After winning in New York and California, the Democratic party should take the $15 per hour campaign to some red or at least purple state and start pushing. I recommend Missouri. We need to see protests every night on the KC and St. Louis news stations. The Democratic party should be at the head of the movement. National party leaders should show up week after week. The party should focus on developing local leadership and using the red state effort as a training ground for party operatives.
I know what you are going to say, it won’t work in a red state, but how do you know the state will stay red unless you are willing to try to change it.
Will help but any system which does not give ample opportunity for talent to displace unearned rank will, in the end, come to grief. In any system talent exists in previously despised populations (black/yellow races, poor/working class). Over and over again it has been shown that an ordinary sampling of the population, including those considered inferior or hopeless, contains men and women of rare intelligence, wit, and ability. Just as a pond turns over its water yearly, revitalizing the pond’s life, so a good stirring of the human pond brings new blood to the top, and we’re all better for it. Our system, our society is in the throws of allowing the pond to scum over by allowing all the benefits and wealth to accumulate with a very few at the top. It’s like crystallization, spreading and freezing through society, making brittle what had been fluid. A $15.00 minimum wage helps to thaw, in a minor way, the spreading and freezing of the system. Prudence says we will all be better off if more of the same occurs and is encouraged.
Good on the State of California…
…since Oregon started the trend by raising the minimum wage to $14.75 by 2022, in February.
Man I bet their economies will go through the roof and the businesses that have to pay their works a decently will see their profit margins grow along with it.
watch Colorado… to the tune of a quarter million new residents in one year, they are already reaping unexpected and immediate benefits from their new recreational pot laws.
If they get real smart real fast and turn that bounty into a $15 minimum wage to spread all that new wealth around sooner than later, you will see a new age of prosperity up and down the front range that will make the Colorado gold rush look like chump change.
The actual tax revenue numbers are well beyond projections, but the residual results have been simply staggering, particularly the influx of young families seeking a gentler place in a hard world, with a thriving economy and a choice of opportunities.
Hard to imagine Colorado won’t follow suit somehow, especially considering it is this very working class that is generating their newfound abundance. Give them back a bigger share of that commonwealth they generate, and it can only benefit everyone. Like JFK said, a rising tide lifts all boats, even the luxury yachts… and in this case, especially those luxury yachts.
The luxury yacht owners should be the first to embrace this construct.
…why do people worry over the ceiling when we are talking about raising the floor up out of the dirt? Take the desperate struggle out of the bottom of the equation and that will help raise the ceiling… or something like that. Just too much profane profit made by too few people off that struggle, especially medical issues. Take that trepidation out of the picture and what remains is even more levels of real opportunity that don’t depend on pain and suffering.
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Being a resident of MO, I think it would be a lot better if you were seeing protests every night from Cape Girardeau and St. Joseph than in STL or KC. Then you might see something actually happen. The rest of the state ignores what happens in the big cities.