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Originally Posted by Goofle
And what's naive about understanding that a lot of people are poor due to their own life decisions?
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You know what's naive about this statement? You don't realize that the jobs just aren't out there. People go off to college do their four years and still aren't able to get a job so they flood the service industry to get something so they can get by. There are people with Master's degrees working fast food and it isn't for a lack of trying. There just isn't enough jobs out there and they need something in the mean time. Your idea/opinion about this is so naive and unrealistic based off of the current economic situation. Sure there might be a few people that ****ed up in life and made the wrong decisions but if you look at the stats. The numbers are way too large for that same situation to apply to everyone.
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Originally Posted by Goofle
That's true, many companies are giving employers fewer hours and 0-Hour contracts. Something that would only increase if there was to be a forced minimum wage that the companies would probably deem too high.
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The companies need to stop being greedy ****s and help out their employees that are making them record profits. They will deem it too high because it is starting to cut into their millions upon millions of profits they are making. They don't give a **** about the working poor.
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Originally Posted by Goofle
It's kind of like the increased taxes debate. It's not only a matter of raising the taxes of companies/entrepreneurs and funnelling that money back into the system, but what those companies do in reaction to it. Will they make that expansion, which will cost money and require workers? Will they decide to lay off staff to cover the uncreased taxes? These things aren't quite as simple as "Raise the minimum wage and everyone will be better off" or "Tax them more and we can put it back into the system".
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What you are talking about is leaning a bit towards supporting trickle down economics? If you feel the other side of the coin is any better. It's definitely not. Look how great that's been working out in the past!