Real reason Democrats want to raise minimum wage.

yktind

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are you honestly asking me how a higher minimum wage helps those who make minimum wage?

are you retarded?
It's retarded hoping that they still spend all of their money. Hoping the live pay check pay check after a wage increase is not fixing the problem. That is retarded.
 

UncleBuck

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It's retarded hoping that they still spend all of their money. Hoping the live pay check pay check after a wage increase is not fixing the problem. That is retarded.
their buying power increases, so it is up to them to save any extra they have. but they are not forced to, it's a free country.

in any case, i answered your question about how an increase to min wage helps those that make min wage. they have more money and increased spending power, an answer that even a retarded person should know intuitively.
 

DonAlejandroVega

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retarded people would make much better employees, than some of these spoiled, texting, illiterate cretins the employers are paying too much for now. honest, diligent, with a good work ethic.
 

DonAlejandroVega

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yes, get Uncle to invade the "free" market, with his laser-sighted SSWAT teams to extort the money, that the market does not currently support.
let Uncle go away, and so will any problems the market may encounter.
 

DonAlejandroVega

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no.

a dozen eggs, august 1988: $0.909
a dozen eggs, august 2011: $1.711

+88%

gallon of milk, august 1995: $2.482 (restricted data set, sorry)
gallon of milk, august 2013: $3.448

+39%

bananas, june 1988: $0.501
bananas, june 2012: $0.605

+21%

coffee, march 1988: $2.634
coffee, march 2010: $3.565

+35%

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ap
$!.71 eggs?? pigeon? crow eggs? lol
I pay almost $4. you're buying from WIC surplus, I take it.
 

DonAlejandroVega

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a dozen eggs at the store are $2.09 right now. same in philadelphia i bet.

your idiocy does not change the BLS numbers.
we eat different food, forget it. inflation is setting in. food manufacturers are selling smaller packages for the same price. luckily I don't need you, to tell me I'm being reduced to serfdom, by a corrupt oligarchy. again, enjoy your filet of Underwood Deviled Ham :)
 

yktind

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we eat different food, forget it. inflation is setting in. food manufacturers are selling smaller packages for the same price. luckily I don't need you, to tell me I'm being reduced to serfdom, by a corrupt oligarchy. again, enjoy your filet of Underwood Deviled Ham :)
I just saw bacon for $5.49/ lb. (it was in a 12 oz. package)
 

UncleBuck

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some people will blame the government, others will correctly blame H1N1, and the circle of life will continue.
 

canndo

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I'd rather be called dumb by someone who scrapes together logic with a tane soup spoon than be ignorant.

Increase in minimum wage = increase in overall costs for everything. Yes paying the dude at the grocery store to collect carts 2 dollars more an hour will have an impact on your groceries. If you think thats bullshit you need to drop the crack pipe.

is this more of that bogus "econ 101" crap? Or is it "common sense"?

so look at reality for a second instead of theoretical reasoning in a vaccuum.

minimum wage is the only cost that does not float on top of inflation. It is the only artificial.

so, a business pays increasingly more for meat, buns, electricity, gasoline, and even salaries.

so, according too your common sense, high school level economics class, our entire economy is artificial because we SHOULD have been paying a minimum wage that adjusted for inflation.

according to you, our entire economy rides on the backs of teens and WalMart greeters.

the reality should be examined. Adjusted for inflation, these workers should be getting about 22 bucks. So where did that money go?

it either went to keep all prices artificially low, or it went into the pockets of the principles and stock holders.

or do you care to expand on that short sighted notion that a rise in minimum wage must automaticaly make all prices rise?
 

NoDrama

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A 12"TV was $600 and you can't give them away now. One commodity is not representative of the cost of living.
You can't really compare a TV to real estate though. One is dependent on technology and the other is dependent on the fact that they aren't making any more land.

Any item that is produced by humans including commodities SHOULD see reducing prices, but the monetary system makes that nearly impossible by introducing inflation into the system. Inflation is really good for the State and really bad for the citizens. It may seem like your home rising in price is good for you
a dozen eggs at the store are $2.09 right now. same in philadelphia i bet.

your idiocy does not change the BLS numbers.
Wait, you just said eggs were $1.71, now you say they are $2.09.

Is this how you prove there is no inflation and rising prices are not real?

Damn good job of it so far if your plan was to look like a dummy. Spot on.
 
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