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Communist Raises Coming Jan 1st to Minimum Wage Earners · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Minimum wage workers in twenty two states are about to
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Speaker 1: get what I refer to is nothing more than a
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Speaker 1: communist raise on January the first.
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Speaker 2: Get ready.
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Speaker 1: It is going to mean the cost of goods and
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Speaker 1: services are going to go up. Why because Democrats have
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Speaker 1: demanded what they refer to as a living wage. Now
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Speaker 1: they're having success on this because there are so many
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Speaker 1: people that are saying, oh, I'm afraid of telling the
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Speaker 1: truth about minimum wage.
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Speaker 2: And the fact of the matter is you should.
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Speaker 1: Not be able to gather a living wage for some
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Speaker 1: jobs in this country. That's okay for you to say that,
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Speaker 1: and if you do say it, you shouldn't be ostracized
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Speaker 1: for it. But that's exactly what the left has now done.
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Speaker 1: That's why minimum wage workers in twenty two states are
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Speaker 1: going to see more money in their paycheck in the
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Speaker 1: new year. What does that mean? The cost of goods
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Speaker 1: and services will go up to cover the costs in
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Speaker 1: these twenty two states. Those increases, they say, will affect
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Speaker 1: nine point nine million workers. According to the Economic Policy Institute,
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Speaker 1: How much is it going to cost?
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Speaker 2: They estimate that those.
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Speaker 1: Bumped wages will add an additional seven billion in pay
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Speaker 1: which means it's going to cost you at least seven
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Speaker 1: billion more for the goods and services that are offered,
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Speaker 1: because you have to somehow pay for the seven billion
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Speaker 1: dollars in government.
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Speaker 2: Mandated pay checks.
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Speaker 1: Now, in addition to those twenty two states, there are
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Speaker 1: other places that are getting raises that are even more significant.
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Speaker 1: Thirty seven woke cities and counties will also increase their
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Speaker 1: minimum wage above the state minimums on January the first.
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Speaker 2: According to the Labor Department, twenty.
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Speaker 1: States will will maintain the federal minimum wage of seven
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Speaker 1: twenty five an hour, and according to EPI, of the
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Speaker 1: seventeen point six million workers earning less than fifteen dollars
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Speaker 1: an hour, nearly half live in those states that continue
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Speaker 1: to stick to the federal minimum wage, which has not
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Speaker 1: been changed since two thousand and nine. And the cost
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Speaker 1: of living, however, has skyrocketed. According to the Bureau of
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Speaker 1: Labor Statistics Customer Price Index or I should say the
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Speaker 1: Consumer Price Index, a dollar in twenty twenty three can
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Speaker 1: buy roughly seventy percent of what it could buy in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. It's pretty simple. The costs of
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Speaker 1: goods and services have skyrocketed. Now, let's be honest, when
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Speaker 1: was the last time you saw a job that was
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Speaker 1: being offered at seven twenty five an hour. The reality is,
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Speaker 1: in many of the states where minimum wage is still
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Speaker 1: going to be the federal minimum at seven to twenty
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Speaker 1: five an hour, you can't find anyone offering seven twenty
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Speaker 1: five an hour because you guessed it. There's a real
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Speaker 1: world reality to what's happening. As a business owner, I
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Speaker 1: can tell you the idea of paying people seven twenty
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Speaker 1: five an hour is a joke. You can't find anyone
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Speaker 1: to take a job at seven twenty five an hour.
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Speaker 1: So do we need a federal minimum wage or a
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Speaker 1: state minimum wage number that's higher than that to fix
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Speaker 1: the problem. Based on what I've seen as a business owner,
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Speaker 1: the enters know we would have no one come to
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Speaker 1: work if we were offering seven twenty five an hour.
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Speaker 1: No one can afford to work. It's seven twenty five
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Speaker 1: an hour.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: There are some entry level jobs, to be clear that
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Speaker 1: I think in part time work that can be lower.
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Speaker 1: But even then, when was the last time you saw
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Speaker 1: part time hours being offered at seven twenty five an hour.
