Anti-immigration Breitbart News opposes the raising of the minimum wage. Meanwhile, back in the Progressive Era...
From my review of "Illiberal Reformers":
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Sometimes, Progressive reform proposals were extremely ingenious, such as the demand for a minimum wage.
The Progressives conceded that a federal minimum wage would increase unemployment, but said that this was the *point* of such proposals! They were tailored to exclude unskilled workers from the workforce, most of such workers presumably being Black or recent immigrants.
Another ingenious proposal was to portray the minimum wage as a “tariff on foreign labor”, thereby directly connecting agitation for such a wage with opposition to open borders.
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Translation: Republicans want all workers to be White. They also want White workers to starve. Not clear who should eat the fast food, though...
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