Vote ‘NO’ on the Minimum Wage Nov.7 - Ballot Proposition 202
There’s a lot of scientific evidence that higher minimum wage laws increase unemployment among unskilled workers, most of whom are teenagers living at home and spouses of better paid workers.
Why does anyone want to create more unemployment? This is a “feel good” law. People aren’t thinking about its actual effects.
The real reason this counterproductive, “feel good” law is pushed by labor unions is because union contracts have differential clauses, which say that higher seniority or pay grade workers must always have a specified differential of higher pay than those below. So, mandate a higher legal minimum wage and you trigger those provisions and give pay raises to legal workers.
This kind of law DOES NOT cause “inflation,” nor even a higher CPI. It causes a trade off between how a family budget is spent, paying a higher price for some services like fast food and buying less of other stuff to compensate, thus depressing prices over there. And, of course, no employer/producer can merely “pass along” the costs of production. Consumers reduce quantity demanded at higher prices, so employers have no choice except to reduce workforce when higher minimum wages are imposed.
But union leaders and “progressive” thinkers really don’t give a damn about weak and poor people anyway. We know that. Only Libertarians stand in the tradition that has lifted poor workers out of dung and early death, since the Industrial Revolution. The conservatives and socialists have fought against industrial progress and social innovation at every turn.
Vote ‘NO’ in Arizona on November 7th against Proposition 202.