A Democrat representative has finally admitted what conservatives have known all along: Democrats don’t care about small businesses.
The Democrat Party over the years has morphed into the party of big business and the elite. They pretend to fight for the little guy while shutting down small businesses and allowing major corporations to get richer with their authoritarian lockdowns.
Far-left Representative Ro Khanna, of California, was being interviewed by CNN when he actually told the truth for once.
In the interview, Khanna stated that he, and likely the rest of his party, “don’t want low-wage” small businesses to exist.
Discussing the proposed minimum wage increase to $15 per hour and the effects it may have on the country, Khanna was asked: “Well, of course, large businesses like Amazon and McDonald’s, for example, can and perhaps should pay more, but I’m wondering what is your plan for smaller businesses? How does this in your view affect mom and pop businesses who are just struggling to keep their doors open, keep workers on the payroll right now?”
“We don’t want low-wage businesses. I think most successful small businesses can pay a fair wage,” Khanna responded.
“If you look at the minimum wage it increased with worker productivity until 1968 and that relationship was severed. If workers were actually getting paid for the value they were creating it would be up to $23,” the Democrat representative claimed. “I love small businesses. I’m all for it. But I don’t want small businesses that are underpaying employees. It’s fair for people to be making what they’re producing and I think $15 is very reasonable in this country.”
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Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna on the 1.4 million jobs that the CBO predicts would be eliminated by raising the federal wage mandate: “we don't want" the small businesses that would be forced underpic.twitter.com/1gf07LbRLK
— Tommy Pigott (@TCPigott) February 21, 2021
Even left-wing outlet CNBC has reported on the fact that raising the minimum wage would hurt workers: “Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, as President Joe Biden has proposed, would cost 1.4 million jobs over the next four years while lifting 900,000 people out of poverty, according to a Congressional Budget Office report.”
These job losses would likely be due to two things. First, small businesses would either close, or be forced to reduce employee hours and cut jobs. Second, large businesses would likely replace minimum wage workers with technology, such as self-checkout machines in grocery stores, or order kiosks like McDonalds has begun to use.
Democrats never seem to understand economics, or maybe they just don’t care.
