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Yada yada yada! This has been the GOPs battle cry for decades in regards to minimum.

Way back in the 1970s McDonalds owner Ray Kroc called up his good pal Richard Nixon complaining about rumors that they were going to raise the minimum wage. Kroc told Nixon if it were raised, he would have to close stores and lay people off because he couldn't afford the hike.

The talk died down and it wasn't increased and Kroc promptly went out and paid something like $14M to buy the San Diego Padres baseball team the same guy who whined that the minimum wage being increased would force him to close his stores and lay people off. That's precious to me because he went from whining about he couldn't afford a minimum hike to shelling out $14M for a baseball team. People need to wake up and smell the coffee.

America's past and current brutal capitalistic system can be traced directly back to those slave plantations were it was born, bred and perfected.

Fast forward to the Civil War and the "end of slavery" and now these people who kept every cent they ever made (remember they weren't paying any taxes back then) were going to have to pay people to work for them when before during slavery they had people who worked for free so they weren't thrilled about the idea of having to pay someone now.

What did they do? They decided to keep wages as low as they could get away with paying and that's essentially the mindset of employers even today some 156 years after slavery ended so this crap Rand Paul is spewing has a long and storied history in America.

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