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Speaker 1: I know kids now that are making twenty dollars an
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Speaker 1: hour babysitting the majority of jobs that I've seen right now,
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Speaker 1: and this is I would argue, is even entry because
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Speaker 1: you have to stay competitive, have been around fifteen dollars
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Speaker 1: an hour, which is double or more than double, if
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Speaker 1: we really want to get into it, more than double
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Speaker 1: the minimum wage. Now, over the past year, we've had
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Speaker 1: issues with inflation, the rising costs of virtually everything from
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Speaker 1: housing to interest rates to groceries that has forced many
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Speaker 1: Americans to deplete their savings and go deeper into debt.
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Speaker 1: These rises in minimum wage are going to make the
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Speaker 1: problem even worse. While the US economy is proving to
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Speaker 1: quote be robust in terms of retail sales, strong job numbers,
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Speaker 1: and a slowing rate of inflation, those who earned minimum
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Speaker 1: wage have had a harder time paying rent and buying
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Speaker 1: essential household goods, including groceries. According to the EPI Index,
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Speaker 1: nearly fifty eight percent of workers who will benefit from
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Speaker 1: the coming wage increase are women, nine percent are black,
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Speaker 1: and nearly thirty eight percent or Hispanic. Now, if you're obsessed,
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Speaker 1: okay with minimum wage, and you think that there's a
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Speaker 1: ton of these seven to twenty five jobs out there
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Speaker 1: which there are not, let me give you an example
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Speaker 1: of how things are different in reality. Okay, Target is
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Speaker 1: raising its minimum wage to as much as twenty four
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Speaker 1: dollars an hour, depending on where that target is located
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Speaker 1: in this country. The reason why Target is raising its
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Speaker 1: minimum wage to as much as twenty four dollars an
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Speaker 1: hour depending on where you live where the Target is
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Speaker 1: is because they realize that you have employees that will
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Speaker 1: actually even show up and then maybe do an average
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Speaker 1: job at best, it takes more than seven to twenty
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Speaker 1: five an hour an hour. Seven to twenty five is
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Speaker 1: not the real minimum wage in this country. I would
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Speaker 1: love to know, and I'm sure there's a way to
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Speaker 1: find this out if people actually cared about telling the truth,
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Speaker 1: I would, I really would. I would love to know
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Speaker 1: what the numbers show of how many people working, what
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Speaker 1: percentage of those working full time are making real minimum
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Speaker 1: wage of seven to twenty five an hour? If someone
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Speaker 1: could could give me that data, because I've been trying
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Speaker 1: to find it, I cannot find it. If you're on
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Speaker 1: a payroll and you're working a full time job, tell
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Speaker 1: me what seven twenty five an hour really looks like.
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Speaker 1: How many workers are showing up for seven twenty five
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Speaker 1: an hour for minimum wage? It doesn't exist. It just doesn't.
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Speaker 1: And people that act like it exists. You're in some significant,
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Speaker 1: meaningful way where there are hundreds of thousands of adults
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Speaker 1: who are waking up, and those adults that are waking
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Speaker 1: up or walking into work for seven twenty five an
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Speaker 1: hour and content, I would also are you have to
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Speaker 1: be really stupid if that's where you are, because there
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Speaker 1: are other jobs that are being posted that are twelve
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Speaker 1: ninety five, fifteen, eighteen, seven teen dollars fifteen dollars an hour.
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Speaker 1: Most people that I that I know are at least
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Speaker 1: and I'm talking about others that are that have basic
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Speaker 1: entry level jobs are about twelve dollars an hour now.
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Speaker 2: A year and a half ago, you could get.
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Speaker 1: In the nines and tens. That doesn't exist anymore because
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Speaker 1: biden inflation. That doesn't exist anymore because of Bidenomics, and
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Speaker 1: with Bidenomics and the rising prices than what's happened is
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Speaker 1: the rates have gone up, and it's very hard to
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Speaker 1: find workers now, not good workers, it's very hard to
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Speaker 1: find workers that will even show up. The number of
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Speaker 1: people that get hired now and the turnover is the
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Speaker 1: highest I've ever seen in my life like there used
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Speaker 1: to be shame, and there used to be like personal
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Speaker 1: responsibility in the workforce. And let's talk about the shame
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Speaker 1: for a second. If you got a job and you
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Speaker 1: didn't show up, you were shamed and it was about
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Speaker 1: your character.
