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Thread: How is that $15/hour minimum wage working out Seattle?

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    I never supported going to 15
    That is retarded

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    so three, how does it feel to know burger flippers in Seattle make as much as you do........

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    Come on a history degree
    He must make $20 hr

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dude View Post
    Come on a history degree
    He must make $20 hr
    you should stay out of this argument till you finish your GED, stoner.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dude View Post
    Duh
    Seattle put in place a $15/hour minimum because they said people needed a living wage and wanted to earn their way. When those higher wages started causing a reduction in handouts, rather than being honorable and doing what we were told they would do, those pieces of shit asked for fewer hours so the handouts wouldn't be cut. So much for the Liberal claim that freeloaders like these DEMOCRATS want to earn their way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dude View Post
    Come on a history degree
    He must make $20 hr
    That's 12.75 more per hour than you make and 20 more per hour than you are worth with you self proclaimed, but unproven, degrees.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    That's 12.75 more per hour than you make and 20 more per hour than you are worth with you self proclaimed, but unproven, degrees.
    I'm not a dumbass party hack like you!
    Most of what democrats do is wrong
    They are only slightly less shitty than republicans

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dude View Post
    I'm not a dumbass party hack like you!
    what difference?......you can't vote anyway......no photo ID......

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dude View Post
    Gradual increases in the min wage have never done harm
    Just conservatard angst
    My problem with increasing the minimum wage is that those getting the increase aren't doing a damn thing more in the way of skills to get it. It's the only wage where one has to do nothing in order to get paid more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dude View Post
    I'm not a dumbass party hack like you!
    Most of what democrats do is wrong
    They are only slightly less shitty than republicans
    You're just a dumbass regardless of what you believe.

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    Dear JPP Reader:

    The problem with the $15 minimum wage is that it was not supported by a 100% flight tax. Oh, and corporations are free to set up shop wherever they want.

    IMT

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    Quote Originally Posted by IMT View Post
    Dear JPP Reader:

    The problem with the $15 minimum wage is that it was not supported by a 100% flight tax. Oh, and corporations are free to set up shop wherever they want.

    IMT
    The problem with the $15/hour minimum wage is that someone providing skills worth $2/hour is getting 7 1/2 times what they're worth and those not doing the paying of that wage think it's their place to dictate what money that isn't theirs should be spent.

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    Dear CFM:

    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    The problem with the $15/hour minimum wage is that someone providing skills worth $2/hour is getting 7 1/2 times what they're worth...
    That's very forthright!

    Of course as competing companies reduce laborers' pay to $2/day, it becomes necessary to slash wages yet again just to remain competitive. Two dollars an hour today, one dollar an hour tomorrow, then one dollar a day, and so forth.

    How does one build a first world economy on that basis? You don't! Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon rightly notes that the US has entered a stage of permanent economic stagnation, expanding social inequality and poverty.

    Moreover, there is absolutely nothing Paul Krugman can do to stop it!

    Marxists have long said that workers cannot be paid a living wage under Capitalism; but it isn't every day you meet Capitalist exponents who cede Marx' point. Again, thank-you for your forthrightness.

    IMT

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    Quote Originally Posted by IMT View Post
    Dear CFM:



    That's very forthright!

    Of course as competing companies reduce laborers' pay to $2/day, it becomes necessary to slash wages yet again just to remain competitive. Two dollars an hour today, one dollar an hour tomorrow, then one dollar a day, and so forth.

    How does one build a first world economy on that basis? You don't! Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon rightly notes that the US has entered a stage of permanent economic stagnation, expanding social inequality and poverty.

    Moreover, there is absolutely nothing Paul Krugman can do to stop it!

    Marxists have long said that workers cannot be paid a living wage under Capitalism; but it isn't every day you meet Capitalist exponents who cede Marx' point. Again, thank-you for your forthrightness.

    IMT
    It's called paying someone what their skills are worth. You talk about social inequality and poverty yet seem to be saying businesses/capitalism are the causes of it. If someone brings only low level skills to the table, that's not the fault of the one doing the paying, it's the fault of the one doing the bringing of the skills. If someone doesn't want to be poor, provide something worth paying for in the way of skills.

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