Whether it is talk of raising the minimum wage or changing the overtime regulations the same group of people lose their shit and bemoan the big bad government interfering and how this is going to hurt the economy.
Well boo fucking hoo. We have a poverty problem already and the same people bitching are the same people who vilify and bitch about the poor. Do they bitch about the businesses who don’t pay living wages, hire full time, steal wages and make salary employees work enough hours that in some cases they make less than minimum wage? Why is that? Why do some people exalt these businesses and the way they treat people?
The bottom line is that we need to tackle the poverty problem as a nation and if the businesses will not voluntarily pay living wages the government is left with no choice but to take measures. And if that hurts their anti everything feelings maybe they should take a page from their own playbook and do like they keep telling the poor, go somewhere else.