Minnesota GOP fights for the working man by... killing the $15 minimum wage?

Minnesota GOP fights for the working man by... killing the $15 minimum wage?

Tuesday, December 27, 2016 by Pete Kotz in News

Though Republicans' strong showing in the November elections can't be pinned to a single issue, one prevailing theme was the rural white man's thirsting support for the GOP.

Broke and left behind by the modern economy -- and perhaps a tad butt-hurt by the Democrats' fetish for identity politics -- white men in Minnesota's countryside went overwhelmingly Republican, allowing the GOP to capture both houses of the state legislature.

Now those same voters will be repaid for their support by... having their wages capped.

Minneapolis and St. Paul are both considering upping their minimum wages to $15 an hour. The idea is to help the poor better afford a basic standard of living. It also pumps more loot directly into the local economy – poor people can’t afford to save – instead of beaming it to a hedge fund manager who will park it in Panama.

But Rep. Pat Garofalo (R-Farmington) hopes to abort the idea before birth.

Garofalo wants to ban cities from raising minimums on their own, forcing any change to be made on a statewide basis.

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