From the UL reporting on the NH State Democrats trying to mandate state level minimum wage levels:
Sen. Donna Soucy, D-Manchester, argued the bill would increase purchasing power for lower-paid workers in New Hampshire and allow some people to forgo public assistance. Citing Walmart’s decision to increase its hourly wage for employees, she said it is good for businesses, not just workers. “It’s the right thing to do,” she said.
Scratching head – isn’t it the Democrats that are always touting how many people are on the public dole being helped by the State. At every turn, their hearts’ desire is to expand the service both in what it does for “the oppressed by society” and how many more people are declared to be “oppressed by society”. Yet, here she is, actually using the rubric that people would be able to get off said dole?
Or is she wanting to get the State out from underneath the cost? That would certainly be the “right thing to do” – especially if you want to put more govt muscle onto businesses with the end goal that businesses would merely be agents of the State. Constrain them enough and that’s what we’ll get. Mandating that they pay someone, regardless of their actual economic value and productivity, more than they are worth is certainly that – a downshifting of the State welfare more onto the private section.
Keep it up, and there’d be no private sector which, pretty much, is what all Progressives want as the end goal. They rail and whine about “corporations” making the decisions; internally, they are extremely jealous and envious that they AREN’T making all the decisions and that those horrid capitalists are.
So, they work to change that, by the stroke by stroke of every legislative pen within reach. Don’t doubt me.
