Bernie Sanders

TexasBushwhacker

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9. We all do better when we all do better

Wed Dec 30, 2015, 09:34 PM

Dec 2015

If Walmart devoted its spare cash to workers' salaries they wouldn't have to raise their prices a penny. Even if they passed the entire cost of raising workers pay on to customers, they would still only have to raise their prices by around 2%, and that's not counting increased sales volume. Instead, full time workers have 34 hour schedules the whole year except the Christmas season and Walmart spends billions buying back shares which benefits the biggest stockholders - THE WALTON HEIRS!

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I need information about raising the minimum wage [View all] retrowire Dec 2015 OP

Tell him the billionaires thank him for his support Warpy Dec 2015 #1

Robert Reich is a professor at UC Berkley, he is an economist who explains complex ideas..... DrewFlorida Dec 2015 #2

Robert Reich always puts things in Sherman A1 Dec 2015 #4

And here's he video Paulie Dec 2015 #10

Ok, here goes. Rochester Dec 2015 #3

Funny how they never make this argument in response to CEO salaries skyrocketing. Scuba Dec 2015 #5

This is brought up every single time anyone brings up minimum wage. Cassiopeia Dec 2015 #6

It's not that simple TexasBushwhacker Dec 2015 #7

And by the very nature that is an across the board minimum wage, all the lower paid workers, LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #8

We all do better when we all do better TexasBushwhacker Dec 2015 #9