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Speaker 2: Not anymore.
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Speaker 1: I know people that have showed up for one day
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Speaker 1: of work one day, and then after that one day
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Speaker 1: of work, they're like, I don't like this job.
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Speaker 2: I'm ound, and they just don't show up.
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Speaker 1: There used to be people that when they they would
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Speaker 1: they would actually give you, like genuinely give you two
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Speaker 1: weeks notice that they're quitting. The number of people that
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Speaker 1: just not only do they quit, they just they want
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Speaker 1: to stick it to their employer, that don't even show
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Speaker 1: up and give you the notice is has skyrocketed over
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Speaker 1: the last several years. I'm not you know, they don't
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Speaker 1: and they won't even quit. They literally just don't show up.
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Speaker 1: They're like I'm done, Like like they don't show up, folks,
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Speaker 1: go back to what I was saying a moment ago.
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Speaker 1: When these people get raises, these arbitrary raises that make
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Speaker 1: everybody feel better with Kumbaiism, and this is what saw.
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Speaker 1: This is what socialists and communists do. When you get
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Speaker 1: the raise, It's not like you have more buying power.
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Speaker 1: You've got to cover the seven billion dollars a new expense.
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Speaker 1: These rate wages that you think you're getting in a
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Speaker 1: bigger paycheck, they actually just disappear with the cost of
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Speaker 1: goods and services going up.
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Speaker 2: Over a quarter of those who will.
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Speaker 1: Benefit from the pay increase, they say, our parents to
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Speaker 1: the White House talking point, they say, which could make
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Speaker 1: a quote significant difference in their standards of living, given
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Speaker 1: that nearly twenty percent of the benefiting minimum wage workers
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Speaker 1: currently have incomes below the poverty line, they say. Most recently,
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Speaker 1: Senate Democrats introduced the Raise the Wage Act of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three in July. If passed, it would gradually increase
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Speaker 1: federal midium wage to seventeen dollars an hour by twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty eight. Now let's talk about these twenty three states
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Speaker 1: that are increasing their minimum wage, all right, January one,
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Speaker 1: and I'm just going to kind of go over what
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Speaker 1: they are so you understand. So Alaska, for example, their
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Speaker 1: minimum wage is going to jump to eleven dollars and
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Speaker 1: seventy three cents. They say that's an inflation adjustment, and
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Speaker 1: that's fine. It costs more to live in Alaska. But
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Speaker 1: I promise you go in Alaska. And I did this
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Speaker 1: before the show. I looked it up in the Anchorage.
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Speaker 1: There's no one advertising jobs at minimum wage. They're not
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Speaker 1: saying come take a minimum wage job.
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Speaker 2: Like that doesn't exist. If you want people to show up,
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Speaker 2: you're going to pay them more.
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Speaker 1: Arizona, for example, huge increase minimum wage in Arizona's going
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Speaker 1: to four feen thirty five. California is going to sixteen
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Speaker 1: dollars an hour, and look what it's doing to that state.
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Speaker 1: People are fleeing that state because the cost of living
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Speaker 1: is gone through the roof. So you may think you're
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Speaker 1: making more, but the cost of goods and services.
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Speaker 2: Let's just go to a basic math here. California.
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Speaker 1: Right now, gas prices when I was out there this
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Speaker 1: summer where we're about two dollars more.
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Speaker 2: A gallon than where I live.
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Speaker 1: So when I'm filling up a car if you've got
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Speaker 1: to let's just call it a twenty gallon tank, you're
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Speaker 1: paying forty dollars more to fill up that tank. So
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Speaker 1: you're sixteen dollars an hour just disappeared. You're still living
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Speaker 1: like paycheck to paycheck. The sixteen dollars doesn't matter. You
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Speaker 1: get turned to seventeen or eighteen. It's not going to
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Speaker 1: change people's lives because the cost to live out there
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Speaker 1: is so high.
