In politics, there is always some doofus trying to sneak stuff in unrelated bills -- the Democrats tried to insert $15 minimum wage into the COVID relief.
"But Biden is unlikely to fight for it here, opting for a little down the road where it stands a better chance (Washington Examiner)."
From David Harsanyi: "A minimum-wage hike quenches the populist appetite of many voters. After all, it seemingly costs them nothing to compel greedy big business CEOs to pay the proletariat fairer wages.
"The problem is that a minimum wage is a tax on goods and services, and it’s not the big businesses that suffer, but small ones who can’t afford it.
"Nor are minimum-wage workers a static group of poor Americans. In fact, 58 percent of them are young workers.
"Minimum-wage policy marginally improves the lives of Americans working their way up the ladder, and in the meantime destroys millions of entry-level jobs.
"Even the CBO says that while a $15 minimum wage would lift 900,000 out of poverty, it would eliminate 1.4 million jobs (National Review)."
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"The idled workers [because their labor is overpriced by the new minimum wage] would be disproportionately younger and less educated, and CBO projects that half of them would drop out of the labor force.
"Prices would also rise for goods and services that rely on entry-level labor, “such as food prepared in restaurants.”
"The federal budget deficit through 2031 would increase $54 billion, CBO says, as the government spent more on unemployment benefits and health-care programs (WSJ)."
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