Rep. Chris Jacobs is potentially and sadly right when he states concerning lowering the overtime threshold for farm workers:
... this is a devastating decision made by out-of-touch bureaucrats which will bankrupt family farms throughout our state and end farming as we know it. If Governor Hochul approves this recommendation, she is signing the death warrant for thousands of farms ...
Being right isn't the same thing as doing the right thing.
I'm old enough to remember when conservatives -- of course, this was back when the GOP was the conservative party -- believed in federalism, or the right of states to govern themselves with little interference from the federal government.
How Jacobs, who seems to think of himself as a conservative, wants to use the heavy hand of the federal government to overrule a state's right to govern itself.
As wrong as New York would be to lower the overtime threshold, it really is a state, not a federal issue.
Instead of increasing the power of the federal government, Jacobs should introduce legislation to strip the federal Department of Labor of its regulatory power, leaving that power to states, not the national government.
Federal legislation to strip a state of its power to govern itself is the tactic of progressives, not conservatives.
