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We can't afford the minimum wage anymore because it cuts down on the number of jobs in the economy. $7.25 an hour is just too high for us the compete with the global economy. When workers will work for 23 cents an hour in Vietnam our minimum wage put the US worker at a huge disadvantage.
So what if someone has to work 3 or 4 jobs to make a living. That is what the third world is doing. Our exceptionalism and higher wages are not a given or a right. The market will correct any inequality over time. Besides if you can't or don't work you should not eat. It about freedom. And everyone must justify their existence.
The Constitution does not guarantee success for everyone. It only guarantees the freedom to compete.
The previous is tea bagger logic and what they view as correct for America. The question is how do we crush these morons out of existence. We cannot have the kind of America they are determined to force on the rest us.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)The more people make an hour, the less they need or qualify for government assistance.
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)penultimate
(1,110 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)" Show me where and when conservative economic theories have EVER proven to be beneficial to society " ...
They come back with the Reagan Tax Cut nonsense that has been refuted long ago ...
Same old same old ....
struggle4progress
(118,281 posts)a two person household is around $15500
$7.25/hr is about $14000 a year: a single person, very carefully living on that, won't have $7 left over at the end of a typical day
So it's barely enough for one person and not nearly enough for two