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What Happens When the Tea Party Goes to Washington
http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/56384/what-happens-when-the-tea-party-goes-to-washingtonWhat Happens When the Tea Party Goes to Washington
by Thom Hartmann | June 13, 2014 - 10:37am
Dave Brat wants to bring libertarian economics to the US, and double-down on 34 miserable years of Reaganomics.
Yesterday, fresh off his primary upset of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Tea Partying Brat was interviewed by MSNBC's Chuck Todd.
Todd asked the Ayn Rand-inspired Koch Brothers-funded economics professor, "Where are you on the minimum wage? Do you believe in it, and would you raise it?"
After stumbling for a bit, Brat replied, "Minimum wage, no, I'm a free market guy. Our labor markets right now are already distorted from too many regulations. I think CATO estimates there's $2 trillion of regulatory problems and then throw Obamacare on top of that, the work hours is 30 hours a week. You can only hire 50 people. There's just distortion after distortion after distortion and we wonder why our labor markets are broken."