Dems Plan To Spend Week On Min Wage To Prove It Needs To Be Raised - But Forget One Important Thing
By Emily Hulsey

If you want to understand someone better, it helps to put yourself in their shoes. So a group of prominent Democrats' plan to spend a week living off of a minimum wage budget sounds, in theory, like a fine idea.

The initiative, sponsored by the Live the Wage campaign, is part of an effort to raise the federal minimum wage. Those who participate will be given a weekly budget of $77, which the group claims is the average budget for a minimum wage worker.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:


"To the members of Congress who draw a six-figure government salary and say $7.25 an hour is a livable wage, I say walk the walk," Woodhouse said in a statement announcing the campaign. "Live the wage before refusing to raise the wage. These tone deaf members might just change their tune if they had a little perspective."

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Woodhouse's invitation has been met with enthusiasm by Democrats supportive of the $10.10 wage proposed in the Senate. Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky took up the challenge in order to stand "in solidarity with hard-working families who are trying to make ends meet," according to the release.

Participants will likely finish with a big pat on the back and an increased desire to increase the minimum wage so that fewer Americans will have to experience what they did over the past week.



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However, they're completely missing one big, important piece of the puzzle: Forcing businesses to pay higher wages actually causes them to cut jobs and, therefore, is not in the best long-term interests of working Americans.

From Michael Saltsman, research director of the Employment Policies Institute:


"Instead of a substantive discussion about whether a higher minimum wage is the best way to reduce poverty, labor unions and the mind-boggling array of groups they fund have organized an election-year publicity stunt," he said.

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"More importantly, it ignores the conclusive findings from the Congressional Budget Office that any reductions in poverty from a $10.10 wage hike come at the expense of up to one million lost jobs."

These participants' time would better be used coming up with solutions that create jobs rather than kill them.


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Dems have somehow evolved into a higher form of idiocy. Live a week on minimum wage? What horseshit. I could easily live a week on minimum wage and probably do in most weeks. But I have a paid off house, paid off cars, paid off everything. Even if those frauds, don't have everything paid off, they aren't going to figure in their mortgages, car payment, credit card bills, etc.

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