The ‘Fight for $15’ and Perils of Federal Minimum Wage Hikes
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“Good intentions don’t change the fact that, if successful, the Fight for $15’s biggest casualty would be the marginalized workers its champions are supposed to care about.”
Brad fights against the growing push for a $15 federal minimum wage, arguing it’s rife with unintended consequences, run against basic economics, and that one-size-fits-all policy doesn’t suit all 50 states.
Writing on the $15 federal minimum wage’s economic impacts:
New Research Debunks Claim that $15 Minimum Wage Wouldn’t Cause Unemployment
$15 Minimum Wage Would Spell ‘Death Knell’ for Small Businesses
Minimum Wage Hikes Are Kicking in Across the Country at the Worst Possible Time
Publications on the unintended consequences of minimum wage hikes:
Why does this all matter?
If free-market voices don’t push back on progressive minimum wage proposals, millions of jobs will be eliminated and the entire economy will suffer. We must make the affirmative case against minimum wage hikes and show how they actually hurt the working class and marginalized people they’re supposed to help.
The Failed Big Government COVID-19 ‘Stimulus Response’
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“The government cannot create wealth out of thin air. Whatever benefits do come from this stimulus effort will mean either higher taxes or skyrocketing debt that future generations will have to pay off. The stimulus failures to date all offer yet another reminder that when we rely on Big Government solutions, incompetence, inefficiency, and waste are all baked into the cake.”
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brad has covered the sweeping Big Government economic response and its many shortcomings.
On the $2.2 trillion+ CARES ACT passed in March:
Why the IRS sent millions of ‘stimulus’ checks to dead people and random European citizens
How prisoners gamed California’s expanded unemployment system and ripped off $2 billion in fraud
‘It’s easy money’: Nigerian scammer laughs off stimulus fraud in bombshell interview
More lost to unemployment fraud under COVID expansion than paid in an entire normal year
How fraud and inefficiency corrupted the Paycheck Protection Program
Second round of COVID relief efforts:
The many glaring problems with the second $900 billion+ stimulus package, explained
The 3 gaping flaws plaguing the bipartisan proposal for $2,000 ‘stimulus’ checks
Biden’s COVID legislation:
Why does this all matter?
The COVID-19 pandemic will eventually subside. But the enormous levels of government spending and state economic control that Americans have accepted during this crisis will remain — unless we fight to preserve the system of free-market capitalism that has made America so prosperous throughout our nation’s history.
How Big Government Broke Higher Education
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“Democrats will never accomplish anything meaningful for the people adversely impacted by sky-high tuition rates and student loan debt until they reexamine the root cause of the problem they’re trying to address. In the meantime, their proposals would just worsen the inequality they’re supposed to be fighting against.”
From Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Senator Bernie Sanders to President-Elect Joe Biden, a huge coalition is pushing for student debt “cancelation” and other Big Government “solutions” to the rising problem of higher education affordability.
But failed government interventions created this problem in the first place, and the progressive “solutions” on offer aren’t solutions at all.