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When I tell liberals that hiking the minimum wage reduces employment of minimum wage workers, it often seems to come as an utter surprise. They've never heard that before.

One person argued with me. But if there is anything economics, experience, and common sense, tell us is that people and companies react to higher prices by buying less than they otherwise would have bought. One can find words to muddy the waters, but there is no getting around the reality.

1 posted on 01/28/2016 6:25:23 AM PST by ChessExpert
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If we want free trade with china etc... we will have to kill min wage PLUS and this is even more IMPORTANT, KILL the OVER REGULATION of Businesses and Individuals by the federal beer-o-crap-cies.


2 posted on 01/28/2016 6:35:02 AM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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i had one liberal tell me businesses wouldn’t be able to be in business without government, because government made the money. he worked for the post office... he was laid off...

i could see why.


3 posted on 01/28/2016 6:37:12 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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While minimum wages may increase the amount of money in one’s pocket, they ultimately end up with less buying power. Because those higher wage costs get added into the products and services rendered.


6 posted on 01/28/2016 6:51:48 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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The inordinate minimum wage increases bare at least in part designed to bring the benefits of Government Subsidized living to more and more people and to gradually eliminate unskilled labor from the workforce thuse creating a permanently larger underclass of Democrat voting welfare recipients.


7 posted on 01/28/2016 6:55:53 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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Minimum wage is what I have to pay you, it is all I have to pay you.

Minimum wage isn’t the minimum ALL jobs are paid, it is the minim job allowed to be performed. Any job not worth minimum wage isn’t allowed to be performed, so many jobs are killed off.


13 posted on 01/28/2016 7:48:07 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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Portland Maine is busy trying to become Hartford Connecticut.

Citizens there are trying to implement rent control.

Most of the smart money left the city.


20 posted on 01/28/2016 12:38:31 PM PST by Chickensoup (ISIS is like Marxism, not a country, but a dangerous sociopolitical philosophy)
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