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More cute babble. What were you saying about ad hominem attacks again?
Posted on: 2015/11/11 22:28
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Considering the individual asking the question is the same person that claimed sick time would cause unemployment... Well, economics isn't their (or your) strong suit.
Posted on: 2015/11/11 22:21
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It certainly is not a dumb question. The logic behind the answer can easily be applied to a $15 an hour rate. Where did this $15 number come from? Picked from a hat?
Posted on: 2015/11/11 22:14
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Singapore also has a very large welfare system to mask the issue with income being low. They have a subsidized national health service, give rebates for food, utilities and rent, and other big government benefits. At the same time though, there is more unrest over stagnant wages.
As for not answering the dumb question.. it's dumb, and a straw man at that.
Posted on: 2015/11/11 22:10
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No thanks... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Singapore
Posted on: 2015/11/11 21:56
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The point is that Vindication's question can be answered. Singapore is also a much better place to live than its surrounding neighbors. However, no one has tried to answer MDM's question.
Why not raise the minimum wage to $100?
Posted on: 2015/11/11 21:50
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Singapore's income distribution is shitty, and they have next to no worker rights. We should not aspire to living under shitty conditions because some people, somewhere else do so.
A minimum wage increase would result in next to no cost increase to consumers, and would lift millions of families out of poverty, as well ad allow them to provide for families without having multiple jobs, freeing some jobs for others as well.
Posted on: 2015/11/11 21:44
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Singapore does not have a minimum wage and their per capita income and living standards are on par with or better than America. Not saying this is the way to go, but this extreme is actually practical and can be beneficial. Whereas the "progressive" extreme is pure lunacy.
Posted on: 2015/11/11 21:31
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Then Christie is the one to blame for that. That issue has nothing to do with minimum wages. And again: It is deeply unfair to make everyone's day a little cheaper, by screwing the lowest-paid workers out of normal raises.
Posted on: 2015/11/11 21:28
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You can go to an extreme so why can't I go to the other extreme? If a minimum wage is so bad and a job killer, why not get rid of it and have employers be able to pay whatever they want to desperate workers? For example, why shouldn't Apple, a multi billion dollar company, be able to pay workers $2 an hour here in America to make iphones if unemployed workers (maybe the homeless, injured, or even our children! (lazy children) are willing to accept it? We would have 100% employment!
Posted on: 2015/11/11 21:27
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Is it, though...? Inherently, everyone made the same argument about sick time. The result was that every person that made said argument was wrong. When the minimum wage made the last jump, people claimed it would be a job killer... it didn't happen. This is certainly a larger leap, but to simply dismiss it out of hand when historical evidence doesn't actually justify the case you're trying to make seems a bit presumptuous.
Posted on: 2015/11/11 21:22
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This article from earlier this year gives a good insight into how someone "lives" off of the current minimum wage. I know republicans will always say it's a job killer but perhaps humanizing the issue will change GOP hearts?
Inside the Fast-Food Labor Protests - The New Yorker
Posted on: 2015/11/11 21:08
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A job killer, but a vote buyer.
Posted on: 2015/11/11 20:58
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Not all state workers pay into Social Security, some retired seniors live totally on their NJ pensions. Those pensions are frozen at 2011 levels under Christie. To say, this will not affect some people is wrong. Let's get some studies done on this, this is not a quarter or a dollar increase.
https://www.ssa.gov/planners/retire/stateandlocal.html
Posted on: 2015/11/11 20:35
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Why stop at 15? Make is $100 per hour!
Posted on: 2015/11/11 20:22
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Do you really wonder that...?
Posted on: 2015/11/11 20:19
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Really, you are are against minimum wage workers making more money? You really just come here to bitch about anything.
Posted on: 2015/11/11 20:18
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If wages go up, and this has any tangible impact on the cost of living, it will go into the COLA adjustments. By the way, the reason why seniors occasionally (and rarely I might add) don't get COLA increases is because in those years, the cost of living did not increase. Crazy huh? Quote: A $15.00 will double the cost of food and other services to that particular group. In 2015, the minimum wage in NJ is $8.38. That one dollar can of peas might cost $2.00 with this increase $15 increase. No, it won't. Not even close. Payroll is around 15% of a typical supermarket's total costs. At the absolute worst, that $1.00 can of peas might jump to $1.15. Realistically, the stores won't pass on all the costs to the consumer. You are also basically demanding that the poorest paid workers in our society work for less and less every year, in order to subsidize seniors. Maybe you ought to rethink that. I also wonder how much of your opposition is, frankly, connected to Fulop signing off on the proposal.
Posted on: 2015/11/11 20:01
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I'd love to see where you believe that a can of peas will double in price because the people selling it will make more per hour...
Posted on: 2015/11/11 19:51
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There is also the other side to the fight for $15.00. Seniors on fixed incomes will not receive a COLA increase from Social Security this year; if they are seniors receiving state pensions, they haven't received a COLA increase since 2011. A $15.00 will double the cost of food and other services to that particular group. In 2015, the minimum wage in NJ is $8.38. That one dollar can of peas might cost $2.00 with this increase $15 increase.
Posted on: 2015/11/11 19:43
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Fulop and the ‘Fight for Fifteen’As mayor angles for gubernatorial run, he pushes support of Working Family initiatives
Posted on: 2015/11/11 18:48
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