I just got this from the NH GOP and decided to put it up because it demonstrates a Principle that I KNOW: Democrats want to put mandates on the rest of us but generally fail to have lived up to those mandates voluntarily themselves. Over and over again, with this behavior, they show that they don’t want to represent, they wish to RULE. Case in point – US Congressman Chris Pappas (D-NH):
Democrats’ Double Standards
Concord, NH – Last week, Congressman Chris Pappas and his House Democrat colleagues passed a job-killing $15-an-hour minimum wage bill (H.R. 582) while the Puritan Backroom, Congressman Pappas’ restaurant, has a job listing out this week with a starting wage of $12.50 an hour. NHGOP Chairman Stephen Stepanek released the following statement regarding the Democrats’ Double Standards:
“In a booming economy, Congressman Chris Pappas wants to do everything he can to destroy the New Hampshire Advantage by voting to raise the minimum wage. This demonstrates two things – first, Congressman Pappas is happy to force others to pay a higher minimum wage than he is currently paying his employees. Secondly, and more importantly, Puritan’s hiring practices show that in our booming economy, employers pay far more than what the Government mandates them to do. This is a practical lesson that we do not need the Government to raise the minimum wage – the market does that on its own.”
“Further, Congressman Pappas voted to eliminate the tipped wage exemption in the same bill, while staff at the Puritan utilize tips to make above-and-beyond the mandated minimum wage. When the cost of labor goes up without an equivalent increase in the market assessed value of skills, low-skilled and entry-level workers lose out. Democrats like Chris Pappas vote for legislation they know will not become law in order to virtue-signal to their leftist supporters that they are with them, while refusing to run their businesses as if their policies actually went into effect. The people of New Hampshire deserve to know the truth about Congressman Pappas’ and the Democrats’ Double Standards.”
I didn’t have the numbers before but I had guessed that this was true. So, is this an example, a real life example by an elite Democrat in his own business, of what the Democrats call “wage theft”? This is when owners of companies, according to the Democrats, don’t pay their employees what they should. So if Pappas is telling everyone else what to do with THEIR businesses (and artificially raising their labor costs), does he now have some Congressional exemption not to follow suit?
So why HASN’T Pappas “led the way” voluntarily? Or is he like the hypocritical “Patriotic Millionaire” (here and here) that want to have all millionaires pay more taxes. They say, similar to Pappas, that they’d be happy to pay higher taxes themselves but every time they are told that they could pay more NOW voluntarily, they refuses. It comes down to this: hey voluntarily want their taxes raised so that they can be forced to pay more involuntarily.
And, so it seems, does Pappas.
