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5/15/2016 9:00:10 PM
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The Poor Work Harder Than You Think
http://www.socialworkdegreecenter.com/10-common-misconceptions-poor/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/15/we-are-spending-153-billion-a-year-to-subsidize-mcdonalds-and-walmarts-low-wage-workers/
If someone is working 2-3 jobs, 40 hours a week, and still relies on the government to feed his family, then they're not the lazy ones. Their employers are.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/15-minimum-wage-petition?inline=file
And please for the love of God quit saying progressives don't understand economics.
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1 ReplyEdited by Spartan 22O: 5/17/2016 9:30:21 AMDon't you think it might help if they didn't have to pay taxes >Trump Tax Plan: - If you make 35K or less as a single or 50K or less as a couple, you pay ZERO taxes. How about we sort out the government taking our money instead of scapegoating people who make money legitimately. >You should not be punished for being very successful. VOTE TRUMP
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10 RepliesJust so you can stop sounding like the class fool, if the minimum wage is raised, the cost of goods will rise equally. To make it real simple for you, if minimum wage is raised from $8 to $20, and you use to be able to buy a value meal at McDonald's for $8 dollars, it will now cost you $20. So you are back where you started and as far as international markets are concerned, you are devaluing your money causing a recession. Which will probably lead to a massive sell off of our bonds held by international entities, followed by war and famine. But yeah just stick to playing destiny and leave the big boy topics to the big boys. K?
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The poor may worker harder than you think, but so do the rich.
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1 ReplyMinimum wage is to support 1 person not a family. One person on one minimum wage job can supply themselves but trying to support a family requires having the income to start one. Excluding extenuating circumstances people should consider this before hand
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19 RepliesIf they raise minimum wage it would eat into millionaires profits. Lets face it. Alot of franchise owners and business owners are millionaires. They want wages low as possible. Lets take a mcdonalds franchise for example. In response to the $15 minimum wage protests. Mcdonald made a statement that franchise owners only make 6 cents on the dollar of cheeseburger sales. Which is probably true. But its a trick statement. They profit alot from selling so many other items. Not just cheeseburgers. They make 90cent on the dollar just on soft drinks. To become a mcdonald franchise owner you must have assets that value more then 1 million dollars just to be considered. Do you really think these investors invest millions of dollars into one mcdonalds just to make 6 cents to the dollar? Hell no. Those stores gross over a million a year. My guess is they profit minimum 300-400k a year per store. Remind you most franchise owners own more than one store. If they had to spend 50k more a year to pay employees $15 an hour then they would only profit 250-350k a year. Thats not enough money for them and there life style so they are against it. Its called power and greed. Successful people over time get spoiled and what they have is not enough and they just want more.
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1 ReplyEdited by Hawk, The Maidenless: 5/17/2016 12:37:35 AM>The Poor Work Harder Than You Think >Napoleon [i]vive la resistance[/i]
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3 RepliesIt's funny people still support sanders when he never stood a chance against Hillary
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1 ReplyThe United States has become a cesspool of apathetic sociopaths who don't care about the working poor. Healthcare for all? No, -blam!- you and -blam!- your sick children. This is 'Murica where the poor die younger and the rich hand down billions of dollars to their spoiled brats. But at least we have the freedom to jerk off to our Bibles and our military! Yee Haw!!!
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So did slaves but a war had to happen to free them[spoiler]ITS JUST A JOKE, NINJAS I SWEAR[/spoiler]
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The problem with it is, you think that the money would come out of the pockets of the rich businessman. That's funny. All of the money will come from the customers. Then raised prices and inflation will kill the economy yet again.
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3 RepliesHard work doesn't equal success. Never has, never will.
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26 RepliesOP is from Canada. Null and void.
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4 RepliesIt's fun how both sides have such a different view on poor people.
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4 Repliesif you are working 3 jobs and still cant feed your kids, you need a different job
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1 ReplyI agree with this more than raising the minimum wage to 28.00
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1 ReplyThe message here is that intelligence is valued higher than brawn. Be thirsty for knowledge and alway strive to learn something new everyday and you will succeed in life.
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This is why we need a minimum wage of a 100 dollars
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1 ReplyOh Napoleon!
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119 RepliesGiven the Conservative economic leaning people who populate these forums, this post will undoubtedly fall on deaf ears. It goes against their beliefs to even consider something like this. Can't support your family? Should never have had one. No High school diploma? Should've worked harder or not dropped out. Stuck in minimum wage jobs? Your fault for not learning skills needed to get higher paid jobs. It ignores extenuating circumstances, and is a broad stereotyping procedure, but such is a belief system. Neither better nor worse than any other. Just different.
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For the last bloody time, MINIMUM WAGE IS FOR 1 PERSON. NOT TWO, NOT EIGHT. GET OVER IT
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13 RepliesWhat kind of schools can a person making under the poverty level get into?
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2 RepliesWhat is considered poor? When I think of poor I think of someone who asks for money on the street.
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1 ReplyShouldn't have been a dumb-blam!- in school and you wouldn't give a shit about minimum wage. Then again, the world needs stupid people. So thank you dumb-blam!-ers for making my life better.
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5 RepliesManual labor and physical work that the, "poor" do tends to be cheaper since [u]everyone[/u] can do it.
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It's not just a matter of greed, increasing minimum wage does have short term benefits but also tends to create long term issues. It should only be done to an extent where the benefits outweigh the long run effects. Too little increase and you risk seeing a decline in the standard of living. Too much and it creates inflation that could negate the benefits of the increase in a few years. Raising wages above the natural market price can also cause unemployment to rise as businesses hire less employees or outsource their labour force to low wage countires. Wage increases do help and are necessary within reason but they aren't always as helpfull as they might seem
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30 RepliesRaising the minimum wage shouldn't be seen as "compassionate" or "charitable."
