HIGH MINIMUM WAGE = REDUCES WELFARE TO WALMART AND STAPLES AND McDONALDS

Wealth of the Walton family of Wal-Mart = More than the bottom 40% of Americans.

RULE: Minimum Wage Benchmark = Productivity Growth

FACT: AMERICANS ARE TREATED LIKE SLAVES IN AMERICA = A STARVATION WAGE!

“Greed, in my view, is like a sickness. It is like an addiction. We know people who are on heroin. They can’t stop. They destroy their lives. They need more and more heroin. There are people who can’t stop smoking. They have problems with nicotine. They get addicted to cigarettes. It costs them their health. People have problems with food. We all have our share of addictions. But I would hope that these people who are worth hundreds of millions of dollars will look around them and say: There is something more important in life than the richest people becoming richer when we have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world. Maybe they will understand that they are Americans, part of a great nation which is in trouble today. Maybe they have to go back to the Bible, whatever they believe in, and understand there is virtue in sharing, in reaching out; that you can’t get it all.”

— Sen. Sanders

“Having more, having more, having more… It leads you to idolatry, it destroys your relationship with others. It’s not money, but the attitude, what we call greed. Then too this greed makes you sick, because it makes you think of everything in terms of money. It destroys you, it makes you sick. And in the end — this is the most important thing — greed is an instrument of idolatry…”

— Pope Francis called greed “an instrument of idolatry”

“It was natural and perhaps human that the PRlVlLEDGED PRlNCES of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for POWER, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property. And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.”

— President FDR – Speech to the Democratic National Convention (1936)

GOP LIE = RAISING MINIMUM WAGE KILLS JOBS

FACT = RAISING MINIMUM WAGE BOASTS ENTIRE ECONOMY STUDY FINDS BECAUSE THEY SPEND ON SURVIVAL = TRICKLE UP WORKS AND TRICKLE DOWN FAILED MISSERABLY! Source: Economic Policy Institute