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It’s all too common for people in politics to claim to speak for everyone, even when they just don’t. Take union bosses in the current fight over Right to Work: They act like all union members oppose Right to Work, but in reality that’s just not true.
This week I tried to stay away from the Covidishly-covidistic-covidianisms. That didn’t work out but most of them have nothing at all to do with covid, or masks, of vaccine passports or any of that. So, what are they?
Everyone around here is excited about our 2.8% unemployment rate. It might be the lowest in the country. It’s not all good news. Part of that great number has to do with people staying out of the workforce. If no one wanted to work, unemployment would be zero.
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is a heated contest with Vermont Governor Phil Scott for most Democrat-Republican governor. This has the odd effect of making left-leaning New Hampshire Governor Sununu look responsible, a goal to which Baker appears committed.
As a few lawmakers engaged in a publicity stunt last Saturday to press for a state-imposed $15 minimum wage, New Hampshire employers were raising wages and offering cash incentives in desperate efforts to attract workers.
Raising New Hampshire’s minimum wage to $15 an hour would cost the state nearly 6,000 jobs and more than 9,000 residents, raise consumer prices, reduce economic output, and cause serious harm to small businesses and the leisure and hospitality industries, a new report from New Hampshire Employment Security concludes.
Eugenicists and racists, mostly Democrats, crafted the original minimum wage idea to harm the same people that our modern-day Democrats now claim would benefit. Their ideological forebearers had it right, so are their 21st-century social re-engineers ignorant, stupid, or evil?
Remember when Amazon pulled out of Seattle in part because of the city was planning to target its largest employers with a ‘head tax’? Remember when Amazon scuttled its plans to open a center in New York City, because AOC and other progressives organized opposition to the move? Clearly this is a company that is …
Could this be a misunderstanding? On day one, doddering Joe Biden axed the Keystone Pipeline, ended thousands of union jobs. Warren Buffet’s trains will now move fossil fuels south from Canada’s Oil Sands to points in the US. At the same time, Washington is shepherding a pipeline project in Asia that will make the Taliban …
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Marty Walsh is Biden’s nominee for labor secretary. He is dismissing concerns about job losses. It doesn’t bother him at all becasue he knows they are the results of the president’s executive actions and because he has a job?
