"We need to leave it to the private sector. I think state minimum wages are fine. The federal government shouldn't be doing this. The federal government doing this will make it harder and harder for the first rung of the ladder to be reached, particularly for young people, particularly for people with less education."
To paraphrase Ann Richard's great line: Poor Jeb. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
Listen up, Jeb, and learn something. The federal minimum wage serves as the national baseline. Some states have higher minimums, some don't, but the federal minimum is the minimum minimum. Corporate America would pay 12 cents an hour if we let them. And if you removed the federal minimum, some goofy states would be happy to let them. Oh, and just as an operational concept, the first rung of a ladder is the lowest.
The idea that there are gajillions of unfilled first-rung jobs lurking out there, but businesses just can't hire the necessary workers because wages are not low enough is uniquely Republican thinking and a complete crock of shit.
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