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In reply to the discussion: 9 Months On, Koch Fears Realized After Town Raised Minimum Wage To $15 [View all]Wounded Bear
(58,634 posts)18. I always wondered...
Since the Repubs always claimed that unemployment was high because people didn't want to work, I always wondered what would happen if you increased the incentive for work by, oh I don't know, increasing wages, what would happen.
Apparently, people flock to those higher paying jobs.
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9 Months On, Koch Fears Realized After Town Raised Minimum Wage To $15 [View all]
Katashi_itto
Feb 2015
OP
Exactly! You give the rich more money and they hoard it, sock it away, move it around,
calimary
Feb 2015
#40
Shocking! Does not fit the agenda....But mini-toy helicopters in Paris?...where is my blankee!
Fred Sanders
Feb 2015
#13
The "fucking government-enemy of the people" are the ones that just voted FOR the raise
Sheepshank
Feb 2015
#39