Granite Status - Dem NH CD-1 Candidate Wants to Raise Min. Wage to $15/Hour - Granite Grok

Granite Status – Dem NH CD-1 Candidate Wants to Raise Min. Wage to $15/Hour

NH Dems vs Job CreatorsWill Carol Shea-Porter try to out bid him?

SHAWN O’CONNOR, a Democratic congressional candidate in the 1st District, plans to announce today that he supports increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2021, and indexing it to inflation. His proposal would give small businesses a tax credit equal to 50 percent of the increase in wages for their hourly, minimum wage workers. O’Connor has scheduled a news conference for 10 a.m. at the Radisson in Manchester.

Democrats want fewer jobs, plain and simple.

If you want more of something you don’t raise the price. If you want to begin getting 94 million people back in to the workforce you don’t make it too expensive to employ them. If you want employers to pay for job skills you can’t make it un-affordable for them to hire unskilled workers. You don’t force businesses to raise prices to pay for a $15.00 minimum wage. You don’t pile on costly regulations that bleed resources away from people, products, and services.

And for the record, seeing as this is a NH Democrat, explain how we’re going to pay for that tax credit? Won’t our most vulnerable roads and bridges (and the women, children, handicapped, elderly, the newly unemployed, and those on welfare traversing them) be ‘hit hardest’?

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