Faith Based Minimum Wage

More people with more money to spend creates more economic activity. But enough of that reality based nonsense. Listen to the faith-based answer:

"When you raise the minimum wage, you price workers out of the market," said Senator John E. Sununu, a New Hampshire Republican. "That's the economic reality."

You need to have faith in this economic reality because Republicans have been saying it at least since they opposed raising the minimum wage to $1.25 in 1961, and they have always been wrong.

But to believe that providing a floor of seven bucks an hour instead of five for the people who do the shit work nobody else wants to do will ruin the economy requires a lot less faith than what is needed to give huge tax cuts to the extremely wealthy, believing it will benefit the economy even as it raises the deficit beyond the stratosphere, thus already impoverishing the grandchildren some of you youngins have faith you'll have.

Read it and weep: the Dark Lord Santorum leads the sanctimonius GOPers in maintaining virtual slavery.

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