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1 minute ago, placeholder said:

Nowhere in the country is $7.25/hr a living wage.

Harris has identified the McDonald's she worked at. An old friend for her university days confirms that she worked there. You've got nothing.

 

If raising the minimum wage was a solution that worked it would have been done as it has many times before and been scuccesful. Everybody above the minimum wage also has to have an increase so there is nothing gained. In fact you bring the middle towards the bottom not the bottom towards the top. 

 

Okay so what city was it and what year? I had no idea a friend confirmed it. Where was that? Address?

 

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20 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

If raising the minimum wage was a solution that worked it would have been done as it has many times before and been scuccesful. Everybody above the minimum wage also has to have an increase so there is nothing gained. In fact you bring the middle towards the bottom not the bottom towards the top. 

 

Okay so what city was it and what year? I had no idea a friend confirmed it. Where was that? Address?

 

It's truly ironic that you accuse me of being innumerate and yet you come up with this mishmash about the minimum wage.  Why would nothing be gained if the minimum wage was increased? Are you claiming that the purchasing power wouldn't change for those whose wages were increased? Do you think wages are just some kind of status symbols and their sole significance is establishing where you stand in some kind of pecking order?

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24 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

If raising the minimum wage was a solution that worked it would have been done as it has many times before and been scuccesful. Everybody above the minimum wage also has to have an increase so there is nothing gained. In fact you bring the middle towards the bottom not the bottom towards the top. 

 

Okay so what city was it and what year? I had no idea a friend confirmed it. Where was that? Address?

 

And apparently you believe that it would be a bad thing if other workers wages had to be raised if the minimum wage rose.

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Just now, placeholder said:

It's truly ironic that you accuse me of being innumerate and yet you come up with this mishmash about the minimum wage.  Why would nothing be gained if the minimum wage was increased? Are you claiming that the purchasing power wouldn't change for those whose wages were increased? Do you think wages are just some kind of status symbols and their sole significance is establishing where you stand in some kind of pecking order?

 

Because prices increase as everybody moves up the ladder. You arent going to find peop,e that do well making $40 an hour now that unskilled labor makes $20 an hour ask the long shore men.

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2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

And apparently you believe that it would be a bad thing if other workers wages had to be raised if the minimum wage rose.

 

It would make the change irrelevant. Let's make the minimum wage $50 an hour. Even in rural locations. You simply can not manipulate an economy like the USA doing this. Unless you want rent to be $10,000 a month. It has been tried many times and they quit the experiment at $7.25 because it has never worked.

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Just now, Cryingdick said:

 

Because prices increase as everybody moves up the ladder. You arent going to find peop,e that do well making $40 an hour now that unskilled labor makes $20 an hour ask the long shore men.

Another example of your innumeracy. Rising wages are one cost input of many.  So it makes no sense to say that a wage raise of say 8 dollars will result in an increase in prices that will nullify an 8 dollar raise.

And, what makes your remark particularly comical, is that Trump is proposing tariffs while denying that they will increase the cost of goods. And one of his arguments is that American workers will get higher wages as a result. 

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5 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

 

It would make the change irrelevant. Let's make the minimum wage $50 an hour. Even in rural locations. You simply can not manipulate an economy like the USA doing this. Unless you want rent to be $10,000 a month. It has been tried many times and they quit the experiment at $7.25 because it has never worked.

No, they quit the experiment because Republicans refused to support a rise in it.

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6 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Another example of your innumeracy. Rising wages are one cost input of many.  So it makes no sense to say that a wage raise of say 8 dollars will result in an increase in prices that will nullify an 8 dollar raise.

And, what makes your remark particularly comical, is that Trump is proposing tariffs while denying that they will increase the cost of goods. And one of his arguments is that American workers will get higher wages as a result. 

I am not a Trump supporter. I say positive thing about him but I have no intention of voting for him. So let's get that out of the way. Seattle was the first to raise minimum wages and amongst the first to have $4,000 studio apartments. 

 

It makes no difference to me raise the minimum wage to $50 an hour. It doesnt work. As i said earlier just add a zero to every bank note.

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2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

No, they quit the experiment because Republicans refused to support a rise in it.

The dems have had power the majority of the past 2 decades.

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