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TrollBuster9090

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1. Does anybody have a link to that poll that shows
Wed Mar 20, 2013, 05:31 PM
Mar 2013

that the people who are most vehemently opposed to raising the Minimum Wage are those people who make just slightly MORE than the Minimum Wage? I thought that one was very telling, and explains a lot of the hatred of the very poor by the working poor, and why so many low wage workers back Republicans who are opposed to their own interests. A raise in Minimum Wage would mean those people working slightly above minimum wage are now working AT minimum wage. As the ultimate example of schadenfreude, they want to keep some people very poor, so that they won't have to think of themselves as occupying the lowest rung on the ladder.

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