• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Sen. Jared Storm put it this way.

    “A minimum wage increase is essentially a tax on small businesses," he said.

    What a gaping asshole

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      12 hours ago

      Small businesses are almost exclusively businesses that need a working class with disposable income. It doesn’t help a steel mill or car company or RAM manufactures that much if the workers have $50 extra spending money, they work a massive market where the consumer demand is global and decoupled from their workers.

      However, the restaranteur, arborist, florist, hairstylist, masseuse, carpenter and countless other small local businesses live of the worker’s disposable income. When they vote to squeeze their few workers they vote to squeeze thousands of customers.

      Corporations of course do not care about the local economy, hell for them it is just a nice bonus if it is a bit shit so they can exploit workers more with the looming threat of unemployment.

      Squeezing the workers is pro-corporate policy and an attack on petit bourgeoisie.

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      2 days ago

      There are so many other effects it is clearly very dissimilar to a tax on small businesses. Mostly it puts money in the hands of consumers.

      My associates in business is superior to Jared Storm’s feeble grip on reality.

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      When he has no employees to work in his sweatshop I wonder what his complaint will be then? Probably the “This generation doesn’t want to work!” bS they always say.