By Maxford Nelson│Freedom Foundation
Newly-elected Socialist Seattle City Council Member
Kshama Sawant is better known for her incendiary rhetoric than her policy
acumen. Her recent comments at a minimum wage forum at Seattle Central
Community College exhibit either a lack of knowledge on the issue or a
startling deficiency of candor.
One attendee asked Sawant about the economic consequences
of increasing the minimum wage. In his comments, the gentleman noted that the
U.S. territory of American Samoa had recently experienced significant economic
damage after Congress mandated sharp increases in the territory’s minimum wage.
Sawant responded by claiming that the American Samoa
study “has been done by some organization called the Freedom Foundation, which
is a right-wing think-tank.” Her comments about the study’s validity were
unequivocal.
“As an economist and as an academician,” she explained,
“I feel strange calling it a ‘study’ because it’s a spurious analysis that has
no basis in reality… Even by the standards of right-wing analysis it’s not that
great.”…… “Just because we’re determined fighters for economic justice does not
mean that we cannot see through this haze that’s being created,” she concluded.
“We know the facts. We understand how the economy works.”
There’s only one-problem: the report was actually written by the
Obama Administration’s Government Accountability Office (GAO), not the
“right-wing” Freedom Foundation. While we have cited the study,
we are not its authors…… Enjoy the revolution, Seattle.…..To Read More….
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