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Entrepreneur: Boost Calif. wages to $12-an-hour
AP ^ | 12 JANUARY 2013 | MICHAEL BLOOD

Posted on 01/12/2014 10:48:56 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democrats across the nation are eager to make increasing the minimum wage a defining campaign issue in 2014, but in California a proposal to boost the pay rate to $12 an hour is coming from a different point on the political compass.

Ron Unz, a Silicon Valley multimillionaire and registered Republican who once ran for governor and, briefly, U.S. Senate, wants state voters to endorse the wage jump that he predicts would nourish the economy and lift low-paid workers from dependency on food stamps and other assistance bankrolled by taxpayers.

A push for bigger paychecks for workers at the lower rungs of the economic ladder is typically associated with Democrats — President Barack Obama is supporting a bill in Congress that would elevate the $7.25 federal minimum to over $10 an hour.

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"See, see evil right-wingers! A Republican supports a higher minimum-wage, so we ALL need to get on board so we can save the Democrat's ass in 2014 and achieve Utopia!"
1 posted on 01/12/2014 10:48:56 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Keep minimum wage exactly where it is at.

However, bring back American jobs now.


2 posted on 01/12/2014 10:51:02 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This man is not a conservative or libertarian, he is a fool


3 posted on 01/12/2014 10:52:02 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Wow, Unz is a retard. This is the dumbest thing I have ever read. He should call it the Illegal Alien Full Employment Act of 2014.
4 posted on 01/12/2014 10:55:16 AM PST by montag813
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Why not boost the California minimum wage to exactly the same hourly rate earned by California legislators.


5 posted on 01/12/2014 10:56:19 AM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I have no problem with California doing this and seeing if it works. I’ll be watching from out of state though.


6 posted on 01/12/2014 10:56:45 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: GeronL

Do you remember the campaign to pass Prop 187? Our attempt to do something about the flood of illegals inundating California?

Ron Unz supported the illegal aliens in that fight. There’s a great picture of him giving a speech surrounded by a sea of Mexican flags.


7 posted on 01/12/2014 10:59:09 AM PST by Pelham (Obamacare, the vanguard of Obammunism)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Business will respond in one of two ways with an increase in minimum wage (or do both). Fire someone or increase prices.

The net effect of increasing minimum wage with out an increase in production is more unemployment and higher prices.

Really the only ones that benefit from increasing minimum wage are unions, especially government employee unions since they are free from all normal economic restraints.


8 posted on 01/12/2014 11:00:11 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I do not doubt that our climate changes. I only doubt that anything man does has any effect.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

As soon as union scum are all pushed into the oceans, American competitiveness will improve.


9 posted on 01/12/2014 11:00:21 AM PST by dinodino
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

If jobs and upward mobility are the golden “eggs,” then when foxes are in charge of the hen house, egg production will soon become nonexistent.


10 posted on 01/12/2014 11:01:54 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Businesses are likelier to fire all their employees and start using contract work or learn new skills to run their businesses themselves for effectively.


11 posted on 01/12/2014 11:02:00 AM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: Pelham

bump

Another fake Republican, no doubt the media and this reporter knew all of that before they wrote this propaganda tripe


12 posted on 01/12/2014 11:03:29 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Keep minimum wage exactly where it is at.

However, bring back American jobs now.

Eliminate the minimum wage and create jobs even faster.

A guy living in West Monroe, Louisiana doesn't want or need to make the same minimum wage as a guy in Noo Yawk City.

And think of all the high schoolers who would love a part time job after school...but the minimum wage prevents that.

13 posted on 01/12/2014 11:04:19 AM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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So in order to fight “unions” (a very small portion of America’s workforce anymore) we send jobs to for example...

The PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA?

The largest union in history?

Sure. I’m following that plan. You betcha.


14 posted on 01/12/2014 11:05:19 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

One thing is for sure - if we’d just handed the cash to poor people starting in the 60s instead of wasting trillions as we’ve done on social engineering welfare programs, it would have done more good.


15 posted on 01/12/2014 11:05:20 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I want minimum wage at 3 mexican pesos so these lazy turds on the govt dole would finally get off their asses, use their brains, and get an actual job. It’s not my fault you ask me which combo size of burgers I want..


16 posted on 01/12/2014 11:05:56 AM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: CIB-173RDABN
The Cato Institute has a great piece on Mike Rowe and his focus on the skills gap in America.

Today's teens are no longer mowing lawns, shoveling snow, or starting at the bottom. They've been indoctrinated to go to college and achieve some worthless degree in diversity or gender studies.

Rowe said there's actually tons of jobs available but these jobs no one wants to do because they think its beneath them or they don't have the basic skills to do them.

17 posted on 01/12/2014 11:08:53 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (15 years of FReeping! Congratulations EEE!!)
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To: GeronL
This man is not a conservative or libertarian, he is a fool

He does not realize that labor costs are a Major part of product costs. Once you raise minimum wage, retailers will have to raise their prices, the government will recalculate the poverty level because everything is more expensive and we will be right back where we started.

18 posted on 01/12/2014 11:09:30 AM PST by oldbrowser (discriminating against a culture is not racism.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Reason.com, not Cato Institute.


19 posted on 01/12/2014 11:09:47 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (15 years of FReeping! Congratulations EEE!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Minimum wage in CA is currently at $8 per hour. July 1 it jumps to $9 per hour. Jan 1, 2016 it jumps to $10 per hour. We are getting to $12 just a little slower.


20 posted on 01/12/2014 11:12:56 AM PST by Conservative4Ever (Happy New Year 2014)
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