@GovMLG Free child care and college you say? How does that work? Are the child care providers and college professors foregoing their salaries? Are the power and water companies not charging utilities? Amazing if true!
@diamond_rox_@KOB4 Why are you resorting to name calling? I havent insulted you at all, we're just discussing local minimum wage ordinances. I don't think the city council has the power to increase wages for the whole planet though so I don't really think you made a great argument here. Try again?
@diamond_rox_@KOB4 And a worker should decide what wage they are willing to accept. What a 16 year old living with their parents "needs to survive" is very different than what a father of 4 "needs to survive". The market can do all of this without job killing min wage hikes.
@diamond_rox_@KOB4 Not at all, the whole point is the government making arbitrary decisions about what is "enough to survive on." A 16 year old might be happy to make 12/hr 10 hours a week, but now that job doesn't exist because some bureaucrat decided it was immoral to pay anyone of any skill <15
@diamond_rox_@KOB4 A mandated min wage robs people of agency. If a job doesn't pay you "enough to survive" then dont go work there. If an employer can't find anyone to work for what they can afford to pay, no one takes the job. Easy. But a business owner should get to decide what a job is worth
@Carrionflower1@KOB4 I'm just a random guy on the internet, what am I supposed to have done about housing prices? It's not "billionaire slop" to see the flaws in standalone min wage increases, the opposite in fact. Billionaires will be fine, small businesses will suffer.
@KOB4 What even is that sign? It's "Domestic Terrorism" now just to keep homeless from being passed out on the sidewalks? Some days it's harder than others to even fathom the mind virus that makes people think this way. Not going to be happy until ABQ looks like LA or Portland.
@libsoftiktok Sadly, when she said "Let me be clear..." I thought she was going to say something human about how Lakan's death was a tragedy and never should have happened, but nope, just a double down. Ghouls gonna ghoul I guess!
@BasedMikeLee I mean, no? A right is something God gave you that the government can't take away. Importantly these rights would exist with or without a government's capacity to take them away, or with or without a government at all on a desert island. 1st and 3rd points well said though ๐
@SenatorLujan Either you are lying and gaslighting, OR you are too lazy to actually read the bill, OR you and your party are scared to lose the illegal immigrant vote. The large majority of New Mexicans demand secure elections! Pass the SAVE AMERICA act now!
@SenatorHeinrich Read your comments @SenatorHeinrich, New Mexicans want secure elections! Proof of citizenship is easy to do, and you only need to do it once then show ID thereafter. Stop the lies and give the voters what they demand, Pass the SAVE AMERICA act!!!