Raising the minimum wage is a super-sized nothingburger to the “Fox & Friends” hosts.
While tearing into the House’s recently passed bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and criticizing Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for supporting a $20 minimum wage, co-host Brian Kilmeade ranted about how raising the minimum wage would “destroy small businesses” by encouraging people to make low-paying jobs into a career.
“If your one job doesn’t pay enough, guess what you do, you get another job. That’s what you do in your 20s,” Kilmeade said. “Having two jobs, part-time jobs, while going to school is something people have done since the turn of the last century.”
Co-host Ainsley Earhardt then piggybacked off of Kilmeade’s argument of how a minimum wage job such as waiting tables is “not meant to be a career” before going off on a tangent about tipping at places like McDonald’s — where employees do not earn tips.
“If you’re working at a McDonald’s or a small little restaurant where you’re making tips, you’re right,” Earhardt said. “If you’re nice to the people, you make a lot of money.”
Watch the “Fox & Friends” hosts take issue with raising the minimum wage below:
"Fox & Friends" host Ainsley Earhardt suggests workers at McDonald's earn tips. pic.twitter.com/K41vlQwAQq
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I wish I could live in that bubble.
Rainbows, Unicorns, working multiple jobs, 48 hour days, and living on a beach.
I’m so confused.
She takes the dumb blonde sterotype to a whole new level. I say this as a bottle blonde.
Now that she knows - does she care?
The stupid, it burns.
And yo Brian there was a time when working during the summer at a fulltime job, or working one part time job while in college helped a lot in paying for school. But numbskull what you fail to take into account is that wages haven’t kept up with costs,and that not everyone who works at McDonald’s is part time.
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