Welcome to the show, everybody. So there's this guy, Tom Steyer. I don't know if you've

heard of him. According to some reports, he's been running for president since December.

And he was having a campaign block party over the weekend, a campaign party that was attended

by some of his most high profile supporters like his mom and his cousin. And during this campaign

event, he announced, apparently, that he wants to raise minimum wage, just like every other

Democrat, but most Democrats want to raise it to 15. What he's saying is, forget about a measly

15 bucks an hour, I'm going to raise it to 22. He wants to raise the minimum wage to $22 an hour.

If you're keeping track at home, that works out to about 42 grand a year at a minimum. That's the

starting guaranteed minimum amount you can make for full-time work. Now, if you're a small business,

that can't afford to pay full-time employees that amount of money. Well, too bad.

I guess you don't get to have any full-time employees in that case. And if you can't have a

business without employees, well, then you don't get a business. Your business goes out of business.

And that's just the way it is. You see, we're going to make sure that everybody has a living wage

by shutting down businesses. We're going to make sure everyone has a living wage by making sure

that lots of people don't have any wage at all. It makes sense when you think about it.

Actually, when you think about it, it doesn't make sense. So don't think about it at all. That's the

key. Why am I talking about the campaign pledges of a man who will get fewer votes for the democratic

nomination than I will? Well, because his plan proves a point, not the point that he wants to make,

that if we had a real news media, which we don't, but if we did with real journalists,

all the Democratic candidates would be asked if they support Steyer's plan and if not,

why not? See, if they say, no, that's too much. I don't support that. Then they're admitting that

you can't just shout living wage and demand that employers pay a certain amount to to their employees.

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