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Socialist Party: There Should be a $20 Minimum Wage, But Our Employees Should be Exempt
by Aurelius • October 20, 2014
In a story broken by Pundit Press, the Seattle Socialist Party is offering Web Developers employment at $13 an hour, despite pushing for a $20 minimum wage.
Now, in a follow up interview, the party insists that it should not be held to its own standards.
“We’re practicing what we’re preaching in terms of continuing to fight for the minimum wage,” Doug Barnes, the Freedom Socialist Party’s national secretary, told the Huffington Post. “But we can’t pay a lot more than $13.”
Apparently completely unaware of his own hypocrisy, Barnes added that he personally supports a $22 an hour minimum wage.
 Doug Barnes, from his Twitter Account
“The right-wing attack is very hypocritical,” Barnes continued. “These are the same people who fought against the minimum wage and support companies like Walmart.” Barnes is unaware, it seems, that conservatives who blasted the Socialist Party’s ad did not do so because they want a $20 minimum wage, but because the Socialists did, then wanted to pay their workers less.
Barnes ironically then complained that the Socialist Party could not afford to pay much more than $13 an hour. Again, he is apparently unaware that this is the same reason small businesses are against the law. |
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