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I still have yet to see a reasonable, workable solution to helpint the "working poor". Sure, it would be nice if all these hardworking people could get more money, but who is going to foot the bill? Raising the minimum wage has more impact than just the base wage increase. A business usually pays approximately double an employees salary in SSI, taxes, and other gov't programs (depending on state workman's comp laws). So somebody making $6 an hour whose wage is bumped to $11 an hour has an increase of $11 to $20 per hour of labor for the company. So these costs are now going to come out the back end as either higher prices on goods (making the wage increase less effective) or as manufacturing jobs shipped out to countries where they don't have to pay as much.
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