"Here’s an honest question: Who do you think has been the cause of more deaths, Joe Manchin, or Ted Bundy?"
Honest question, in a country called the United STATES of America, why should we care what the federal government does as it pertains to citizen interests like the minimum wage?
Putting aside the merits of the minimum wage increase, ....why would the federal government deal with such issues when they have global warming, immigration, cybersecurity, China, wars in the middle east, etc?
Constitutionally speaking, the federal govt should not be dealing with the minimum wage. The fed government is not designed or set up well to deal with such issues (clearly proven by its previous failures on dealing with the issue) and just simply from a functionality standpoint it seems completely ineffective to have one centralized authority to deal with ALL of society's problems - that guarantees that nothing gets solved.
Honestly trying to figure out why people are so passionate about having the federal government deal with issues of poverty when its track record is so bad. Since the war on poverty in the 1960's, government has spent trillions of dollars on anti-poverty measures....honestly, they would have been more effective flying a jumbo jet over the country and just dump out trillions of dollars over the country.
The other point, is that why are you so passionate about the minimum wage rising when they clearly have had no effect or very minimum effect in states like Washington, Oregon, and California? Even with higher min wage laws, CA has the highest poverty rate of any state in the country when cost of living is factored in. Why all the excitement? Its not like people in suburbs and rural areas are flocking to SF to enjoy the higher min wage laws. If higher min wage laws only work with other policies to support the poor, that's even more reason to allow the states to experiment with different anti-poverty combinations....but for the love of god, not the federal government. It has enough on its plate.
"Here’s an honest question: Who do you think has been the cause of more deaths, Joe Manchin, or Ted Bundy?"
Honest question, in a country called the United STATES of America, why should we care what the federal government does as it pertains to citizen interests like the minimum wage?
Putting aside the merits of the minimum wage increase, ....why would the federal government deal with such issues when they have global warming, immigration, cybersecurity, China, wars in the middle east, etc?
Constitutionally speaking, the federal govt should not be dealing with the minimum wage. The fed government is not designed or set up well to deal with such issues (clearly proven by its previous failures on dealing with the issue) and just simply from a functionality standpoint it seems completely ineffective to have one centralized authority to deal with ALL of society's problems - that guarantees that nothing gets solved.
Honestly trying to figure out why people are so passionate about having the federal government deal with issues of poverty when its track record is so bad. Since the war on poverty in the 1960's, government has spent trillions of dollars on anti-poverty measures....honestly, they would have been more effective flying a jumbo jet over the country and just dump out trillions of dollars over the country.
The other point, is that why are you so passionate about the minimum wage rising when they clearly have had no effect or very minimum effect in states like Washington, Oregon, and California? Even with higher min wage laws, CA has the highest poverty rate of any state in the country when cost of living is factored in. Why all the excitement? Its not like people in suburbs and rural areas are flocking to SF to enjoy the higher min wage laws. If higher min wage laws only work with other policies to support the poor, that's even more reason to allow the states to experiment with different anti-poverty combinations....but for the love of god, not the federal government. It has enough on its plate.