Dem Rep. Khanna: ‘We Don’t Want’ Small
Businesses That Can’t Afford $15 Minimum
Wage
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Pam Key
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Posted By: Imright,
2/21/2021 11:42:59 AM
Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) declared Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that we should not want “low-wage businesses” when pressed on small businesses who would struggle under a federal mandate to pay employees $15 an hour.The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would cost 1.4 million Americans their jobs over the next four years.Anchor Abby Phillip said, “I know that you feel very strongly like many progressives about the minimum wage issue. Right now, at the same time, businesses, both large and small, are struggling in this pandemic economy, more than 9 million jobs have been lost in the last year,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
tsquare 2/21/2021 11:45:29 AM (No. 703812)
It is sooo much more productive to have low skill workers bored silly, feeling useless and alienated, than produvtively employed at entry level jobs while building their skills.
21 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Krause 2/21/2021 11:46:16 AM (No. 703813)
So, she wants a 16 year old kid who has never worked before, and with no marketable skills, to make $30,000 per year?
30 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/21/2021 11:48:05 AM (No. 703815)
We are your overlords. You will do what we say, no matter what that is. Your suffering is as nothing.
Now take your unnecessary shot and shut up.
23 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 2/21/2021 11:50:49 AM (No. 703820)
As always, the minimum wage is $0.00/hr. This is the wage some in Congress like Ro should get.
21 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Plex 2/21/2021 12:09:24 PM (No. 703832)
It isn't so much the loss of 1.4 million jobs, but the increase in prices (inflation) that would result. A manager making $16 an hour won't want to supervise $15 an hour workers. He will want $20. And up the line it goes. Union wages are tied to the minimum wage. All wages would go way up and all prices would go way up. Rents will go up because maintenance costs will go up. What good is making $30,000 a year do when the poverty level will simply rise to $30,000. Advocates of the $15 minimum wage seem to have as much economics knowledge as Mad Max.
35 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Avanti1 2/21/2021 12:13:28 PM (No. 703834)
How many jobs has Kahana created?
He says "If workers were actually getting paid for the value they were creating, it would be up to $23. 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. I think $15 is very reasonable in this country.”"
How does Kahana know the value workers create? Does the employer and customer not know better than Kahana?
Kahana should get some ski8n in the game by starting a small business and paying HIS employees from the revenue generated by his business. Put YOUR money where your mouth is.
23 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/21/2021 12:14:56 PM (No. 703835)
Spoken like someone who has never run a real business and has always been one of the political pigs feeding at the big public trough.
38 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 2/21/2021 12:14:57 PM (No. 703836)
This should be a campaign ad, showing the heartless and mean-spirited Democrats who don't care if you can't afford to pay a minimum of $30,000 per year to your most entry-level worker.
After all, they're likely more excited for the potential new unemployed person whom they can dole-out government aid, after all.
And, does anyone think this will not be a magnate for people storming across the border looking for such jobs? Many will be adults. Your 16 year-old will never get a job when they can hire a 23 year-old.
18 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
marbles 2/21/2021 12:18:48 PM (No. 703838)
Why no t?
2 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/21/2021 12:30:30 PM (No. 703848)
I navigate my way through my local store dodging somewhat under 20 kids filling curbside pickup baskets while glued to their smartphones. At 15 bucks an hour I really trust them to know the difference between Cauliflower and cabbage let alone pick a good one. Don't get me started on spinach and arugula.
20 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
rytwng 2/21/2021 12:41:50 PM (No. 703861)
Another useful idiot.That's what the Democrat Communist party is full of.
15 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Safari Man 2/21/2021 12:41:57 PM (No. 703862)
If we don't want low-wage businesses, what are all the illegal aliens gonna do?
22 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/21/2021 12:46:07 PM (No. 703864)
Kahanna is a very partisan leftist and liberal Democrat, and he was just pointing out that the Democrats could care less about small businesses, as the Democrats recognize that most of them are owned and operated generally by Republican or Trump supporters.
13 people like this.
He's 100% out-of-touch and tone-deaf, hardly an economic genius. Did he graduate from Boston University?
18 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Nimby 2/21/2021 1:00:20 PM (No. 703880)
We don’t want Congress critters who are against small businesses! Only Blue states can elect brain dead Democrats
12 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 2/21/2021 1:11:04 PM (No. 703902)
OK, they are TRYING to destroy a huge swath of small businesses.
And soon they will whine about "why are there no stores in our neighborhoods?"
Because of rampant shoplifting and too high wage scale. They are out of business.
16 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
valinva 2/21/2021 1:15:21 PM (No. 703910)
there should be no uniform Federally mandated minimum wage. The cost of living is not uniform throughout the country. The Federal Government and military pay is different in different parts of the country based the cost of living in that location. These Congress members are too stupid to understand this simple fact. This would be like mandating a maximum rent that can be charged for the entire country. How about we set the price of a pizza so it's the same everywhere?
