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Originally Posted by Relentless
Why guess when you can know the actual answer?
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I suppose we will know the answer that way.
But of course anybody who runs a business knows that if costs go up...so does the cost of the product and/or you try to cut cost some other way (automation and less employees).
Also different areas will be different. Just like they are now.
People working at McDonalds in oil boom towns in North Dakota already make a high hourly wage.
And people living in a small town that isn't booming don't make that much.
Meanwhile McDonald's workers in NYC already made more than the ones in the small town.
Cost of living, location, etc.
But nope...let's put a "one size fits all" on this. That's worked so well for our govt.
And while we're at it...Pres. Obama is calling for the minimum wage to be raised nationally. That would be the same Pres. Obama who never ran a business in his life AND who's administration has overseen the Federal deficit going up from 9 Trillion dollars to over 18 Trillion dollars.
Politicians who run nothing BUT debt and never worked real jobs and bankrupt the country...probably not the best ones to be forcing companies to try out their theories on how stuff "should" work.
Meanwhile, let's "test" this. And to hell with the possible consequences to real live people. Maybe it'll all work out! Or maybe not. In real life that isn't so pretty.
But what's a few million more on foodstamps anyway?
