Incisor
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I never said that.
Yes, you did. You said "All they are really doing is shifting more power and influence from the private sector to the government, not something I think is best." Implying that the private sector doesn't already have power and influence over the government. That's why I laughed out loud at your post. Because it's ridiculous.
Seriously, just because you and your social justice warrior ideology don't like the fact that the market places a certain value on certain type of work being performed, you somehow feel it's the government's job to disrupt it with overt and destructive influence by the force of the government gun.
When you argue like this against raising wages, all you're really doing is proving that capitalism is structurally unable to provide an adequate standard of living for the working class.
Little do you realize that even if the government went and did just as you believe it should, the market would react and respond probably in exactly opposite of what you want.
Look man, I don't work on assumptions. That's your guys' deal. The assumption that cutting taxes will somehow translate to increased spending. That premise, in and of itself, is false. It's false because we know that household debt skyrocketed when taxes were cut. We also know that household debt declined when taxes were raised. So it seems to me that we already know how the market responds to such things, and it doesn't respond the way you theorize it does. And let's be clear; everything from you guys is just theory. It's not grounded in any fact or evidence. It's grounded in your unflappable belief that you are right. That's called arrogance, friend.
Case in point are the minimum wage mandated in DC and Seattle (? Might be San Fran). In both cases, there are now fewer workers working fewer hours each week.
Yeah, and that's a bad thing, why? You don't think people should spend time with their families? Aren't you the party always belaboring the death of the family? So square that circle for me; how can you be pro-family, but think people should work more hours for less pay, spending less time with their families?
Since the people now earn less
You sure about that? The difference of higher wages on fewer hours from lower wages on more hours probably nets close to zero. We already know that raising the minimum wage didn't affect prices, despite repeated clamoring from the peanut gallery that it would.
The fiscal reality and fiscal responsibility doesn't change whether it's personal or government debt. Debt is debt
No. It. Isn't.
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