I'm getting kind of sick of going into the office every day... instead under your system I think I will 'campaign' for public office... from the beach, from my back yard, from the local amusement park with my kid... and let you and the other tax payers pick up some good portion of the tab.
Sound good?
You don't know how public financing of elections works, do you? You just typed what you thought would be a "real talk" comment without having a single clue as to the mechanism by which public financing of campaigns takes place.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you are a Trump supporter.
yeah, the reatard know that I'm close to my mom PC because of the mic... now her goal is to destroy xfce. look, SHIT (this is how I call the daughter of the croocked cop) stop using my mother against me. As I said, I was ignored all my life, the best thing I know how to do with anybody is how to easily reject anybody.
That's why we've been breaking record numbers on people on food stamps [trivisonno.com] since the last wage increase, right?
You dumbshit. When it was raised last, it didn't even go beyond the rate of inflation, so in fact, when the federal government raised it to $7.25, it was actually lower than it was in the 90s.
Oooh, magical! Let's do it every year then and we'll have a utopia!
You stupid sonofabitch. I bet you don't even realize that for most of the post WWII period, workers actually DID get raises every year. It's only because those raises have stopped that we need to be fiddling with the minimum wage at all.
But before making a statement like that, probably best to clarify whether you mean "indirectly invested in the markets via a pension fund that invests on your behalf" [pension/annuity] or "directly invested in the markets via 401(k) or IRA or other accounts in which the worker has an ownership interest."
Somewhere, there's a PR department working overtime today.
First, there was the story about how Chinese companies are laying off people and replacing their buck-two-eighty salaries with a robotic workforce, and ain't it great? Then, there's the press release from the former McDonald's official about how paying low-paid people an amount that is still below the poverty line is going to just destroy the economy, cause mass hunger and kill off all the kittens. Now, we have a story about how really people shouldn't mind losing their jobs to robots because they're going to make robots feel and lordamighty you don't want to hurt a robot's feelings now, do you
It's easy to read the Slashdot headline chicken innards and figure out which marketing campaigns are going into high gear. I think it's funny that PR flacks probably believe their jobs are immune to automation.
I didn't know that correlation implied causation in this case... hmmmm
I'm not saying that raising the minimum wage caused anything. I'm just saying we have proof that it did NOT cause higher inflation or unemployment or less economic growth.
The real answer is "correlation is not causation". And here in the real world in the twenty teens economic growth is stalling and the standards of living are flattening or dropping.
You say "correlation is not causation" at the same time you say, "Minimum wage hikes will cause unemployment, lower standard of living and inflation."
Correlation isn't causation unless it fits your worldview.
Seriously, do think it's cheaper to pay an employee minimum wage for manual labor for 8 hours a day, or do you think it's cheaper to be responsible for your employee's, food, housing and medical care?
And now you've accidentally discovered the truth about our "free market economy". Minimum wage workers cost less than slaves.
In all seriousness, slavery had to end and, IMHO it would have ended, if perhaps on a slightly longer timeframe, anyway
A little historical perspective: at the time of (and during) the Civil War, the Confederacy was expanding slavery and attempting to expand it to countries in Central and South America.
I know it's conventional wisdom to say that "slavery would have ended anyway", but few people can say how it would have ended.
Did people just start making more money at their existing jobs, without an increase in cost of living?
The answer is yes. In every single case (22 times) where the federal minimum wage was raised by law, economic growth and standards of living went up faster than inflation. Every single time.
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I'm thinking a Trump presidency will be very kind to my ilk.
Do you know how many signatures it takes to get on a statewide ballot? I don't think "some friends" is going to cut it. For you.
You don't know how public financing of elections works, do you? You just typed what you thought would be a "real talk" comment without having a single clue as to the mechanism by which public financing of campaigns takes place.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you are a Trump supporter.
Where have you been?
Trump 2016
Because the term, "pro-life" really doesn't have any meaning. What life? Whose life? Just human life or does it cover viruses?
I find "pro-reproductive rights" and "anti-reproductive rights" to be more accurate and less inflammatory.
If you can't be bothered to highlight and search, then I doubt you'll be capable of reading and understanding any citation.
You dumbshit. When it was raised last, it didn't even go beyond the rate of inflation, so in fact, when the federal government raised it to $7.25, it was actually lower than it was in the 90s.
You stupid sonofabitch. I bet you don't even realize that for most of the post WWII period, workers actually DID get raises every year. It's only because those raises have stopped that we need to be fiddling with the minimum wage at all.
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Don't worry. When I'm president we're going to have the best caps. Tremendous, tremendous caps. The smartest caps, not stupid caps.
I'm pretty sure by high school they'll find other more engaging ways to get that endorphin release.
These kids are too young for that kind of sex education.
Jobs have been getting automated since the Industrial Revolution. "Robot" is just a buzz word.
I mean both.
In this case, he is a robot.
Somewhere, there's a PR department working overtime today.
First, there was the story about how Chinese companies are laying off people and replacing their buck-two-eighty salaries with a robotic workforce, and ain't it great? Then, there's the press release from the former McDonald's official about how paying low-paid people an amount that is still below the poverty line is going to just destroy the economy, cause mass hunger and kill off all the kittens. Now, we have a story about how really people shouldn't mind losing their jobs to robots because they're going to make robots feel and lordamighty you don't want to hurt a robot's feelings now, do you
It's easy to read the Slashdot headline chicken innards and figure out which marketing campaigns are going into high gear. I think it's funny that PR flacks probably believe their jobs are immune to automation.
I'm not saying that raising the minimum wage caused anything. I'm just saying we have proof that it did NOT cause higher inflation or unemployment or less economic growth.
You say "correlation is not causation" at the same time you say, "Minimum wage hikes will cause unemployment, lower standard of living and inflation."
Correlation isn't causation unless it fits your worldview.
And that brings us right back to the inevitable libertarian bottom line:
"Killing people is a solution".
Here's exactly what you said:
And now you've accidentally discovered the truth about our "free market economy". Minimum wage workers cost less than slaves.
Isn't it grand?
A little historical perspective: at the time of (and during) the Civil War, the Confederacy was expanding slavery and attempting to expand it to countries in Central and South America.
I know it's conventional wisdom to say that "slavery would have ended anyway", but few people can say how it would have ended.
The answer is yes. In every single case (22 times) where the federal minimum wage was raised by law, economic growth and standards of living went up faster than inflation. Every single time.
Please tell us: how are robots customers?