{"id":35199,"date":"2019-01-15T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35199"},"modified":"2019-01-15T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:00:58","slug":"if-you-give-a-mouse-a-cookie-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35199","title":{"rendered":"If You Give A Mouse A Cookie…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think “If you give a mouse a cookie…” is going to be my motto for 2019. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie<\/span> is a children’s book written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond. The book was published in 2015 and contains more wisdom than most adult books. The basic premise is that if you give a mouse a cookie he will want milk to go with it. Then he will want a chair to sit in and a table to sit at. You get the picture. Well, on January 11th, The Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a> posted an article that beautifully illustrates the message of the book.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Fight for $15 isn\u2019t living up to its promise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For years, liberals have claimed<\/a> that the minimum wage needs to increase to $15 an hour to provide a living wage for full-time workers<\/a>. The stated goal, as socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders writes<\/a> on his website, is straightforward, \u201cWe must ensure that no full-time worker lives in poverty.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In one way, the campaign has been remarkably successful. California and New York are phasing in<\/a> a statewide $15 an hour minimum wage. Numerous cities, including Seattle, Minneapolis and Washington D.C., have passed<\/a> $15 an hour minimum wage laws as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But as sure as the sun comes up in the morning, progressives are now demanding more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c$15 an hour: A higher wage, but hardly a living,\u201d a CBS News headline from October reads<\/a>. After bemoaning the inadequacy of the $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage, the CBS story asserts that \u201ceven at $15 an hour, life doesn\u2019t get a whole lot easier.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe arrival of a $15 hourly minimum wage cannot be considered the end of something,\u201d New York Times columnist Ginia Bellafante wrote last week<\/a>. Her suggestion? A $33 an hour minimum wage for the Big Apple.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ah, the wonders of progressive economics. Just pass a law mandating that everybody must make at least $68,000 a year \u2014 with full medical benefits, vacation time and family leave allowances, of course. But why stop there? Why with a stroke of the pen, we could all be millionaires!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The argument for a higher minimum wage is that in some cities housing is very expensive. Might this be an argument for the free market? If housing is too expensive and people cannot easily afford to live there, don’t they move to places they can afford? If people can’t afford housing in a city, doesn’t the availability of housing increase and put downward pressure on the price?\u00a0 It seems to me that is one of the reasons many states are losing rather than gaining population.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The minimum wage was never intended to provide a living wage. Most minimum wage workers aren\u2019t trying to make a living. A great many are earning supplemental income. Most are between 16 and 24 and work part-time<\/a>. Inexperienced workers don\u2019t produce that much value. It can still be profitable for the company to hire them \u2014 at a lower wage rate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This creates a win-win. Companies make money by hiring less expensive workers. The workers receive the experience and training that allows them to move up the career ladder. According to the Heritage Foundation<\/a>, two-thirds of minimum wage workers see their wages increase within a year of starting their job.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This normal career progression is short-circuited when politicians meddle in the marketplace and set unreasonable wage floors. As some leftists are now acknowledging, it\u2019s not even as beneficial as advertised for the workers who manage to find work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Raising the minimum wage isn\u2019t going to end poverty. But it can make it worse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the minimum wage ever increases to $50 an hour, I promise to come out of retirement!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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