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Dem congressional candidate says $15 minimum wage is ‘antiquated’: ‘$30 is the floor’

April 25, 2022 | | Print Article

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Washington state congressional candidate and proud Democratic Socialists of America member, Rebecca Parson, is calling for a $30 an hour minimum wage because $15 an hour just isn’t enough for the working class and is an “antiquated demand.”

The gay activist and substitute teacher is running for a seat in Washington’s 6th District. That particular district has been a Democrat stronghold for 55 years. Derek Kilmer, the Democratic incumbent in the district whom Parson considers too conservative, was easily re-elected in 2016 with over 63 percent of the vote, according to Current Affairs.

The district reportedly has a radical history of labor organization. The area is still home to a substantial contingent of members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Parson is running on a pro-union platform that includes Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and a suite of other progressive proposals. She’s also a huge proponent of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s social policies and a homeless advocate.

“$15 minimum wage is an antiquated demand. It should be $30 per hour,” Parson tweeted, pushing her socialist narrative.

“1 adult supporting 1 kid needs $30 an hour across the country. Rural, urban, suburban: $30 is the floor. As you say your nightly prayers to Saint Elon while you fall asleep tonight, reflect on why you punch down on poor people instead of up at your heavenly billionaire,” she caustically sneered.

“Nobody should be poor in the richest country on Earth,” she added.

Parson got her membership card in the Democratic Socialists of America following the election of Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the House of Representatives.

She lost her bid in Washington’s nonpartisan primary election for the 6th Congressional District seat in 2020. Parson only won 13.5 percent of the vote that time around, which is approximately 35,631 votes.

Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) won the primary election with 47.3 percent of the vote, which was approximately 125,019 votes. He would later win the general election.

In an interview with Fox News, Parson stated that a $30 minimum wage was necessary because a $15 minimum wage “is no longer commensurate with real-world conditions.”

“I’m calling for a federal minimum wage of $30 because that’s the floor across the country for one working adult to be able to support one child. From rural to urban to suburban areas in the Northeast, South, Midwest, Southwest, West Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii, the federal minimum wage isn’t enough to support a family, and neither is $15 an hour. The Fight for $15 campaign started 10 years ago and the demand is no longer commensurate with real-world conditions,” Parson asserted.

Parson has a graduate degree in poetry from Johns Hopkins. She is the daughter of a U.S. foreign service officer, who was raised abroad and has a global socialist viewpoint. After college, she worked as a human rights observer in an indigenous community in Mexico alongside militants and spent time as a staffer at the International Association of Genocide Scholars. She also claims to be a practicing Catholic.

“There’s a difference between a jingoism with blind fealty and someone who truly cares. When right-wingers come and guard the flag with their guns — that’s the kind of empty jingoism that rings hollow to me. The flag is a symbol of ideals and principles,” she said, according to Religion News Service.

“Patriotism, on the other hand, is when you believe in protecting the Constitution and what it stands for. I believe the document and the context it was written in is deeply flawed, but I also believe deeply in the values it espouses. Everyone should be treated equally, and we should try to apply laws so that this value is increasingly upheld. That’s something that’s really important to me — and that can’t happen when our ideas of patriotism are empty of duty and honor. We need to reclaim those,” Parson asserted, espousing socialist talking points.

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22 thoughts on “Dem congressional candidate says $15 minimum wage is ‘antiquated’: ‘$30 is the floor’”

  1. It’s OBVIOUS that none of these liberidiots have EVER been in business and had to deal with complete IMBECILES like her! Some you just can’t train to do a simple job and aFter spending time and money to hire, drug test, TRY to train, and then FIRE you’re sick of libers!!

  2. Here’s what YOU DO!! YOU start a BUSINESS and HIRE PEOPLE and PAY THEM $30.00 PER HOUR!! The only entry level jobs I’ve heard oF lately like that would be to spend the weekend with Hunter Biden and BRING YOUR OWN CRACK!!

  3. And I bet she is complaining about Bidenflation. Her $30/hr would double that and destroy millions of jobs.

  4. Yep another demonrat idiot who only has half a brain. Just think $30 an hour to someone starting out in the military. Oh wait they probably don’t want the military to make that much

  6. This is a lot like that movie about the run away train with D. Washington as the star. Only thing is is that the train keeps gaining speed with no one in the Conductors seat. Pretty well sums up the Dem party.

  7. We are poor because of this illegally elected President and his cast of clowns! Are you going to pay for this, Parson? You are out of your ever-loving mind!

  8. This is the pure IGNORANCE of Democrats and the Left. They do not understand basic economics-that if unskilled workers are paid more than the market can bear-their jobs will be automated, done away with. and most small businesses will close up- further destroying the supply chain and goods and services.

    2. Lowes just installed computers to take the place of their cashiers. Kept two of them on to mind the comps.. The rest were laid off.

  10. More AI replacements coming. No one running a small grocery store or restaurant can afford such wages. I agree with Sixxfingers- put her money where her mouth is and try it. Anyone with a degree in poetry, and is paid as an activist, needs to just keep their mouths shut. And to think if everyone got paid at least $30 an hour to clean toilets, they wouldn’t be on taxpayer’s food stamps??

  11. Well dipspit,
    (and I mean that with all the respect you deserve) it seems like you’re putting a bug in everyone’s ear about needing more per hour so when you lose and have to return to starphucks, you can make enough to support all of your illegitimate chillins’? If you had a house, would you be okay with paying $120 a week to get your doormat sized yard mowed? Because they deserve all your money?
    $30 an hour to stock shelves? Your EPT tests would cost…seriously, I don’t want to confuse you with ‘old’ math so suffice it to say ‘things would become too expensive for you to afford. Just like now.

  12. Instead of talking about it, why doesn’t she set the example by starting a small business and pay all her employees $30 an hour? She needs to prove to everyone it can be done!

    She should also lobby all the democrat small business owners in her town and persuade them to bump all their employees up to $30. It should be an easy sell!

  13. Where does it end? $100 per hour to flip burgers? Can you imagine what a burger and fries would cost?

  14. I’m not privy to the profit margin on a McD burger as compared to an automobile or house, but common sense tells me you’d have to sell a lot more burgers and/or raise the price to gourmet category to support $30/hr wages. I don’t think fast food worker wages were ever expected to support raising a family. Other than the full time owner and manager positions, its meant to be your typical part time high school job.

  17. You do realize that inflated wages leads to….wait for it….INFLATION! You actual buying power is flat or going backwards.

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