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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:34 AM Original message |
If having a minimum wage is so bad for the economy |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. Slave labor is what the republicans and the neocons really want |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:42 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. I am not sure that this is even exageration. |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 08:06 AM Response to Reply #1 |
18. Not really ... since you consider that a slave was an investment |
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gulfcoastliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
2. Talk to some undergrads taking Econ and they'd agree wholeheartedly. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
15. They must have skipped the chapter on marginal propensity to consume |
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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
3. Why pay them at all? |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
4. There is no evidence that minimum wage laws have |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:53 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. I have never understood that theory. It seems to me that if you |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 08:14 AM Response to Reply #13 |
21. I'm not an economist |
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jwtravel (42 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 10:02 AM Response to Reply #13 |
27. Effect of Minimum Wage increase |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 02:02 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. Do you think this applies to top wage earners as well? |
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newyawker99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-29-06 08:44 AM Response to Reply #27 |
36. Hi jwtravel!! |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 10:10 AM Response to Reply #13 |
29. the right wing theory is that the rich will spend more than the poor |
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Dr.Phool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
5. We need a maximum wage to go along with it. |
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TAPat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Oh, how very well said! nt |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 09:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
26. What should the maximum |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:42 AM Response to Original message |
6. How the capitalists' class warfare works... |
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MrsT (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
9. Does anyone have data on the last time min wage was increased |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
10. The cry has always been that raising the min wage will spark inflation |
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MoseyWalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-29-06 01:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
41. I saw a sign on a drive up fast food place |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:46 AM Response to Original message |
11. How does the German economy continue with all those worker rights? |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 10:07 AM Response to Reply #11 |
28. From the "World in Figures" |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 06:16 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. the demographic differences are real - the econ #'s diff is not - the calc |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-29-06 01:02 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Well it certainly is axiomatic |
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Cassandra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
12. Lately I've been hearing the RW talking point... |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 08:12 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. "Then what?" indeed! I have been asking that ? FOREVER! |
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Cassandra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 08:22 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. For over 25 years I've been saying that... |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 07:56 AM Response to Original message |
14. Since the last time the minimum wage was raised, bush's salary |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 08:06 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. I understand they want to "raise" minimum wage to a little over |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
16. Be quiet, CPD! Don't give the conservatives ideas! nt |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
17. Those workers spend all of that money, so it's good for the economy |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
22. It Isn't |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 08:27 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. OK, then shift my original post to a nondescript individual state |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-29-06 08:52 AM Response to Reply #23 |
38. Ding dong, the anti-worker witch is DEAD! |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
30. I can't remember from my college debating years |
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MardiGras Bandit (35 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 11:16 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Opposing minimum wage is NOT a right wing theory |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-29-06 08:51 AM Response to Reply #31 |
37. Opposing minimun wage is not RW theory, it's a fact. |
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557188 (494 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-29-06 01:11 PM Response to Reply #31 |
40. Uhhh |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-28-06 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
35. Minimum wage should be balanced out by lowering top wages. |
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