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$15 minimum wage amendment makes 2020 Florida ballot
The Orlando Sentinel ^ | December 19, 2019 | Steven Lemongello

Posted on 12/23/2019 8:22:00 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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1 posted on 12/23/2019 8:22:00 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Can’t produce more than $15/hr of value for your employer? cheaper to use a computer/robot? no work for you! sez Progressives.


2 posted on 12/23/2019 8:23:58 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Democrats oppose democracy.)
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To: 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Florida loves robots.

PING!


3 posted on 12/23/2019 8:24:09 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: 100American; SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; ...

Robot-loving Nanny State PING!


4 posted on 12/23/2019 8:24:42 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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Socialism in a nutshell. This hasn’t worked. Anywhere. There is plenty of data that $15 wage makes jobs disappear and leaves low-skill workers unemployed. But I guess they think “we didn’t have the right people in charge last time” or else “we’ll do it better next time” or something.


5 posted on 12/23/2019 8:24:53 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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It’s helped in my fast food consumption.

The lines here are so long now outside and in that I just gave up :)


6 posted on 12/23/2019 8:29:32 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Min Wage started at $.25 in 1938. Adjusted for inflation that would be $4.56 today.


7 posted on 12/23/2019 8:30:59 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This is a socialist agenda plot to crash the market! $15 bucks sounds awesome to your minimum layman worker...of course it would win at the ballot box if put up for a vote! Easy pickings!!


8 posted on 12/23/2019 8:32:44 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: ClearCase_guy

Must be an ivory-tower thing. They’re so high up, they can’t tell how low some people earnestly & honestly are.

Of late there was a story noting that, after decades of really truly trying to find jobs for _everyone_, our military has concluded (paraphrased) that anyone with an IQ under 83 is, really & truly, incapable (there just is no productive/useful work they can be relied on for). [This isn’t being insulting, it’s a reality check.]

Between that and $MinWage, there are people who _can_ do something useful, but - really & truly - are incapable of producing $MinWage work. These people are being unfairly (albeit perhaps unwittingly) targeted by ivory-tower Progressives for removal from the workforce. Being forbidden from earning anything, they must live off the State - assuming they’re competent to navigate that bureaucracy.


9 posted on 12/23/2019 8:35:49 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Democrats oppose democracy.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

In other words, after 2026 it will rise exponentially as a self-inflicted rise of the cost of living necessary to pay the artificially high wages.


10 posted on 12/23/2019 8:39:35 PM PST by Ingtar (Bedbugs, thy name is Democrat.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s an economic disaster.


11 posted on 12/23/2019 8:39:36 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Hmmmm. How many illegal immigrants are worth $15 an hour?


12 posted on 12/23/2019 8:39:45 PM PST by Rockingham
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They need to try being self employed like I am. They’d learn real fast what the minimum wage truly is ..........$0.00.


13 posted on 12/23/2019 8:49:07 PM PST by SWAMP-C1PHER (HOMO, OECONOMIA, ET CIVITAS.)
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Just go ahead and let voters vote for a wage of $100,000 per year. Guaranteed to pass.

Heck, why not just go for a million dollars a year. Guaranteed winner.

See your bid and raise it. Next...

Neal Boortz always said, when the taker class constitute 51% of the vote and realize they can vote to give themselves a raise, it’s all over. Campaigning politicians offering to give the most money are sure to win elections till the country is finally in ruins.

Way to go John. Maybe this is how we get there. What can go wrong?


14 posted on 12/23/2019 8:51:20 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Sweet Saint Skittles bounced dat ole white Craka head off da sidewalk causin he was real skeered.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Morgan and Morgan as I recall were the jerks who made a mint scaring the snot out of old people over every little void in the bedrock as if it was an imminent peril, a giant sinkhole, so they could litigate it , causing their clients’ neighbors to be unable to get insurance and screwing up their mortgages/loans.

They’re also pushing some gun B.S. ....anything to get the liberal dregs of society out to vote.


15 posted on 12/23/2019 9:00:51 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Sometimes i shock myself with all the smart things i say and do- other times I try to get out of the car with my seat belt still on


16 posted on 12/23/2019 9:01:47 PM PST by Bob434
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Would you like fries with that, sir?

How about no sick days, no Social Security match, no unemployment insurance?

17 posted on 12/23/2019 9:03:29 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation gets the government it deserves." -Joseph de Maistre)
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They don’t care whether it passes or not, M&M just wants to get the Democrat base motivated enough to come to the polls, and promises of pay raises, real or empty will do that. As will animal rights issues... they don’t care about the long term problems they create, all they want is turnout.


18 posted on 12/23/2019 9:04:12 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: ctdonath2

Wal-Mart already has over 50% of checkout lines as automatic, they have automatic aisle scanners, and automatic floor cleaners.


19 posted on 12/23/2019 9:08:15 PM PST by LukeL
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

McDonald’s will just continue to automate. They are already installing kiosks where you can order on your own without encountering an employee.


20 posted on 12/23/2019 9:08:26 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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