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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#192226: Jun 7th 2017 at 8:17:15 AM

[up] finally someone comes out admits it: the GOP hates poor people.

Although, the problem with a higher minimum wage, can be if companies increase their prices to keep the margin of profit the same, the people will be stuck in the same situation, with a higher minimum wage but decreased purchasing power. But that's not why she's objecting is it.

edited 7th Jun '17 8:23:22 AM by megaeliz

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#192227: Jun 7th 2017 at 8:20:47 AM

That only happens if increasing the labor cost of a product cause a 1:1 rise in the increase of the total cost. Which basically never happens, given that there are a lot of other factors in the final price. Increasing the minimum wage by X% might not result in a full X% increase in purchasing power, but it's not going to do nothing either.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#192228: Jun 7th 2017 at 8:22:22 AM

[up][up]Funny thing is it never seems to work out that way, because the increased buying power of the population makes up for the loss in profit margin because people can now buy more stuff. Rather than gouging one person for 30% profit, you can now gouge two people for 25%.

edited 7th Jun '17 8:22:32 AM by Kayeka

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#192229: Jun 7th 2017 at 8:24:44 AM

[up]I was just giving the common arguement against it. I personally think that we should increase it.

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Lost in Space
#192230: Jun 7th 2017 at 8:27:26 AM

Note that the "common arguments" against minimum wage increases are almost always disingenuous, because when you cite actual evidence that they work as intended, you get a lot of Moving the Goalposts.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#192231: Jun 7th 2017 at 8:33:05 AM

[up][up][up]

But as Jim Sterling (son!) once put it - "[companies] would rather make no money than some money, if they can't have all the money."

edited 7th Jun '17 8:39:03 AM by ironballs16

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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#192232: Jun 7th 2017 at 8:38:54 AM

... So nobody is interested in the possibility that Russia may have instigated the currrent feud in the Arabian Peninsula just to muck up the American government's interests in said region? Qatar hosts an American base that is important for aerial operations against Daesh, after all.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#192233: Jun 7th 2017 at 8:51:13 AM

Eric Trump saying "Democrats aren't people" makes me feel a tad nervous.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#192235: Jun 7th 2017 at 8:57:48 AM

[up]Let's see... maybe they want you so drunk, you don't ask about the price of their wings?

3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#192236: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:02:37 AM

It does seem unhealthy

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#192237: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:03:27 AM

And possibly a violation of local regulations...

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#192238: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:05:51 AM

Eric Trump saying "Democrats aren't people" makes me feel a tad nervous.
Why? It's just the logical conclusion of Republican propaganda, and it's not like Eric Trump has any power. I just don't see how it changes anything.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#192239: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:06:00 AM

Any unhealthier than reading Trump's tweets?

Kanasas legislature finally overrides Brownbacks veto, dismantling some of the tax cuts and spending cuts he made the center of his conservative doctrine.

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i'm tired, my friend
#192240: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:06:58 AM

Eric Trump saying "Democrats aren't people" makes me feel a tad nervous.

I'm pretty sure at least one person in the thread's said that about Republicans.

This is just how politics work in 2017. Your side is righteous, everyone else is Hitler. This is life now.

i'm tired, my friend
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#192241: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:07:02 AM

And several bars actually plan to open early, so you can drink Russian Vodka and eat FBI sandwiches, while watching the Comey testimony. This has the list.

https://amp.businessinsider.com/bars-open-early-for-comey-testimony-2017-6

edited 7th Jun '17 9:07:39 AM by megaeliz

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#192242: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:10:07 AM

Oh, what time is that testimony scheduled for?

i'm tired, my friend
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#192243: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:10:52 AM

More mood lightening, from the people who brought us the @PresVillain Twitter, we now have @SenatorWatcher, starting Marco Rubio as the Watcher.

IT IS WHAT IT IS — I AM FORBIDDEN TO INTERFERE! #SenatorWatcher #RubiotheWatcher https://t.co/gVWKgcFMVt

I was surprised — BUT I AM FORBIDDEN TO INTERFERE! #SenatorWatcher #RubiotheWatcher https://t.co/Sais0P2cjL

IT IS INEVITABLE NOW AND INESCAPABLE — I AM FORBIDDEN TO INTERFERE—! #SenatorWatcher #RubioTheWatcher https://t.co/K3zR239M1Z

edited 7th Jun '17 9:11:50 AM by sgamer82

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#192244: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:13:37 AM

I can't believe I use to like Bill Maher

Some keynotes: He wants to rescue Milo Yiannopoulos from his banishment

He wants to get rid of polio vaccines, despite him getting one, because polio has been going.

He thinks he, and no one else, will catch flack if he dates a woman much younger than him

Views on Islam. LOL

He's open minded about Le Pen

edited 7th Jun '17 9:19:26 AM by NoName999

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#192245: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:14:29 AM

[up][up][up]it's at 10:00 eastern time.

edited 7th Jun '17 9:15:05 AM by megaeliz

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#192246: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:15:16 AM

Ten bucks says the Comey hearing is going to be a massive anticlimax that will yield nothing interesting.

Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#192247: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:22:19 AM

[up]No bet, but a man can dream, non? I think of it as watching the lottery draw; Yeah, you're not going to win, but the billion-to-one chance is enough excitement to be entertained for a couple of minutes.

edited 7th Jun '17 9:22:29 AM by Kayeka

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#192248: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:27:28 AM

[up][up][up]AM or PM?

i'm tired, my friend
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#192249: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:28:47 AM

Bill Maher is a classic example of someone on the left who has a great number of character flaws yet still makes a great deal of sense when he talks. His attitude on Islam is regrettable, but he's one of those militantly outspoken voices that are going to trip on themselves from time to time.

I find myself agreeing with most of what he says and then he goes into something that makes say, "Huh?" I wonder if he's consciously trying to ape Bill O'Reilly.

edited 7th Jun '17 9:30:22 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#192250: Jun 7th 2017 at 9:31:08 AM

[up]Yeah, no. After watching another easily preventable measles outbreak Stateside a few weeks before Maher went on another Vaxxer rant, he can lose everything including the clothes off his back and I have zero sympathy.

edited 7th Jun '17 9:31:25 AM by ViperMagnum357


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