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Originally posted by glbisthewaytobe
He also wasn't paid to do it.

No, he is just another socialist. He isnt impartial. He has volunteered for bernie in the past.

Originally posted by Cowpoker
What do professors of economics at really good schools say ? Let me start this by saying that I do not have a degree in economics but explain this to me on an incredibly simple level. The solution to our economy is taking money that is currently sitting in the hands of successful people/businesses is to take a larger portion away from them, filter it through the government, sending it to people and business who are not as successful and the economy will grow. I am missing the growth part of the equation. If anything, they are simply moving the goalposts, for example, you could say that someone earning 25 cents an hour in 1920 was making a living, that doesn't mean you have improved on anything by making that wage $8 an hour in 2015 or that you will improve that by making it $20 by 2020. Yes, $20 is more then $8 and $8 is more then 25 cents but where does that money magically come from ? Where does free college money come from, what will the government paying for college do to college tuition ?

I've never listed to Bill O'Reily in my life, never watched his show, never listened to an interview and have only seen sound bites when he says incredibly stupid shit but apparently he was on Colbert recently and said something that I actually agree with. It was something to the effect that Bernie and Trump are the same person, making wild promises about accomplishing things that are impossible.


Strong economies are active ones. Since 84%ish of the us population would benefit from the minimum wage increase to $15( which is factored into the math) you create shit loads of economic activity since 84%ish of the population spend all their take home income. And they will spend it. And yeah raising the minimum wage to $8 won't do shit, because we're not increasing the purchase power really. We've done this before. And it was a smashing success.

Raising minimum wage, will only raise the price of goods. If a company has to pay it's employees more, it will then in turn charge it's customers more. So your raise to $15 an hour means nothing when milk will cost $7 per gallon.

the cost of living goes up and those people still making minimum wage are still at or under the poverty line.

Or even worse. If companies dont think they can afford to pay the US's minimum wage then they will go to mexico or china and pay them practically nothing to do the same thing.

So not only did you not get that raise you were expecting. But you lost your job too. Kinda sucks eh?

Wat?

Originally posted by glbisthewaytobe
Strong economies are active ones. Since 84%ish of the us population would benefit from the minimum wage increase to $15( which is factored into the math) you create shit loads of economic activity since 84%ish of the population spend all their take home income. And they will spend it. And yeah raising the minimum wage to $8 won't do shit, because we're not increasing the purchase power really. We've done this before. And it was a smashing success.

Funny how you're the only one that 'gets it'. If it really was as simple and black and white as you make it, i wonder why the minimum isn't raised instantly in all states?

Originally posted by TruBucfan22
Or even worse. If companies dont think they can afford to pay the US's minimum wage then they will go to mexico or china and pay them practically nothing to do the same thing.

So not only did you not get that raise you were expecting. But you lost your job too. Kinda sucks eh?


It's almost like you're implying that they aren't already doing that.

Originally posted by Corndog
It's almost like you're implying that they aren't already doing that.

Well, let's just make it worse, right?

Originally posted by TruBucfan22
Wat?

it is employee's

Originally posted by Corndog
It's almost like you're implying that they aren't already doing that.

Oh i know they are. It will get worse the more we try to run the companies out of the US. Its weird how socialist think we live in a perfect world. Like companies will just sit there and let the government tax the shit out of them and force them to raise wages.

Do they not believe in cause and effect?

I'm a conservative but I don't agree with the GOP when it comes to the minimum wage. Many of them want to do away with it entirely. This would be a disaster considering the imbalance in the current job market.

Originally posted by carumba10
Funny how you're the only one that 'gets it'. If it really was as simple and black and white as you make it, i wonder why the minimum isn't raised instantly in all states?

Because rich people don't like parting with money. That's why they lobby so hard for free trade agreements, tax loopholes, etc, etc. Are you like, new at life?

Edit: literally every time we raise the minimum wage the economy improves. Literally. Every. Time.

Originally posted by TruBucfan22
Raising minimum wage, will only raise the price of goods. If a company has to pay it's employees more, it will then in turn charge it's customers more. So your raise to $15 an hour means nothing when milk will cost $7 per gallon.

the cost of living goes up and those people still making minimum wage are still at or under the poverty line.



The average cost per product increase over 6 years is like 25% for the worst case scenario estimate. Calm down there guy.

Originally posted by TruBucfan22
Or even worse. If companies dont think they can afford to pay the US's minimum wage then they will go to mexico or china and pay them practically nothing to do the same thing.

So not only did you not get that raise you were expecting. But you lost your job too. Kinda sucks eh?


We've already exported most of our jobs and it wasn't because labor costs were too high. It's because the wealthy elite just want more money.