Ro Khanna, a communist Democrat from Silicon Valley in California got a softball interview and CNN and was asked about the $15 minimum wage for burger flippers and other low skilled jobs. Khanna, who himself generally doesn’t come off as a nut, just a far left partisan actually responded to CNN that if business can’t pay $15 minimum, then “we don’t want” then. Ro Khanna’s actual comments were “We don’t want low-wage businesses”.
So either you pay burger flippers and hot dog vendors $15 per hour, or Ro Khanna and the communist Democrats don’t want you.
| Communist Democrat Ro Khanna: “we don’t want low-wage businesses” |
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Khanna said, “Well, they should be doing it by paying people low wages. We don’t want low-wage businesses. Most successful small businesses can pay a fair wage. If you look at the minimum wage, it increased with worker productivity until 1968, and that relationship was severed. If workers were actually getting paid for the value they were creating, it would be up to $23. I love small businesses, I’m all for it, but I don’t want small businesses that are underpaying employees. It’s fair for people to be making what they’re producing. I think $15 is very reasonable in this country.”