Over the weekend, Presidential candidate Donald Trump paid a brief visit to a McDonalds here in Pa., handing out fries to preselected customers. Being surrounded by all that fast food must have put him in a good mood because he even wished Kamala Harris a Happy Birthday and said he wouldn't mind doing it again. But he ducked a question on whether he'd support an incrase in the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15.
Harris has called for an increase. ""The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, which means that the person who is working a full day and full weeks will make $15,000 a year, which is essentially poverty wages," she said at a campaign stop in Michigan.
Republicans and Trump want to brand themselves as standing up for the forgotten working class. But it is actually Republicans who have opposed attempted increases while Democrats trip over themselves searching for the right pronouns to use.
Isn't it time to raise the $7.25 minimum wage? It's been in place for 15 years.
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