If conservatives truly cared whether the new jobs were low-wage jobs or not, they’d agree with raising the minimum wage, not eliminating it. The cartoon is certainly a bizarre counterfactual, though, since by the numbers Obama has had a better economy than even Saint Reagan. There is no economist outside of right-wing think tanks who thinks that the economy will do better under Trump than it will under Clinton.
If conservatives truly cared whether the new jobs were low-wage jobs or not, they’d agree with raising the minimum wage, not eliminating it. The cartoon is certainly a bizarre counterfactual, though, since by the numbers Obama has had a better economy than even Saint Reagan. There is no economist outside of right-wing think tanks who thinks that the economy will do better under Trump than it will under Clinton.