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Trump on the Minimum Wage (vanity)

Posted on 07/26/2016 5:13:13 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

Just watched Trump on O'Reilly and he expounded on the minimum wage.

Will someone in the know get to Trump and tell him to stifle his minimum wage talk.

This is a free market issue...not a state or federal issue.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; bor; freemarket; minimumwage; oreilly; trump; trumpeconomy; trumptrain
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To: RoosterRedux

Solution:
No payroll tax, no FICA, etc for working poor.
Even employers share of SS, Medicare, etc goes to the employee.

At the same time no EITC. Cut SSI to the fake disabled.
Make all means-test programs harder to qualify.

Win-win for everyone ... except plantation maintenance crew.


41 posted on 07/26/2016 5:28:56 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: central_va
central_va said: "I’m in favor of the minimum wage does that make me a communist."

Basically, yes.

Are you in favor of a minimum level of worker productivity? Would you use whips or chains?

42 posted on 07/26/2016 5:29:22 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: NorthMountain
Does that mean you think he's lying to get votes?

Where's the lie at?

43 posted on 07/26/2016 5:29:43 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Moderate Muslims are the fansf cheering for blood during a hockey game)
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To: CodeToad

Businesses that pay very low wages are being indirectly subsidized by taxpayer money. If those employees are below the poverty level the government gives them subsidies for housing, food, medical care, etc. Those subsidies allow workers to continue to go to work for wages they couldn’t otherwise survive on. That’s why the Chamber of Commerce types love both cheap labor and the welfare status quo.


44 posted on 07/26/2016 5:29:52 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I think he’s trying to pull in the bernie voters and that he doesn’t have a big dog in the hunt to be changing minimum wage. He does say that it should be a state decision which isn’t bad..


45 posted on 07/26/2016 5:30:40 PM PDT by bigtoona (The media, GOPe, dems, commie Pope, hate Trump. He is the destroyer we've been waiting for!)
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To: William Tell

See #44. We don’t have a true free market of labor in this country.


46 posted on 07/26/2016 5:31:42 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: central_va
I’m in favor of the minimum wage does that make me a communist.

Yes.

47 posted on 07/26/2016 5:32:05 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: central_va

Evidently your good if you throw in state level control. /humor.


48 posted on 07/26/2016 5:32:44 PM PDT by enduserindy (Republican's have sold the path, not lost it.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
GuavaCheesePuff said: "These people at McDonald’s should be working there for a year."

My daughter only lasted a day at a Burger King. The following summer she worked harder to get a better job and ended up being paid twice the minimum wage.

There may well be people who would never be suited for anything above minimum wage. What a shame.

49 posted on 07/26/2016 5:32:46 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Hugin
Businesses that pay very low wages are being indirectly subsidized by taxpayer money. If those employees are below the poverty level the government gives them subsidies for housing, food, medical care, etc. Those subsidies allow workers to continue to go to work for wages they couldn’t otherwise survive on. That’s why the Chamber of Commerce types love both cheap labor and the welfare status quo.

Good point. Can't wait for the Simon Legree wing of FR to respond.

50 posted on 07/26/2016 5:32:50 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Hugin
Hugin said: "We don’t have a true free market of labor in this country."

While that may be true, I don't think raising the minimum wage is the solution.

51 posted on 07/26/2016 5:34:46 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: NorthMountain

I’ll order my Mao suit.


52 posted on 07/26/2016 5:35:36 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Pegged to inflation fits. But I don’t think I like manipulated inflation.


53 posted on 07/26/2016 5:35:53 PM PDT by enduserindy (Republican's have sold the path, not lost it.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m not opposed to raising the minunumn wage. First off, let me be clear: the minunumn wage hurts low skilled employment. This is well established and we all know it.

However there are 2 major benifits to the minunumn wage: Family owned businesses with kid workers have competitive advantage and it forces larger companies to invest in tech to reduce labor costs. This forced technological adavanced greatly increases productivity and makes us all wealthier.


54 posted on 07/26/2016 5:36:32 PM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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To: William Tell

Very well put.


55 posted on 07/26/2016 5:37:10 PM PDT by enduserindy (Republican's have sold the path, not lost it.)
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To: Hugin

See my post 41. The solution is too obvious maybe?


56 posted on 07/26/2016 5:38:02 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: William Tell

Eaxctly. You work your way UP.


57 posted on 07/26/2016 5:38:20 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
If he's claiming to support an increase in the minimum wage, but has no intention of actually doing anything to effect an increase in the minimum wage, then he's being willfully dishonest.

Is that what you think he's doing?

58 posted on 07/26/2016 5:38:41 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: RoosterRedux

I like calling it a state issue. Let the states FIGHT IT OUT. If they do, we Texans may well ABOLISH ours. Other states, particularly those into the $15 deal, they can try to compete with us.

LOL!!!!!!!!!


59 posted on 07/26/2016 5:40:19 PM PDT by BobL (A vote for anyone but Trump is a vote FOR Hillary, or a vote to ENABLE Hillary. Think about it.)
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To: central_va

Be sure to get a Lenin hat ... and pray you don’t get a Trotsky iceaxe from your fellow commies.


60 posted on 07/26/2016 5:40:57 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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