To me there is no connection between inflation and the increases in the min wage based on this one chart. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH AND POST OR KINDLY SHUT UP.
Posted on 07/18/2019 11:48:07 AM PDT by conservative98
The Simom Legree wing of Free Republic loves that.
I don't think that Free Republic is the right forum for you - you'd be far more comfortable over at one of the socialist sites!!!
So let me get this straight. I want workers to earn enough to get off assistance and this makes me a socialist? Ok then. There are ONLY 8 million “entrepreneurs” that feed off of cheap labor IMO SHOULD NOT CONTROL ONE OF ONLY TWO POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE USA. That is my point. If the Republicans don’t grab the working man’s/woman’s vote soon then the Democrats are going to take them black. They are up for grabs. That’s 80 to 100 million potential voters.
I want them off assistance too! By working for it! However, that doesn't mean that we need to regulate what they're paid to accomplish it. I never wanted to be on assistance, and haven't been. To accomplish that I worked more and studied more to gain skills that made me a "good catch" employment wise. I became a "single mom" through the death of my husband when I was 30 years old. I worked double shifts and studied so that I didn't have to "get on the dole". My mother-in-law took care of my son while I WORKED so that I could accomplish that. I didn't think that I could work part-time, sit on my ass and think that someone owed me something in the way of higher wages. Higher wages only come by hard work and skills.
You do realize that when minimum wages are increased, the cost of things (products, utilities, rent, food, etc) goes up accordingly. Within a short time, we're back to square one. The bottom tier will then be back where we started. You should be on the "Bernie/Focahonta/AOC Express" where $15/hr will magically solve all the worker's problems and it's all the fault of "Big Bad Business".
Perhaps some but in general not really. That is a myth.
Lol. Do you have stats on that
LOL. When I stated working min wage was $1.65/hr. When it was kicked up I never saw an price increases in anything. Granted my biggest expenses at that time were beer, fast food and gasoline but that is what I saw. Then gas went up exponentially in the 70’s because of oil embargoes HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MIN WAGE. There is no connection between the min wage increase and inflation. Show me the stats.
Your comment is counter intuitive. You made a statement. Now back it up
Spoken like a true Socialist/Marxist/Communist! You've totally outed yourself. I'm done talking to you!
To me there is no connection between inflation and the increases in the min wage based on this one chart. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH AND POST OR KINDLY SHUT UP.
Thank the Lord. Good day.
Lol. You made the claim
Nice try raising fast food prices does not not necessarily trigger inflation. Nice try. No kewpie doll
Ok, explain from that chart the correlation between inflation and min wage. You can’t because there is none. Did you go to HS? Did you even graduate?
Min wage increased almost 25% between 1993 and 1998 and inflation went down almost 50%!!! It looks like increasing min wage actually decreases the inflation rate most of the time!!
you refuse to focus on prices where businesses had to increase pay due to increases in minimum wage. If a MCDonalds wages went from 11 to 15 dollars an hour nationwide to say prices won’t increase is idiotic.
I don’t want to do this dance with you anymore.
So do taxpayers. You have to figure in that.
I am an active UAW member, i know how that all works. No one benifits from this, would be my point.
Overall inflation is unaffected each time the minimum wage was raised. Look at the statistics instead of going with your “feelings”.
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