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In a truly free market women and children would be exploited for cheap labor as they are in the third world countries. Ten year old kids work from morning to night and are paid 10 cents an hour if that because there are no child labor laws, no forty hour work week, no minimum wage laws, no safety regulations, etc.
Yeah people on minimum wage are drinking wine and living the life of party. Talk about a nutty comment.
You want nuttiness turn on your TV and watch a rerun of the republican debates.
It's a bona fide three ring circus act complete with a tabloid reality celebrity as their ringmaster.
Seriously? That clown is your most popular candidate?
"Yeah people on minimum wage are drinking wine and living the life of party."
Explain how liquor stores thrive in poor areas.
I don't think you know what you are talking about.
Scrubbing toilets is a worthless job? You mean to say you place no value on having clean toilets?
You prefer all the restrooms to be dirty and nasty when you use them? Scrubbing toilets is not a high skilled job, but it is hard work that provides a valuable service (clean restrooms that don't have urine and crap stains everywhere on the floors and walls) and people who do those jobs deserve to be paid a living wage for their hard work. You do value having clean public restrooms to use don't you, or were you raised in a barn?
Bettering one's life requires education, and education costs money. How do you think you will manage to save any money for college or a trade school...which cost and arm and a leg these days...when you are struggling on a daily basis just to make ends meet with a job that pays you poverty wages?
You would happily vote for a guy who lies through his teeth as easily as he breathes? Says he is against illegal immigration, but hires hundreds of undocumented immigrants so he can exploit them for cheap labor and shortchanges them on their pay. Just another typical 'free market' republican thug.
you all know people have been cheated-over time with the wage not moving up with the CPI- you always refer back to the little small mom and pop in town of 3 in stick in the woods with a part time employee. FULL time is unheard of- they cut people to 30 hours or less. You cry about people wanting to work for a decent pay that relates to the economy - or a LIVING wage which is very different in cities compared to your wachamacallit town. question --would you NOT rather the BIG companies pay people enough so they do not have to get taxpayer help? Why should MY taxes pay for their food stamps -and the big corps go fishing their fancy $15 mil. yachts?? -- it is stupid!! BIG corps do hire low wage illegals and outsource your job overseas leaving you in dire straits-- people are so darn in love with big corps-- I have NO idea why politicians bark at them in their campaigns -- we made them into "people" and soon they will have souls - I do not get it- except people just blind to their truth of who these people really are?
"I have NO idea" Finally something we both agree on!
Yes, when something happens it gets reported in the news. That's how it works.
Trump even admitted they were illegal but claims he didn't know at the time.
Is he really that clueless and stupid about what goes on in his own company, or just a liar with a bad hairdo. My guess would be the latter.
Princeton University economist Alan Krueger pointed out recently in the New York Times, “research suggests that a minimum wage set as high as $12 an hour will do more good than harm for low-wage workers.” That’s because a higher minimum puts more money into the pockets of people who will spend it, mostly in the local economy. That spending encourages businesses to hire more workers. Which is why many economists, like Krueger, support raising the federal minimum to $12 an hour.
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More people with more money in their pockets can only be a good thing for businesses. More customers who have more money in their pockets can now afford to buy your products and services. As a result you will then expand and grow your business, hiring more workers and creating more good-paying jobs.
When low-wage workers can afford to buy more than just the necessities of life, its good for business and good for the economy, and good for state and federal budgets when they don't have to subsidize so many millions of working poor with food stamp and welfare benefits. Why does the richest nation on earth have the highest rate of poverty in the developed world? Because its trickle down economic policies are a joke, doesn't work and never will.
so you raise the min wage..and what happens....does the PERSON get totake home more moeny....nope they just pay more in income tax, payroll tax, medical insurance, and everything else
who wins with raising the min wage.... the politicians
"Bettering one's life requires education, and education costs money"
In the U.S. education to get a high school diploma is FREE.
How many of these "poor" you are so concerned about have one?
What does having a HS diploma qualify you for? To work the drive thru at McDonald's?
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"Is he really that clueless and stupid about what goes on in his own company,"
Are YOU really that STUPID not to know that big time CEO's of huge company's do NOT know every single person out of the thousands that work for them?
The more you post the credibility you loose.
Figure it out genius. Are you really that STUPID to not check for valid DOCUMENTATION of people who work for you before hiring them? Failing to do so is not only stupid its criminal and against the law.
[quote=urbanlife78;41632947]We hear this every time something changes for the better for the working American, yet these gloom and dooms never come.../QUOTE]
"In June of last year, the Seattle city council passed a $15 minimum wage law to be phased in over time, with the first increase to $11 an hour starting on April 1, 2015. What effect will the eventual 58% increase in labor costs have on small businesses, including area restaurants? It’s too soon to tell for sure, but there is already some evidence that the recent minimum wage hike to $11 an hour, along with the pending increase of an additional $4 an hour by 2017 for some businesses, has started having a negative effect on restaurant jobs in the Seattle area. The chart above shows that the Emerald City MSA started experiencing a decline in restaurant employment around the first of the year (when the state minimum wage increased to $9.47 per hour, the highest state minimum wage in the country), and the 1,300 job loss between January and June is the largest decline over that period since 2009 during the Great Recession (data here). The loss of 1,000 restaurant jobs in May following the minimum wage increase in April was the largest one month job decline since a 1,300 drop in January 2009..."
Raising the minimum wage will really do jack. I mean you raise the wage prices will inflate and taxes will raise. Very little regulation on these two factors. So you'll be making more, but paying more. Like how my state of CT raised the income tax to 5.5% for those making $50K and above. People received raises, but still making same money as before or less.
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you always refer back to the little small mom and pop in town of 3 in stick in the woods with a part time employee. FULL time is unheard of- they cut people to 30 hours or less. You cry about people wanting to work for a decent pay that relates to the economy - or a LIVING wage which is very different in cities compared to your wachamacallit town. 
- we made them into "people" 
and soon they will have souls - I do not get it- except people just blind to their truth of who these people really are?