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Speaker 2: Look at the cost of rent in California.
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Speaker 1: Are you better off living in a state like Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas? Right,
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Speaker 1: Georgia Missouri fly over country where the rent rates could
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Speaker 1: be as much as half compared to what is in
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Speaker 1: California Colorado, for example, where you can go smoke weed
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Speaker 1: and get paid more. Right, fourteen forty two an hour
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Speaker 1: is what they are jumping to.
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Speaker 2: They're going up massively.
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Speaker 1: Minimum wage was I mean fourteen forty two, Connecticut's going
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Speaker 1: to fifteen sixty nine. Delaware are going to thirteen twenty five,
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Speaker 1: Hawaii fourteen hours an hour, Illinois fourteen hour, Main fourteen
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Speaker 1: fifteen an hour.
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Speaker 2: This is virtue signaling.
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Speaker 1: Look at Maryland minimum wage is fifteen dollars an hour,
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Speaker 1: Michigan ten thirty three, Minnesota ten eighty five, Missouri is
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Speaker 1: going to twelve thirty, Montana ten thirty. Nebraska's twelve dollars.
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Speaker 1: New Jersey's going to fifteen thirteen an hour. New York
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Speaker 1: is fifteen New York City, Long Island sixteen an hour
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Speaker 1: minimum wage, oh Hi, Io ten forty five, Rhode Island
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Speaker 1: fourteen an hour, South Dakota eleven twenty, Vermont thirteen sixty seven,
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Speaker 1: Washington State sixteen twenty eight an hour. Now there's some
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Speaker 1: other states that have had increases. I'll give you example Florida.
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Speaker 1: Florida has a statementum wage of twelve bucks an hour.
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Speaker 1: Why did it go up because of a ballot measure?
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Speaker 1: And people say, all right, well, you know, I feel
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Speaker 1: better if we say we're going to make them, allow
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Speaker 1: them to make more money. Now, I don't believe in
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Speaker 1: a government minimum wage at all, federal government. If states
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Speaker 1: want to do it, that's a state's rights issue.
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Speaker 2: That's what that is. It is. It's a states rights issue.
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Speaker 2: And that's fine.
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Speaker 1: You can decide what you want to do in your state,
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Speaker 1: but the federal government I don't even believe should have
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Speaker 1: a minimum wage at all. The fair market should decide,
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Speaker 1: and the fair market has decided.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Like the.
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Speaker 1: Fair market has made it very clear, and the fair
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Speaker 1: market has decided. It is obvious that the fair market
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Speaker 1: has said seven twenty five is not a reality, and
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Speaker 1: it is not something that is probably ever going to
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Speaker 1: happen for ninety nine point nine percent of Americans. You're
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Speaker 1: going to get paid more than that. There are some
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Speaker 1: people that have jobs are seven twenty five an hour.
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Speaker 1: That's true, and that's fine, But how fast can you
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Speaker 1: get out of that job? And I could say, right now,
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Speaker 1: I could go out and probably get without even a resume,
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Speaker 1: just like writing down my name, my number, and a
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Speaker 1: couple of references. I could probably find twenty jobs that
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Speaker 1: I could get offered tomorrow at above fifteen dollars an hour.
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Speaker 1: I really don't think that's a crazy thing to say,
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Speaker 1: because I know the hiring right now, and I know how.
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Speaker 2: Bad it is.
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Speaker 1: And if you have a brain, and I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: you have to be like smart, I'm not say you
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Speaker 1: have to even have a high school degree.
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Speaker 2: Much so as a college degree. I don't think you
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Speaker 2: have to have a high school degree.
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Speaker 1: I don't think you have to have a college degree
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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, anymore to make fifteen eighteen
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Speaker 1: twenty bucks an hour. And that's the point that I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about. I want to get to your phone calls,
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Speaker 1: and I want to get your reaction to some of this.
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Speaker 1: The number five three five nine seven three two five
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Speaker 1: three five nine seven three two eight hundred number one
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Speaker 1: eight hundred four seven four nine seven three two.
