https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1359433096643371008
And yeah, $15 is still too low. 4 years is still too long. But there are still 18M people who make less than $10 an hour and increase the wealth of people at the poverty line by like $20B. Not gonna complain too much on this one.
Why do they always have to give it enough of a delay that if the government changes hands again (duh) it can get reversed or cancelled.
you know why
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Minimum wage increases don't really get reversed or cancelled, IIRC.
Republicans kick and scream and make lots of idle threats, but the wage is often so far below the prevailing natural price floor on labor that it doesn't matter.
You would need a fresh law to reverse it, which is true of any law. They could make the min wage $25 starting today and the next administration could make it $5.
The next President can't cancel it through executive order
This is true, but there's a difference between cancelling a scheduled increase and actually cutting real people's wages after they've really been raised.
Both would be politically toxic but the second one much more so. Honestly though, I don't think either is likely.
On the other hand, has the minimum wage ever gone down in the US before? Like Republicans are fighting it here because they know they won't be able to undo it if they ever take power.