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Originally Posted by arock10
I'm just saying raise the min wage a few bucks to bring it in line with cost of living increases. I don't care if its the easiest job ever, the minimum wage has been in decline since the 1970s.
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But isn't one of the factors of cost of living increases caused by higher wages?
Fuel costs and higher wages are what drive that. I bought a coca cola at the 7-11. It was $1.89 for a single coke!
That same coke was 5 cents when I was a kid. And 20 cents when I was a teenager.
What "magic" happened that caused it to go up in price? Laws of economics say that when something is mass produced and sold it goes DOWN in price. But yet...that coke is outrageously priced.
I don't know how a kid can go to the store anymore and have a soda at those prices.
The cost of living just magically went up I guess. No reason. It just goes up....at least that's what the politicians seem to want us all to believe I guess.
Or could it be factors like the GOVT. printing so much money that the value of the dollar has dropped like a rock? Coupled with union demands, the cost of fuel to transport the product...and you have a 5 cent soda being sold for almost 2 bucks.
Must be McDonalds or Walmarts fault.