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Speaker 2: Let me also just say this.
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Speaker 1: As I was talking about this, I was doing a
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Speaker 1: job search and I did a you can now like geo,
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Speaker 1: kind of like fence.
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Speaker 2: Where you want to look.
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Speaker 1: I just threw a map around where I grew up
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Speaker 1: and did a four mile radius, which I think is
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Speaker 1: a fair like radius to put around a high school
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Speaker 1: kid finding a job. I'm going back to high school
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Speaker 1: in my mind, and I'm looking at the jobs that
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Speaker 1: are available, and most people now will put up there
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Speaker 1: like darting salary. So I'm looking at four different jobs
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Speaker 1: right now for fast food workers that are eleven seventy five,
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Speaker 1: eleven fifty, and twelve fifteen. Starting those are the starting numbers.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at a job. Now, I'm looking at a job,
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Speaker 1: it says landscaping company. All right, I'm going to read
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Speaker 1: it for you. Looking for workers who will show up
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Speaker 1: for work. Need someone that has transportation starting at twenty
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Speaker 1: one dollars an hour. Twenty one bucks an hour, y'all,
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Speaker 1: twenty one dollars an hour. Here's another one, painters. This
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Speaker 1: looks like a home services company. Painting company eighteen seventy
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Speaker 1: five an hour, No experience necessary. Here's another one, says
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Speaker 1: phone dispatch operator, nineteen fifty an hour. I still have
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Speaker 1: not found a seven to twenty five an hour job.
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Speaker 2: I'm looking, I'm not finding it.
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Speaker 1: Let me just let you hear what the Amazon CEO
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Speaker 1: has to say, Jesse about federal minium wage. And again
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Speaker 1: this is virtue signaling from him when he said this
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Speaker 1: on CNBC. What are you seeing in terms of wages
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Speaker 1: at this point, in terms of wages going up?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, they certainly have gone up over the last
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Speaker 4: two years, and you know, some of which we did ourselves.
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Speaker 4: You know, we championed the fifteen dollar minimum wage, which
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Speaker 4: is more than double the federal minimum wage. Which it's
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Speaker 4: high time that that changed too, by the way, But.
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Speaker 2: What do you think it should become.
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Speaker 4: I don't know the exact number, but below seven dollars
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Speaker 4: and fifty cents to me feels very wrong, you know,
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Speaker 4: I think it should be closer to that fifteen dollars
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Speaker 4: minue wage that that you know, we started a few
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Speaker 4: years ago and then, yeah, our average starting salary now
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Speaker 4: is over eighteen dollars, and so wages have continued to
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Speaker 4: go up. You know, when you run a retail business
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Speaker 4: like we do. It's true for all retailers. They're relatively
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Speaker 4: low operating margin businesses. So this is really only so
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Speaker 4: far you can go and have an economic business that
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Speaker 4: makes sense. But we've continued to see wages go up,
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Speaker 4: and there's been a very significant acceleration in the last
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Speaker 4: two years. And I you know, it's hard to tell
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Speaker 4: how much more they'll go up. I don't think we'll
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Speaker 4: go backwards though.
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Speaker 1: In that they're paying more than minimum wage. So why
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Speaker 1: are we having this conversation?
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 1: You know, there's also been this virtue signaling and this
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Speaker 1: obsession with oh, you should tip people for everything to
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Speaker 1: subsidize them. Democrats that were you know, demanding will work
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Speaker 1: for fair wages.
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Speaker 2: Will vote for fair wages right in DC.
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Speaker 1: They said this earlier last year when they were having
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Speaker 1: this big debate, saying, well, you know, we need to
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Speaker 1: have tippers that are are people that are tipping need
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Speaker 1: to tip more, and those that don't tip, and jobs
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Speaker 1: that don't have a tip should be given the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to make more money by tipping. And then they blamed
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Speaker 1: it on white men. This is the Democratic Party in
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Speaker 1: front of the Capitol. Listen to Democratic Representative Levin.
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Speaker 3: All right, I'm Andy Levin from a neighboring district of
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Speaker 3: Congresswoman Lawrence's, and I'm just gonna say a few things.
