More spurious labor economics from our friends at the Progressive Pulse (and Gubernatorial candidate Richard Moore apparently):
Earlier this week, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Moore called for a $1 per hour increase in the state’s minimum wage. That one move would boost the wages of 632,000 people or 16 percent of the state’s workforce.
And this proposed while recession threatens? Populism-cum-broken-windows-fallacy. Here’s my response.
-Max Borders
Only $1 an hour? What a cheapskate.
How about raising it by $10, $15 or even $50 an hour? That one move would “boost the wages” of millions of North Carolinians, not just 632,000. Right?
And they claim to care about the working and middle class.
What about removing child labor restrictions in order to increase the number of individuals eligible for this wage floor?