That would be a good starting point in determining who are shills for the business community, and who is really a solid Democrat.

Boner will put it in a drawer.

employers from creating more jobs" into this piece.

Does a fish know it's wet?
K&R

The calamity they shriek about every time the minimum wage was raised never occurred. Interesting though, how the corporatists rue about the plight of the working class with this issue. They sneer and snicker at the same people when they have another round of corporate layoffs/offshoring; or sugar coat it as "creative destruction".

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In their limited understanding it makes sense, just as the endless and equally false comparison of the federal budget to a household budget gets them all riled up about a non-issue that barely effects them at all. So, one thinks that the solution is simply to educate them, but they will not be educated because they reject anything that counters their carefully constructed fantasy world.

I wish I could still hold out hope for us all, but I can't. Now, I am focused on the best way for the rest of us to simply survive what's happening and what's coming. For instance, I don't think Canada can hold all of us, but perhaps if we brought our own land with us...

There are many more Americans who would be impacted by an increase in minimum wage than business owners who would oppose this. The problem is that people making $8 an hour don't donate to political campaigns.
And of course, this opens a whole new can of worms. The slave labor making $11 an hour will want more too.