Lowering pay for teen workers has the knock-on effect of lowering teen participation in the workforce (at least in Nebraska). I had a friend while I was living in Texas who actually took a summer job in Wisconsin at the prompting of his dad. While I was earning $10/hr doing bullshit retail work, he picked up $25/hr plus benefits at a unionized factory job just outside Madison.

Dems should play the long game. Run ads targeting teens, get them to vote at 18.

There are so many other effects it is clearly very dissimilar to a tax on small businesses. Mostly it puts money in the hands of consumers.

My associates in business is superior to Jared Storm's feeble grip on reality.

When he has no employees to work in his sweatshop I wonder what his complaint will be then? Probably the “This generation doesn’t want to work!” bS they always say.

Anybody ask him what a tarrif is for small business?

Small businesses are almost exclusively businesses that need a working class with disposable income. It doesn't help a steel mill or car company or RAM manufactures that much if the workers have $50 extra spending money, they work a massive market where the consumer demand is global and decoupled from their workers.

However, the restaranteur, arborist, florist, hairstylist, masseuse, carpenter and countless other small local businesses live of the worker's disposable income. When they vote to squeeze their few workers they vote to squeeze thousands of customers.

Corporations of course do not care about the local economy, hell for them it is just a nice bonus if it is a bit shit so they can exploit workers more with the looming threat of unemployment.

Squeezing the workers is pro-corporate policy and an attack on petit bourgeoisie.

No no, age discrimination is only disallowed if you're old and incompetent. If you're young you're just a dumb inexperienced kid who isn't worth paying a living wage to and just needs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Because old fucks make our laws age discrimination only applies towards those in their age group. Everyone else just gets to go fuck themselves.

Is it illegal? I worked a summer job as a 17 year old and everyone less than 18 got payed slightly less than anyone 18+. This was in Michigan.

And now they’ve made sure they will indeed be too broke to fight.

I think you’ve missed the obvious here that they do want teens working for immigrant rates and this is a step toward that.

Back in 2022 we voted to increase the minimum wage from $9 to $15 by going up $1.50 a year for four years. So the first of the year the minimum wage became $15 an hour. This law was passed by the Senate, so we did not vote on it.

Side note: The minomum wage for tipped employees is still only $2.13 an hour plus wage compensation

Yep