There’s a large rally planned for Fargo-Moorhead on Monday, April 17 - a Tax Day Demonstration in support of a living wage. It’s only an hour, from 5 to 6 p.m. in front of the Post Office in downtown Fargo. There’s another demonstration in front of the Moorhead Post Office as well.
Of course, what these folks (its being put on by the North Dakota Progressive Coalition if I'm not mistaken) don't get is that raising the minimum wage (or mandating a "living wage") does nothing but make the price for goods go up. If they get their way and the minimum wage is raised all businesses will do is raise the prices of their goods/services to compensate for the new expense. Then, when everything is more expensive, these same doorknobs will be out again demanding another hike in wages.
And talk about bad timing. On the day when millions of Americans are busting their humps to get their pound of flesh into Uncle Sam to pay for more big-government spending (did you know that all of the wages the average American earns during the first 116 days of the year go to the government?), these people are going to be protesting in favor of more big-government regulation that will make everything cost more.
Brilliant.