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If businesses wouldn't seek automation without increased

Posted on: November 5, 2018 at 09:14:52 CT

ummmm MU

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minimum wages, then what exactly is the benefit of forcing their hand with a minimum wage?

Certainly that does not help the poor person whose lifeline is eliminated.

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My predictions for tomorrow night: - hefeweizen MU

- 11/5 08:44:35

What the heck - raskolnikov MU - 11/5 09:12:26

What is the minimum wage prop?(nm) - TheWildcat STL - 11/5 09:02:44

B. I call it the automatic inflation proposition (nm) - hefeweizen MU

- 11/5 09:04:58

Prob B (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 11/5 09:03:42

So that's a no for me dawg (nm) - TheWildcat STL - 11/5 09:04:24

I'm torn a little. If raising the minimum wage leads to - MrBlueSky MU - 11/5 09:07:02

If businesses wouldn't seek automation without increased - ummmm MU - 11/5 09:14:52

I said torn. - MrBlueSky MU - 11/5 09:22:38

I'm addressing one of the sides which you are torn - ummmm MU - 11/5 09:28:58

Are you familiar with the history of the minimum wage - pickle MU

- 11/5 09:25:36

Progressive era...address sweatshops. Yes (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 11/5 09:29:56

No. It was to prevent undesirables from having families - pickle MU

- 11/5 09:33:23

So increasing wages for "undesirables" - MrBlueSky MU - 11/5 09:34:23

They weren't increasing wages for undesireables (nm) - pickle MU

- 11/5 09:42:51

Yes they were. Of course they were (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 11/5 09:44:53

They weren't - pickle MU

- 11/5 10:47:04

minimum wage is a wage floor - MizzouAstro MU

- 11/5 09:37:27

True or false: - MrBlueSky MU - 11/5 09:46:07

False (nm) - pickle MU

- 11/5 10:49:48

not in any practical sense. You are doing what minimum wage - MizzouAstro MU

- 11/5 10:25:14

No, it is a ceiling actually. By design. (nm) - hefeweizen MU

- 11/5 09:40:02

true, ceiling is a better analogy(nm) - MizzouAstro MU

- 11/5 10:23:59

why would you want to eliminate jobs? - MizzouAstro MU

- 11/5 09:09:14

More government provided income which leads to more - hefeweizen MU

- 11/5 09:10:15

Yeah, just another form of central planning. (nm) - ummmm MU - 11/5 09:19:31

wow - El-ahrairah BAMA - 11/5 09:08:30

Thanks? (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 11/5 09:10:58

Why anyone would vote to raise their taxes or prices on the - hefeweizen MU

- 11/5 09:05:59

they look pretty spot on(nm) - NWMizzouFan MU

- 11/5 09:13:19

If it leads to more automation I think that's a positive (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 11/5 09:07:38

Uneducated people who have no concept of scarcity(nm) - MizzouAstro MU

- 11/5 09:06:37

is Amendment 2 the one pro-weed wants - SwampTiger MU - 11/5 09:01:26

Yes(nm) - hefeweizen MU

- 11/5 09:03:52

Vote for 2 and C - MrBlueSky MU - 11/5 09:02:09

That's what I got(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 11/5 09:14:35

don’t know about the MO races - Ferg STL - 11/5 08:52:14

And then nothing changes. (nm) - ummmm MU - 11/5 08:48:24

But Reino is no longer voting - pickle MU

- 11/5 08:51:54

Why do you even post on this board? (nm) - hefeweizen MU

- 11/5 08:57:36

A few reasons - pickle MU

- 11/5 09:01:32

Your expectations are unrealistic and I suspect disingenuous - hefeweizen MU

- 11/5 09:03:27

Nothing disingenuous about them (nm) - pickle MU

- 11/5 09:05:24

I don't believe you. Not even a little(nm) - hefeweizen MU

- 11/5 09:06:41

That's disappointing (nm) - pickle MU

- 11/5 09:16:40

I would suspect that you are on the mark with all of those.(nm) - DHighlander NWMSU - 11/5 08:47:42

what about raising min wage - El-ahrairah BAMA - 11/5 08:46:26

I'm only marking 3 spots tomorrow. Yes on 2, No on D, and - hefeweizen MU

- 11/5 08:58:59