I just wonder why if over 80% of ceo's believe minimum wage should be raised, why do they just not give their employees a raise. This would mean the remaining 20% would have to also raise their wage to keep from losing employees.
Why does there need to be a law for it?
The fact is, in a survey those business owners feel one way and a different way when it comes to putting their money where their mouth is.
Just like everything, people can day they support higher taxes to pay for college, but in 15 years when they make a lot of money and actually have to pay the bill, their tone changes
This will not happen. The GOP Establishment will have zero influence in this convention.
http://towerofreason.blogspot.com/2016/04/myths-about-2016-gop-convention.html
We most certainly have. You omit the deeply flawed thesis of the memo by the man who sought to keep our democracy from regulating cancer-causing cigarettes long after it was known that they were killing countless Americans:
"[F]ew elements of American society today have as little influence in government as the American businessman, the corporation, or even the millions of corporate stockholders. If one doubts this, let him undertake the role of 'lobbyist' for the business point of view before Congressional committees. The same situation obtains in the legislative halls of most states and major cities. One does not exaggerate to say that, in terms of political influence with respect to the course of legislation and government action, the American business executive is truly the 'forgotten man.'"
That was an absurd claim then, and it's an exponentially more absurd claim today after the hundreds of millions invested to expand corporate power in our democracy by the likes of anarcho-capitalist Charles Koch and his cohorts. Koch actually said at the time that the Powell memo did not go far enough....
"But the basic concepts of balance, fairness and truth are difficult to resist, if properly presented to boards of trustees, by writing and speaking, and by appeals to alumni associations and groups.
This is a long road and not one for the fainthearted. But if pursued with integrity and conviction it could lead to a strengthening of both academic freedom on the campus and of the values which have made America the most productive of all societies."
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