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To: lowbridge
If workers are going to get a wage they can survive on, there has to be public education involved. Younger generations don't demand "made in the USA". Except for discount store merchandise, low wages aren't causing the merchandise to cost less. It's endorsers, corporate profit, and transportation sources that get the savings.

A wage that folks could survive on would be a good thing. It would curtail a lot of federal handouts. What's going on now isn't that. No one is asking the protestors if they buy made in the USA goods whenever possible.

A combination of keeping invaders (legal and illegal) out of the US, protection from unfair practices for imports, US jobs for US citizens, and curtailing regulations of startups, and wages would take care of themselves. Supply and demand could function.

18 posted on 04/16/2016 4:38:54 AM PDT by grania
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To: grania

“If workers are going to get a wage they can survive on, there has to be public education involved. Younger generations don’t demand “made in the USA”. Except for discount store merchandise, low wages aren’t causing the merchandise to cost less. It’s endorsers, corporate profit, and transportation sources that get the savings.”

Raising wages will certainly require raising prices. Rising prices will result in less demand and a lower standard of living.

The economic impacts of raising the minimum wage is very similar to the impacts of imposing tariffs on imports.


24 posted on 04/16/2016 5:15:33 AM PDT by DugwayDuke
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