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Speaker 3: Number One, let's be honest. If most tip workers look
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Speaker 3: like me, we wouldn't even be standing here. We wouldn't
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Speaker 3: be here at all. Tip workers are overwhelmingly women, and
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Speaker 3: disproportionately women of color. And it is time to get
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Speaker 3: rid of sub minimum wages full stop. Pay them fifteen
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Speaker 3: dollars an hour plus tips. All right. Secondly, look down
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Speaker 3: to that other end of the capitol, that far side
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Speaker 3: over here, Raja, Christiana Martin and Brenda Lawrence, said Jan
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Speaker 3: Chakowski and all my other congress people who are here,
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Speaker 3: and I we already passed the Raise the way Jack,
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Speaker 3: we did that a long time ago, that eliminates sub
21:20
Speaker 3: minimum wages. Let's eliminate the filibuster and do justice by
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Speaker 3: the American people by passing it in the Senate. All right, now,
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Speaker 3: one thing I haven't heard mentioned, Saru. You all have
21:34
Speaker 3: done some amazing research. I try to read it. In
21:39
Speaker 3: states that have eliminated sub minimum wages for tipped workers,
21:44
Speaker 3: restaurants have flourished, they've done better, they've grown. So it's
21:49
Speaker 3: time for us to do this as a nation. And
21:55
Speaker 3: you know, i gotta tell you, I I'm for the venues.
22:02
Speaker 3: I was so proud when the Magic Bag put my
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Speaker 3: name up there in Ferndale because I was fighting for
22:07
Speaker 3: the you know, comedy clubs and the and the music clubs.
22:10
Speaker 3: And I'm so proud that we passed funding for restaurants,
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Speaker 3: you know, earlier in the pandemic. And I'm a supporter
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Speaker 3: of the Restaurant Restoration Replenishment Act.
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Speaker 1: But you know what, by the way, I wanted you
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Speaker 1: to hear that last part because I just wanted you
22:25
Speaker 1: to hear his his argument there, right, Like, I'm proud
22:29
Speaker 1: and I'm a f in favor of subsidizing restaurants. I
22:33
Speaker 1: am in favor of subsidizing every worker. I'm in favor
22:36
Speaker 1: of the government writing checks right that remember during the pandemic.
22:41
Speaker 1: I'm in favor of all this. They want to give
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Speaker 1: away money, give away money, give away money that we
22:45
Speaker 1: don't have.
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Speaker 2: These are the.
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Speaker 1: Same people that are out there demanding that you give
22:52
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of money to Ukraine that's being embezzled.
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Speaker 2: And filled with like that.
23:02
Speaker 1: That's the truth. But they love this. They want to
23:05
Speaker 1: just give away money all the time. They want to
23:08
Speaker 1: give away, They want to give away money constantly. They
23:12
Speaker 1: don't work for the money. They want you to go
23:15
Speaker 1: and and somebody has to pay for this.
23:17
Speaker 2: We all know that.
23:19
Speaker 1: So when you raise them in own wage, he pays
23:21
Speaker 1: for it. People buying the goods and services. We went
23:26
Speaker 1: to a Mexican restaurant in the night and got kso
23:29
Speaker 1: okay kso. I have never cared what the cost of
23:33
Speaker 1: caso is in my life because it's always been a
23:37
Speaker 1: yes it was. The bill came and this isn't like
23:41
Speaker 1: some special high end Mexican restaurant. It was a normal
23:46
Speaker 1: Mexican restaurant. And the cost that keso was twenty dollars
23:51
Speaker 1: for a large caso. Now this large caso was not
23:53
Speaker 1: like some massive bowl of caso. It was like they
23:56
Speaker 1: had a small, which is a small little cup. They
23:59
Speaker 1: had a medium with they say is for is for
24:01
Speaker 1: about maybe two to three people, four possibly, and then
24:05
Speaker 1: they have a large, which is for six people or more.
24:08
Speaker 1: At our table, we had, I think there was eight
24:10
Speaker 1: of us. So we got the large bill comms and
24:13
Speaker 1: I'm like, good grief, what was so?
