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On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 7:40:32 PM UTC-5, F. George McDuffee wrote:


The entire point of my post is that we are already paying

15$/hr (or more). The employer pays part, and the rest is

paid by local, state and federal taxes in the form of SNAP,

Mediaid, subsidized housing, etc.


But people are employed. The alternative is to not have people work and
pay all of the costs from local , state , and federal taxes.




Thus it would seem that both the progressives and neo-cons

should be in favor of forcing labor (and many other) costs

back on to the company books, albeit for different reasons.



The worst person to lie to is yourself...

You are lying to yourself when you think that raising the minimum wage
will reduce the cost to society. It will raise the cost to society by
reducing the number of workers.
Dan

Automation will advance regardless of what the minimum wage is. In the very
near future many manual
labor jobs will become obsolete, remember meter readers? The big question
that no one has an answer
for is what will all the displaced under educated workers do to earn a
living. The cost to society will be
great.

Best Regards.
Tom.