14 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
bobn.t 2/21/2021 1:16:20 PM (No. 703912)
$15 would be way, highly overpaid for House and Senate members
17 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
bobn.t 2/21/2021 1:17:59 PM (No. 703914)
#2 - and can't even get a hamburger order (no pickles) correct.
11 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Jebediah 2/21/2021 1:28:48 PM (No. 703936)
And that explains so much about California and small business. And get the WE don't want.....who elected HIM God?
5 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Jebediah 2/21/2021 1:29:13 PM (No. 703937)
Oh---he is a her? So much for fame.
4 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/21/2021 1:32:26 PM (No. 703942)
Stupid idiots these people.
5 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 2/21/2021 1:42:32 PM (No. 703961)
What an idiot, and others like him in congress with the same ignorant level of mentality are quickly destroying our economy, along with the job market. Where does this fool think most jobs come from? It isn't the big corporations Khanna.
5 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 2/21/2021 1:45:23 PM (No. 703962)
Its the boat in the water analogy, everything will go up accordingly, these people are so stupid. They see the green deal messing up Texas and they just double down.
8 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/21/2021 1:46:25 PM (No. 703964)
So much for consumers deciding what they want. The communists intend on doing that.
8 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Safari Man 2/21/2021 1:46:48 PM (No. 703965)
Ruh Ro.
8 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
jasmine 2/21/2021 1:49:32 PM (No. 703966)
I read up a bit on Rep. Khanna, and learned he was "born on first base." By that, I mean that when his immigrant parents came to America, his father was already a Chemical Engineer, and added to his educational resume once in the United States.
Rep. Khanna was never in a position where he had to scrimp and save to attend college, support himself, or start a business. He was able to attend prestigious universities, and graduated with degrees in economics and law. I can't believe he didn't have enough common sense to avoid demeaning statements about small businesses that can't afford to pay the wages he thinks they should be able to pay in order to be worthy of existing.
Dems have decided America is a land of "racism." But Mr. Khanna and his family have been incredibly successful. His statement about not wanting small businesses unable to pay employees $15 per hour revealed his own prejudice. His own elite background is based upon CLASS, rather than color. That is a source of prejudice that allows elites to look down on everybody else? Why would that be OK with Rep. Khanna? A small business doesn't become worthless because it can't pay $15 an hour. He hasn't thought this through.
Americans might want to rethink the left's odious "race" narrative, and spend more time going after the elites when it comes to CLASS and poverty. The harm of elitism isn't confined to people of color. It dismisses people who are poor, regardless of color.
Donald Trump had the elites' number. He didn't look down on Americans. He looked down on the class conscious elites who remained wealthy, even when they were importing poverty and crime to America, and sending jobs to other countries. Race hysteria is designed to keep the focus on "racism" at a time when Democrats are ready to flood the US with poverty and job seekers. Once again, the elites are showing their contempt for Americans with their open border nonsense. The fact that new arrivals are first in line for the Covid19 vaccination, while Americans with cancer wait behind them, is no doubt a plus to the America last crowd.
16 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
paral04 2/21/2021 2:20:12 PM (No. 703997)
The democrat cabal, the party of the "Little Guy".
8 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
mean Gene 2/21/2021 2:22:04 PM (No. 703998)
So, at what point has the Dem party alienated all of its constituents?
11 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
DARling 2/21/2021 2:47:05 PM (No. 704007)
People who produce nothing seem to know exactly what others should do with their money.
15 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
RUReadyY3K 2/21/2021 4:12:33 PM (No. 704069)
$15 per hour is way to low. How can you raise 4 or 5 kids out of wedlock on only $15 an hour, when to 4 or 5 fathers won't stand up and do the right thing. We need to make it $50 an hour in order to make actually working a worthwhile endeavor.
6 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
grumpy3491 2/21/2021 5:15:02 PM (No. 704142)
It would seem that the old saying "A rising tide floats all boats" has been discarded by the woman. If burger flippers are making $15.00 an hour, what will plumbers, carpenters and electricians be making. Then there are those so highly skilled techies that run all this computer garbage. What will they be demanding for there highly "advanced" skills. Invest in companies that produce ink. The gov't will need lots of it to print all the money we'll need to function during inflation. Anyone remember Germany in the '30's?
2 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Italiano 2/21/2021 5:35:23 PM (No. 704159)
Yes, they are this stupid, and no, it is nothing new. Older posters remember back in the early 90's when Hillary the Horrible was trying to push through her idiotic health care plan. She was asked about the impact on small businesses. Her response: "I can't be responsible for every undercapitalized small business."
3 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
padiva 2/21/2021 7:34:28 PM (No. 704241)
It won't be long before milk is $10 a gallon.
It will be a higher price when the cows are unionized.
1 person likes this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/21/2021 11:00:17 PM (No. 704352)
Khanna has never been anything but a lawyer, a member of Obama’s administration and now a fairly new-lyelected Representative. What on earth would he know about business?
4 people like this.
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