As they steal even more.

Are the American people stupid enough to fall for it?

Republicans are.

to suck up all the price increases due to the TRUMP TAX and pull themselves up by the bootstraps.

Thereby making it even more likely that the dollar is going to drop like a stone.

Minimum wage in 1968 at $1.60 an hour converts to $14.47 an hour now. Compare that to $7.25 as the current federal minimum. So workers at the bottom were worth twice as much back then. How about we triple minimum wage and this time let's not leave out overtime for farm workers. Then lets go for single payer healthcare. Do it right, make sure at the end of the year that what we have is better than anyone in Europe gets. If you balance the budget at the same time by taxing rich folk, profits, capitol gains, and bitcoins every time they are exchanged to real money or goods, then we can talk.

They'd make us a shit offer, but add in a $500 yearly payment for the life of the contract.

It worked beautifully. For the management.

Maddeningly, members would vote for this, even though the rest of the contract would cause them to give up far more than $500 a year in benefits.

Yet the rank and file would see that $500 "ratification bonus" and vote for it. It was like giving up food for a month in exchange for a piece of pie today.

It was disheartening to hear my fellow employees crowing about the great deal they got.

Now the Trump Administration is trying to sell us a shit deal, and to many voters, tacking on a one-time $2000 payment will be the persuader.

and those big retailers won't have much money to contribute to the campaigns of idiots who let Trump destroy the economy.

edited for typo; I REALLY need to get new glasses