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dirtbag
climber
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Feb 26, 2014 - 08:25am PT
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Maybe the reasoning is, by raising the minwage we'll pay off the debt faster?
Yes, in part, but not for the reason you think.
Tax revenues would not likely go up much. People receiving the increase would still be at the bottom tax tier.
However, it would reduce public assistance. Much public assistance goes to help the working poor.
Would that be a bad thing?
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Feb 26, 2014 - 10:43am PT
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Raising the minimum wage is good for experienced adult workers. Teenagers can hardly get work, when an employer can hire an adult to do the same job.
Lets say the mw is $10hr, start 14-15yr old at $6hr, allow 16-17yr olds to work at $8hr. Youngsters will cycle into higher wage positions as they age, making opportunity for new hires.
Kids not working is a blight in our communities, I have three in high school and see the effects in this age group. The poor working and middle class families have kids that roam around...that could be learning responsibility and skills, getting out of the house but not on the streets, being accountable to an employer.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 26, 2014 - 11:19am PT
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JE, did it occur to you that posting a picture of you 'shishing' in the dirt
while wearing rubber gloves does nothing for yer credibility? I view that
in the same vein as soloing with a helmet on.
And I thought it was shashleek (phonetically) in Armenian?
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Feb 26, 2014 - 01:10pm PT
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And I thought it was shashleek (phonetically) in Armenian?
Quite right, but I figured I'd use the term with which more people are familiar.
John
P.S. The gloves prevent my hands from smelling like onions and marinade. I didn't want to attract bears to my tent!
;-)
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Factoid?...Solyndra is to Obama as Halliburton was to Bush
WOW!
Hyperbole or ignorance?
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Did you guys hear about Florida Democrat Alan Grayson beating his wife?
yes, I read that yesterday, I never knew Democrats are subject to human weaknesses, you?
I guess only Republicans can claim the moral high ground, family values people and all
significance of posting that = so damn tired of reading of Republicans saying and doing really stupid things that just so relieve to find a dumb Democrat, had to share
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WBraun
climber
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Yer all stupid whiny politards, every fuking one of ya ......
and the Putinator is coming.
He's gonna kick yer whiny stupid ass .....
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