Basically, Rs could support Manchin’s $11 min wage increase, force Biden to settle for it, take full co-credit for it/stand behjnd Biden at bill signing, and give their candidates something to run on in ‘22. But Ryanism rules. Had this discussion with @baseballcrank a week or so
What, precisely, do you consider the basis for a *uniform national* minimum wage? And consider that we, characteristically, allow states & localities to depart from it (many do), but only in one direction. Which is an admission of the utter impracticality of the concept.
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Right, wages are sticky, we don't do the Andrew Mellon thing anymore. But you ought to ask
@arindube your questions on the details. The "uniform" part is that we don't let five Southern states exercise their state's right to impoverish both white and non white working poor -
because they don't have their own minimum wage, but just follow federal law. So we boost that federal minimum wage--we create higher floors because otherwise states like that, still racially segmenting their workforces, will screw lots of people, including lots of GOP voters.
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