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That's how I've framed raising the minimum wage to some hard right co workers.
Why should my tax dollars subsidize Walmart, McDonald's and these other companies that pay minimum wage knowing their workers will be on welfare? If your business has to pay a wage that has to be compensated by the government, it's a failing business.
That's the way! Using the same rhetorical pattern they are used to hearing, "they took our jobs!" and slightly modifying it to point to a different "evil", the corporations rather than the traditional scapegoats.