Conservatives Warming Up to Minimum Wage Hikes; Leftists Cooling

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  1. Reiver

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    Based on what economic theory?
     
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    The one called economic reality.
     
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    So you can't construct an argument? You're consistent at least.
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I just have no desire to engage with you. Complete waste of time.
     
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    True. I'm sure you had a brilliant economic argument. I'm sure you were just itching to deliver it too! What a shame.
     
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    You don't have to go away mad.
     
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    I'm smiling dear chap. Get back to me when you can compose an argument. Oooo, I'll be all a worried
     
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    Well if someone else who the effort won't be wasted on wants to ask, I'll be glad to.

    Watch out for those knife wielding birds.

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    Its sad you can't derive a mature comment. A tear to my eye no less
     
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    Corporate welfare even pays multimillion dollar bonuses.
     
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    Why hire foreigners at that rate when you can hire natives?
     
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    No, it isn't. Labor is the People. Providing for the general welfare is about helping out the People.

    And, social services cost around fourteen dollars an hour by comparison, anyway.
     
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    Pretty sure illegal aliens would not benefit from a minimum wage increase law.

    The idea that the left now opposes a minimum wage hike because it would push illegals out of the job market is absurd. They’re illegal. Businesses hire them because they don’t have to pay them minimum wage in he first place.
     
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    Why hire foreigners at that rate when you can hire natives?
     
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    You can’t hire natives at that rate....
     
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    Seattle does. Only the right has problems.
     
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    Yes it is. People need to learn the value in making themselves valuable and productive. ....then they get the wage they demand. You don't get a wage just because you are a warm body. The work ethic has gone to hell since minimum wage. So has a lot of "entry level jobs". Perhaps you never understood the concept of "entry level jobs". Those are low paying jobs where young people learn and develop good work habits, but then again, you don't need those if you are entitled to a minimum wage.
     
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    lol. It is Capitalists, "natural" rate of unemployment. We merely need to find better Capitalists.
     
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    Of course, it is the "natural" rate of unemployment. Everyone needs to see themselves as "entrepreneurs" no matter what they do. Some just will not. We have freedom to succeed and freedom to fail. Jesus said "the poor will be with you always." That is a natural fact. The only way government can change that is to make everyone poor.
     
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    The only way to change that is to stop complaining about the poor. Have some morals.
     
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    Clarify your own morals....if any.
     
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    "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
     
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    ...".but with God, All things are possible." ( don't leave out that last part)
     
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    They did have a laugh!
     
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    How about, Faith in the execution of our own laws?
     

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