minimum wage increase s. they did democrats no good. tom cotton who ran in arkansas came out not against the minimum wage because he understood the politics wasn t on his side. i understand that. it with wasn t just there. it was four states around the country where they put them on the ballot and they passed. minimum wage is popular. when you poll voters they send to say yes, whether or not they are actually going to register and vote. i don t think we have seen an example where democrats have used the minimum wage issue to get broader gains. the minimum wage is a fine thing but i don t think we have seen it affect behavior. part of the thing that strikes me and i have seen this critique by conservatives that the kind of core domestic policy plank which is tax cuts. good times and bad. le no matter what the malady is the prescription the tax cuts.
the kind of core domestic policy plank which is tax cuts. good times and bad. le no matter what the malady is the prescription the tax cuts. you have slow growth, tax cuts. high growth, tax cuts. small deficits, big deficits, tax cuts. that s taken from the re gan playbook. the gop failed to reckon that the economy now is very different than the economy reagan had. even when you poll people this tax burden isn t ranking up there in front of that. that s what the gop field has to offer. you start off with the early 2000s tax cuts. we had a different moment now of 30 years of wage stagnation and we are in a political movement with movement energy.