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    1. Bill Scher‏Verified account @billscher Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @LPDonovan @baseballcrank

      I would think Republicans could get behind a deal with up-front small biz goodies, and slow phase-in for a min wage of around $11-12.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @billscher @LPDonovan @baseballcrank

      You would think, yes. But Dan doesn’t think that, NR, generally, doesn’t think that, AEI doesn’t that, Heritage doesn’t think that, the WSJ Ed board doesn’t think that. If you would prefer the minimum wage doesn’t exist at all, you can’t swallow the idea of increasing it.

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    3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher and

      Like Dan’s instructive here—and I pick on him to make a point about policy options in the party that Liam would recognize. He started by trying to trap me into the most ultra position—instant, national $15, which Bernie himself rejects. When I mentioned $11–which would have the

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    4. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher and

      strategic leveraging effect of splitting liberal centrists from social Dems—he *still can’t do it* because he’s a classical liberal who hates the New Deal. Ok—but just concede what dumb politics that is. I think about leverage all the time and I can say Ds prefer total opposition

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    5. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher and

      to **any** minimum wage increase at all.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher @LPDonovan

      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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    7. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @baseballcrank @billscher @LPDonovan

      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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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher @LPDonovan

      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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    9. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @baseballcrank @billscher @LPDonovan

      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

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    10. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank and

      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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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Feb 16
      Replying to @yeselson @billscher and

      We're talking here about 1.9% of the workforce, only half of whom are full-time workers & only half of whom are over 25. Your argument boils down to mistrust of a handful of state governments.

      8:43 PM - 16 Feb 2021
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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
          Replying to @baseballcrank @billscher and

          That "only half" is millions of workers and, indeed--part of the point, wages go up throughout the wage scale--why do you think (besides solidarity) union support a min wage increase? Unionized workers don't need it!

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        3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson Feb 16
          Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank and

          Moroever, you argument is kind of classically incoherent--if you're right that this involves a trivial number of workers, most of whom are not in their prime wage earning years--then why the vehement opposition? Why care so much? Why make your stand here?

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