24:15
Speaker 3: Like?
24:16
Speaker 1: Why was this Mexican food so expensive? And I was
24:20
Speaker 1: actually expecting a bill that was not that big. And
24:25
Speaker 1: the reason why I say that is because as I
24:27
Speaker 1: was looking at the you know, I actually ordered for
24:29
Speaker 1: tea soup, so I was just not that hungry and
24:31
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm just gonna get soup. So I
24:33
Speaker 1: wasn't expecting it to be that big because of the
24:36
Speaker 1: like I'm basically cutting out a full price entree and
24:40
Speaker 1: I look at it, I'm like, you know, shocked at what.
24:43
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is it? What made this meal so expensive?
24:47
Speaker 1: Twenty dollars kso why was it so expensive? That's how
24:53
Speaker 1: much the costs of goods and services have gone up,
24:58
Speaker 1: and inflation on what it costs at a restaurant to
25:02
Speaker 1: purchase things.
25:05
Speaker 2: There are no more cheap meals out there.
25:08
Speaker 1: Wendy's, by the way, is my go to when it's
25:11
Speaker 1: like late, get off a flight kind of thing.
25:13
Speaker 2: It was twelve dollars eleven or twelve bucks.
25:16
Speaker 1: The other day I got off a flight and I
25:19
Speaker 1: got a Wendy's spicy chicken salach.
25:21
Speaker 2: They now charge you.
25:22
Speaker 1: I think it was like seventy five cents or a
25:23
Speaker 1: piece of cheese and didn't upsize or anything. Just spicy
25:27
Speaker 1: chicken saladch It's what I get, right, get the combo,
25:31
Speaker 1: and I'm like, it's now eleven dollars twelve bucks for
25:34
Speaker 1: me to get just for me. So a family four,
25:37
Speaker 1: if you all go, it's over forty dollars, like over
25:42
Speaker 1: forty bucks, really over forty dollars, Like seriously, that's where
25:45
Speaker 1: we are.
25:46
Speaker 2: Forty dollars forty.
25:49
Speaker 1: Bucks to go out there and to get basic things
25:54
Speaker 1: like a fast food meal. You go and you get
25:57
Speaker 1: basic food anywhere, and this is now where we are.
26:02
Speaker 1: So you raise this minimum wage, and you do this
26:05
Speaker 1: in virtue signaling. You do this in the name of Hey,
26:09
Speaker 1: everything's got to be perfect, and everything's got to have.
26:12
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's life should be perfect, and you must
26:15
Speaker 1: subsidize that person's life, because that's what they're telling you
26:19
Speaker 1: got to do.
26:19
Speaker 2: You've got to subsidize life.
26:23
Speaker 1: And this is about bringing those that are higher down
26:27
Speaker 1: and those that are lower up, so everyone's the same.
26:31
Speaker 1: You know where they have that Russia? You know where
26:34
Speaker 1: they have that China, You know where they have that Venezuela.
26:38
Speaker 1: You know where they have that Cuba. This woke ideology,
26:43
Speaker 1: which is demanding did everyone be the same?
26:47
Speaker 2: Is marked in communism. It's marked.
26:51
Speaker 1: It's a core value of socialism, it's a core value
26:55
Speaker 1: of Marxism. Now there's the elite, right, there's the elite
26:59
Speaker 1: in Russia, there's Russian oligarksters, Putin's friends. Right, if you're
27:02
Speaker 1: well connected and you're corrupt, you can make some serious cash.
27:06
Speaker 1: You can do that, but besides that, all the rest
27:08
Speaker 1: of you you have to be the same. And when
27:10
Speaker 1: everybody is the same, and that's what this is about, right,
27:13
Speaker 1: bring up the bottom end by mandating that you bring
27:16
Speaker 1: up the bottom end. Bring up the bottom end by
27:19
Speaker 1: forcing people to pay insane prices for basic things. And
27:25
Speaker 1: then you so you bring down the top. You bring
27:27
Speaker 1: up the other. Everybody becomes the same. In there, you
27:29
Speaker 1: are in a discussion. That is the blueprint for this
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