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hmmmmmmm...
I also believe that something needs to be done about minimum wage, tying it to inflation first and hopefully removing SS and Medicaid taxes on the lowest earners in the country.
Guess I'm not Republican then?
So many issues that I don't agree with the GOP on, yet to the few people in here that keep claiming that I am one I see no evidence that they aren't Democrats when they say that they aren't.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Just because you want to ramp up inflation and depress the economy in exchange for your personal self interests does not mean you are inherently anti-conservative.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
hmmmmmmm...
I also believe that something needs to be done about minimum wage, tying it to inflation first and hopefully removing SS and Medicaid taxes on the lowest earners in the country.
Guess I'm not Republican then?
So many issues that I don't agree with the GOP on, yet to the few people in here that keep claiming that I am one I see no evidence that they aren't Democrats when they say that they aren't.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I have seen you become overly sensitive, so no need to answer if you do not wish:
Do you know why most campaigners and promoters (Unions) of Minimum Wage Increases demand these Increases?
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Just because you want to ramp up inflation and depress the economy in exchange for your personal self interests does not mean you are inherently anti-conservative.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
hmmmmmmm...
I also believe that something needs to be done about minimum wage, tying it to inflation first and hopefully removing SS and Medicaid taxes on the lowest earners in the country.
Guess I'm not Republican then?
So many issues that I don't agree with the GOP on, yet to the few people in here that keep claiming that I am one I see no evidence that they aren't Democrats when they say that they aren't.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I have seen you become overly sensitive, so no need to answer if you do not wish:
Do you know why most campaigners and promoters (Unions) of Minimum Wage Increases demand these Increases?
My suggestion to eliminate SS/Medicaid taxes on the lowest earners would not affect inflation or the economy.
Regardless of how you feel on the issue, the minimum wage is important. It has gotten to the point with inflation now that working a minimum wage job is almost not even worth working anymore. Especially not with all the government handouts that go to poor people with children.
I'm not saying I have all the answers, but if something isn't done soon there will be riots and I'm assuming bloodshed. I can't imagine that even the most stone-cold republican wants to see that happen.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Not sure if you are intentionally avoiding the question - the only question I posed, but I don't see where you answered it.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Just because you want to ramp up inflation and depress the economy in exchange for your personal self interests does not mean you are inherently anti-conservative.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
hmmmmmmm...
I also believe that something needs to be done about minimum wage, tying it to inflation first and hopefully removing SS and Medicaid taxes on the lowest earners in the country.
Guess I'm not Republican then?
So many issues that I don't agree with the GOP on, yet to the few people in here that keep claiming that I am one I see no evidence that they aren't Democrats when they say that they aren't.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I have seen you become overly sensitive, so no need to answer if you do not wish:
Do you know why most campaigners and promoters (Unions) of Minimum Wage Increases demand these Increases?
Quote:You seem to be decrying the effects of inflation, but your solution is to ramp up inflation by Increasing Minimum Wage? Thus taking away even more economic power from the Minimum Wage worker?
Regardless of how you feel on the issue, the minimum wage is important. It has gotten to the point with inflation now that working a minimum wage job is almost not even worth working anymore.
Quote:A separate issue from Minimum Wage Increases.
Especially not with all the government handouts that go to poor people with children.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
A separate issue from Minimum Wage Increases.
Yes and no.
Yes for you because neither of them directly effect your life.
No for the more than half of Americans who are making below the federal poverty level today.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Not sure if you are intentionally avoiding the question - the only question I posed, but I don't see where you answered it.
Yes I am. It's irrelevant.
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You seem to be decrying the effects of inflation, but your solution is to ramp up inflation by Increasing Minimum Wage?
I said I didn't have all the answers. But you're going to have to do a lot more than just say something is true to make it true.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:They are separate issues. If they were the same issue, then all Minimum Wage workers would make the same.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Yes and no.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
A separate issue from Minimum Wage Increases.
Yes for you because neither of them directly effect your life.
No for the more than half of Americans who are making below the federal poverty level today.
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Quote:gotcha.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Yes I am. It's irrelevant.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Not sure if you are intentionally avoiding the question - the only question I posed, but I don't see where you answered it.Quote:I said I didn't have all the answers. But you're going to have to do a lot more than just say something is true to make it true.
You seem to be decrying the effects of inflation, but your solution is to ramp up inflation by Increasing Minimum Wage?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:They are separate issues. If they were the same issue, then all Minimum Wage workers would make the same.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Yes and no.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
A separate issue from Minimum Wage Increases.
Yes for you because neither of them directly effect your life.
No for the more than half of Americans who are making below the federal poverty level today.
So what's your point? Who cares?
You don't think the rampant government subsidies already out there for the poor aren't raising the hell out inflation anyhow?
What's your solution, Mr. Smarty Pants?
All I'm telling you is that if nothing is done, somebody is going to come up in your hood and violently take your stuff. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but that day is coming.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:"Inflation-causing wage increases" is a nice formula for no minimum wage. What could be better to change inflation to a negative number than to do away with the minimum altogether? And Ron Paul and Rand Paul were thinking the existence of minimum wage was a plot against libertarian principles. Most other Republican Congressmen are smarter than the Pauls and won't say it out loud.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I didn't recall that the GOP has brought legislation to repeal Minimum Wage.
Originally posted by second:Quote:You would not be correct on that. The GOP's ideal version of Capitalism has no universal healthcare and no taxes on the wealthy and no minimum wage. The Democrat's ideal version is the opposite. You can quibble about how far Congressional Democrats would dare to go when they write the law for their "ideal" version, but no matter how short or far a distance they go down the path to "ideal", they will be absolutely opposed by every force the GOP can bring against them. Need I add that since it takes 67 votes in the Senate, not 51, to get anything controversial and permanently done (not just for 10 years and then repealed), the Democrats will fall far short of "ideal".
Originally posted by 1kiki:
https://eand.co/why-were-underestimating-american-collapse-be04d9e5523
In interestingly enough, the author lays the collapse at the feet of our particular brand of predatory capitalism - the kind both republicans AND DEMOCRATS love so wholeheartedly.
I had only heard the GOP opposed to Inflation-causing Minimum Wage Increases.
When did they bring forth Bills to Repeal Minimum Wage?
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