to **any** minimum wage increase at all.
The burden is always on the person agitating to change federal law to show its great national importance.
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Raising the national wage floor—which, as they said will impact the entire wage scale, not just those receiving the minimum wage—is an incredibly easy argument to make in policy grounds! There is enormous wage inequality in the US—and cons like you presumably prefer boosting it
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from the bottom than redistributing from the top.or maybe you just don’t want to do anything on either end. Or unions either. Or really even tight labor markets via full economy. None of those, right? And no health care or child care. And you wonder why Ryanism isn’t popular.
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On one hand, you think this is so very important that advocates must bear a heavy burden. Otoh, you think it impacts hardly anybody/has barely any public policy impact at all. That is a perfect exemplar of Hirschman’s Rhetoric of Reaction combing the futility thesis and the
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jeopardy thesis. That is not coherent. And I’ll make it easy for you: yes it’s important, it’s not trivial. So you should abandon the futility thesis which has no empirical support for it in this instance. The smart GOP politics here remain, as I said, beyond your ken.
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