Lou it isn't that the businesses want cheap labor, they have to have it to be competitive. They can't compete they can't stay in business. If they can't get employees cheap they outsource to stay competitive. If you passed mandatory 15 buck an hour pay the guys currently making 20 would demand an equal pay raise as the same with 30,50 and 50 an hour. Within a year or 2 that 15 bucks an hour wouldn't buy one more thing than 7.50 buys today. And bennies? That's what cause both GM and Chrysler to be bailed out. Total cost of a new car or truck, about 36% to current workers pay and compensations. Another 31% to retirees pay and bennies. If they could get out of paying that 31% they could reduce the price of a new vehicle by that 31% and still have the same profit margin.
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