[Runs into the telephone pole and takes out the power to your neighborhood]
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[Leaps out of the driver's window and runs away as the car explodes and the police arrive]
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{pouts} I wish I had a system that could play Gob Theft Auto V: The Bubble-Bubbling.
[Buzzes by the po-po in a new, well, different, 20 year old car]
Hey, toots, you wanna do some crimes? Hop in!
Sweet! Death to pinkskins!
Death to the pinkskins!!!
I think your bumper (with license plate attached) fell off while you were doing donuts on my lawn!
A few years back I picked up a 1986 BMW 325e for around $1,700. "e" Was the high mileage version of the series. 36 mpg on the highway from a torquey low revving 6 cylinder. That car ended up getting crushed while it was parked in the driveway on a beautiful sunny day. It was a weird summer where it rained almost every night and was hot and sunny every day. The trees were growing so fast they couldn't support their own branches.
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I think your bumper (with license plate attached) fell off while you were doing donuts on my lawn!
A few years back I picked up a 1986 BMW 325e for around $1,700. "e" Was the high mileage version of the series. 36 mpg on the highway from a torquey low revving 6 cylinder. That car ended up getting crushed while it was parked in the driveway on a beautiful sunny day. It was a weird summer where it rained almost every night and was hot and sunny every day. The trees were growing so fast they couldn't support their own branches.
I've had seen conversation with a police department after a party in college
"Hey, someone smashed up a few of the cars in the parking lot last night.
"Ok, Did you see what kind of car?
"No, but i got the liscense plate. The number is ABCD-123. New york plates with a downstate dealers border.
" .. you got all that but don't know what kind of car it is?
"Well I'm holding their front fender at the moment. They were nice enough to leave it behind.
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Seattle’s Socialist City Council Member Kshama Sawant Hails Historic Vote For $15/Hour Minimum Wage
And you thought that commie goblin on the rpg website was some lone crackpot?
We are f@@$ing legion.
Vive le Galt!
The President really does want to act on this stuff, but who are we kidding? He can't even declare a snow day without being accused of Communism.
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I agree with you.
Since, increasing the Minimum Wage would increase Unemployment, we should
also increase Taxes, so all the newly (and established) unemployed
people can receive (more) government benefits.
Then, when the economy tanks, we can print $100 bills and hand them out
(all it takes is ink and paper) and then everyone can get money for free.
Next, the government should grow food and give it to us for free.
But, Corporations do not want this and didn't give permission for
Minimum Wages to be increased! (Dad!!! Mom!!! Come on, give us more
money.)
Also, Health Care should be free, because we are all people and love
each other.
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Hey! Those are my lines!
Since, increasing the Minimum Wage would increase Unemployment...
Not seeing this.
"Since increasing the amount of sunlight reaching the earth would cause an increasing number of clones of Justin Bieber to appear, we should..."
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Since, increasing the Minimum Wage would increase Unemployment...Not seeing this.
"Since increasing the amount of sunlight reaching the earth would cause an increasing number of clones of Justin Bieber to appear, we should..."
You are not seeing it because you do not understand how businesses think. to raise wages they need to raise prices, lose money or lay off workers and get more out of those that are left. If you think very many would choose options one or two i got a bridge to sell you
to raise wages they need to raise prices, lose money or lay off workers and get more out of those that are left.
In the short term, some managers might panic and lay people off, which would create an initial short-term increase in unemployment. But over the longer term, it might be that, with the formerly $9/hour people making $12/hour (or whatever), they've got an extra $6,000/year to spend, so they don't really mind a markup on unit prices. And with increased demand despite the price hikes, businesses would need to hire more people. Meaning that un3employment actually goes down, in the long run.
And this doesn't need to be a theoretical, non-determinite argument. Instead, we can figure out which one happens just by watching places like CA, CT, MD, WA.
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Except that all historical data - let me say that again for emphasis - all historical data says that "raising wages increases unemployment" is categorically false.
Not only false, but categorically false.
"If we end child labor, businesses will falter and the economy will die." - False.
"If we allow women into the work place, businesses will falter and the economy will die." - False.
"If we enact a forty hour work week..."
You get the picture.
All of these so-called "facts" about raising wages leading to unemployment have been proven - repeatedly - to be false.
Why do people continue to believe them? The facts are right there for anyone to see.
I mean, sure, you can have your opinions on how an economy should run, but (as so many people are so fond of saying) you don't get to have your own facts. And the facts of the matter prove that raising wages and providing for a strong middle class is actively beneficial to economic growth. Period.
LazarX I'll check that out later today if I get a chance. I'm on call so that may not happen, but thank you for the link. :)
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Common sense is what tells us the world is flat.
Common sense is what tells us the world is flat.
A science person said we have DN-Acid in our cells, but if they had acid in them, wouldn't our phones melt? Pff, science. :P