Divide and conquer the middle class on the minimum wage

[JonLP24]

3. How and what is your source?

I do believe the talks are real based on blind faith on an upcoming policy which features a Republican goody tied with a middle class proposal. The claim I'm interested in it is the Republicans coming up with this since Obama is famous for starting policy negotiations with goodies they want (Grand Bargain, for example). I do believe it is likely the Republicans came up with it since it is such a bad idea that it only looks to someone who doesn't understand what the results would look like. If this was Obama's idea, this would be among the most poorly thought out ones unless it is done for political reasons to run against the Republicans on (payroll tax cut is an example of this).

As to the proposal that is an easy no, don't vote for it or support it. Union busting lowers overall wages for labor more than increasing the minimum wage would counter it. Strong unions raise wages more than a minimum wage increase does. It does smell like a trick like this after previous negotiation moves by the President/House Democrats that they'd come up with one of their evil genius ideas. To me, it isn't even enough to entice me whatsoever but minimum wage laws are so popular people vote for them in over whelming majorities in Republican states so yeah, there is a lot of political landmines around this one but the right decision would be to reject it.