{"id":40926,"date":"2014-01-30T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/30\/youre-worth-what-youre-worth.html"},"modified":"2014-01-30T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:31:11","slug":"youre-worth-what-youre-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/30\/youre-worth-what-youre-worth.html","title":{"rendered":""You're Worth What You're Worth""},"content":{"rendered":"
Peter Schiff — millionaire, financial advisor, avowed libertarian — educates Samantha Bee on The Daily Show<\/i> about how the minimum wage destroys jobs and is against America's founding principles, because, after all, not all workers are created equal. And, besides, all those fast food wretches at McDonald's are all fun-loving teenagers, or else\u00a0mentally retarded. Or something like that. At least, there;s plenty of food for everyone in America, so who needs a higher minimum wage?\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Wage Against the Machine<\/a>
\n Samantha Bee explores the devastating economic effects of raising the minimum wage to the poverty level.\n <\/p>\n

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Peter Schiff — millionaire, financial advisor, avowed libertarian — educates Samantha Bee on The Daily Show about how the minimum wage destroys jobs and is against America's founding principles, because, after all, not all workers are created equal. And, besides, all those fast food wretches at McDonald's are all fun-loving teenagers, or else\u00a0mentally retarded. Or … Continue reading “"You're Worth What You're Worth"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132515,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/when-a-minimum-wage-increase-boosts-business.html","url_meta":{"origin":40926,"position":0},"title":"When a minimum wage increase boosts business","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Jan-17 2:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Most speculation about the impact of minimum wage increases is \"common sense\" style from businessfolk and some economists: if a business has to raise the wages of its employees, and is working under tight margins, then it either has to cut payroll, or raise prices -- which, in turn, hurts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132200,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/10\/because-theres-more-to-labor-law-than-minimum-wage.html","url_meta":{"origin":40926,"position":1},"title":"Because there's more to labor law than Minimum Wage","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Dec-16 10:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump's nominee for Secretary of Labor, Andrew Puzder, has had most of the critical focus on him as an opponent of increasing the minimum wage (though his opinions on it are a scosh more nuanced than that), but the Department of Labor does more than just make sure people get\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137970,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/the-minimum-wage-is-not-a-gift.html","url_meta":{"origin":40926,"position":2},"title":"The Minimum Wage is not a “gift”","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 26-Feb-19 11:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/18965459\/status\/1100456089844355072 Yes, Ivanka -- AND people want to get a livable wage for what they work. 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