But there are many qualification there—nobody wants to do it in the way you imagine it would happen—no liberal economists/policy experts. *Even Bernie doesn’t.* But if nationalism, per se, is the immovable obstacle—yeah, then you’re left with nothing. If you can get around that,
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McConnell runs to Joe Manchin’s office (somebody who *does* think a national minimum wage is fine, just a much smaller one than most Dems) and says, “Joe, you love bipartsanship—well, we the R senate caucus want to support your $11 min wage proposal. Splits Ds, R’s look like
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Just realizing reading this again what a strange phrase it is that it is “beyond dispute” what a bad idea a national minimum wage is. Do you realize that people with much deeper understanding of the literature than you have conpletely dispute that? That just your New Deal hate,
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tgat has nothing to do with anything but your dogma. Fine—we all have our priors. But this isn’t about job loss abd the rest—it’s that people want higher wages, this one way they can get them that public policy can provide—and that destroys your theories of the economy.
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