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minimum wage is a wage floor

Posted on: November 5, 2018 at 09:37:27 CT
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and anyone with even a simple understanding of economics would know that setting such a floor only dooms those job holders to poverty because of the inflation those wage floors cause. Their value in the workforce is forever deemed as "minimum wage worthy" giving them (and their jobs) virtually no upward mobility.
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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




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