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Originally Posted by KMA-628
Easy, money doesn't grow on trees.
Every increase in spending, private or otherwise, has to be paid for somehow.
You are naive to think that a dramatic increase in the minimum wage would only have positive outcomes. And yes, an increase in the neighborhood of 40% is dramatic.
Like I said, if the majority of people earning minimum wage did so for a long period of time, I would likely agree with you. Since it clearly is not the case, I disagree.
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When Ohio's top 2 employers are Wal*Mart and Kroger and both pay less than $9 an hour (Wal*Mart's highest pay is $7.00, Kroger pays $6.50 to start.) In both cases true raises are almost unheard of... roughly 25 cents an hour. Both hire part-time and neither has true benefits (Kroger's does but it is very very hard to get F/T and once they break their union then it's over.)
So while it is true easy money doesn't grow on trees, wages are becoming an extremely volatile issue, we cannot keep a positive growing economy when wages move backwards.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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