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NH Democrat John White – About those NH Bottom Feeders…

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Old news from the Fish Wrap that’s gained new life; Democrat State Senate Candidate John R. White calls low income residents bottom feeders.

If the Republicans were serious about job creation, they’d get serious about boosting the bottom feeders and stop worrying so much about the boys in the boardrooms.

Instead, they eliminated the state’s minimum wage, dropping the state wage floor to the federal level, a level at which no family can survive.

The state GOP is demanding an apology for the insult but I think they are missing the boat.   New Hampshire’s average hourly rate of pay, according to NH state employment Security data is $22.62/hour.   The lowest reported hourly rate is still above the Democrat parties arbitrary talking point.  And New Hampshire consistently ranks well on every metric of national prosperity, in the absence of the Democrats so-called, must have, state minimum wage.

That’s free Market driven prosperity without arbitrary government interference, thanks (according to NH Democrat John White) to Republicans.  Hello!  Republican Messaging Department!  Lighting strike!

While Democrats have done some damage in recent years, New Hampshire’s history of preferring a trimmed down un-intrusive state government has clearly done what no centrally planned fiasco of John White’s imagining could make possible. New Hampshire’s lack of a centrally planned, overreaching state government has produced a state that consistently has the fewest “bottom feeders” in the nation (lowest poverty rate), one of the highest average incomes in the country (which means very few “families” who actually live on a minimum wage), low crime (another sign of wide-spread upward economic mobility), consistently high health outcomes compared to other states (despite the taxes and lack of over-funded bureaucracies), all of which suggests that what Mr. White thinks we need is the kind of poverty, crime, and income disparities one only finds in states where Democrats like John White have been getting their way with little or no interference for decades.

We don’t have it, and we clearly do not need it.

As I noted above, the average hourly rate of pay in the Granite State is well over $20.00/hour.

The lowest reported occupational average rate is $10.78/hour.

So the Free Market driven rate of hourly compensation already exceeds the Democrat party hourly wage rhetoric by 0.68/cents per hour.

This is a rate that the effects less than 9% of the employed population in the state, a large portion of whom are traditionally working these occupations as entry level trainees to learn skills or as part timers who live with one or more employed parents or family members.

Some small portion of them will have these positions as a second job to earn extra money.

Many of those occupations include tipped employees who earn additional income which they are encouraged to report as income.  We know how that works so the $10.78 average is probably higher, doing further damage to the lefts dishonest wage rhetoric.

The two largest occupational groups in the state account for just under 30% of those employed and average $18.00/hour.  Another 20% earn between $20 and $30 dollars pr hour.  Yet another 20% of our state work force earn between $30 and $50.00/hour.

To your point John, regarding the federal minimum wage.   Almost no one in New Hampshire is getting that sum.  Those that are, get tips or likely live at home with working family members, or are the unskilled or under-skilled who might not find a  job or skills to grow into at any other rate of pay.

So the only thing your plan would do is make people who need the ranting and experience the most, unemployable. And last time I checked, it is much harder to survive being unemployable.

In classic Democrat fashion John, your so-called economic solution, to start with increasing the minimum wage, will do nothing in New Hampshire except–possibly–create more bottom feeders.

Nice job.

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