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Old 03-28-2014, 05:46 PM
 
Location: NJ
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Please. Just pay your employees 45 cents more per year over the next three years .
45 cents per year is affordable. For a full time employee, it is just .0002 per hour more.
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Old 03-28-2014, 07:29 PM
 
Location: Florida
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45 cents per year is affordable. For a full time employee, it is just .0002 per hour more.
If your profit margins are so thin that you can't afford to increase the wages to $10.10 in three years, then you suck at running a business.
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Old 03-28-2014, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Texas
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If your profit margins are so thin that you can't afford to increase the wages to $10.10 in three years, then you suck at running a business.
Get back to us after you have some experience running a business.
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Old 03-28-2014, 07:47 PM
 
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Get back to us after you have some experience running a business.
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Old 03-28-2014, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Get back to us after you have some experience running a business.
What if the current minimum wage was $7.00 and it was proposed to increase to $8.70? Would you be pissed? If there was no minimum wage, how much would you pay your lowest wage employees?
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Old 03-28-2014, 09:03 PM
 
Location: NJ
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Get back to us after you have some experience running a business.
Or even any experience on the operational side of a business.
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Old 03-28-2014, 09:40 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Or even any experience on the operational side of a business.
And having good business experience somehow resolves the problem of income inequality in this state? Business leaders never, ever make good political leaders. Running a country is not the same as running a business. The primary goal of a business is to make money. The primary goal of government is to prevent businesses from abusing laborers for their own benefit.

Fortunately, Barack Obama is on the laborers' side.

I'd rather have a smart college professor be president than a business leader.
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Old 03-28-2014, 10:10 PM
 
Location: Somewhere on the Moon.
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One of the added benefits of artificially rising wages:



One less person bringing a paycheck home!

Hey, but at least Nep will sleep well knowing that the fewer people with jobs will earn more and those without jobs will have it even more difficult to find one!
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Old 03-28-2014, 10:23 PM
 
Location: Florida
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One of the added benefits of artificially rising wages:



One less person bringing a paycheck home!

Hey, but at least Nep will sleep well knowing that the fewer people with jobs will earn more and those without jobs will have it even more difficult to find one!
How stupid and one dimensional your analysis is. Yes, computerization and technology means one less low skilled job, but that would have happened anyway, even if there was no minimum wage.

Second, replacing humans with technology actually creates another job (more or less) with the enterprise that actually manufactures the technology equipment. Duh.
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Old 03-28-2014, 10:32 PM
 
Location: Fairfield, Connecticut
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I hate this raise thing...now when shopping at Staples, there is only going to be 1 register open at Staples of Fairfield. Oh, forgot, Staples of Bridgeport is closing so all the Blott shoppers will make Fairfield Staples even more crowded . Maybe Officemax of Fairfield is better.
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