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Poll to FReep: The Big Question: Should the federal minimum wage be raised?
Wisconsin Public Radio ^ | Tuesday, 7/24/2012 | Joy Cardin

Posted on 07/24/2012 6:00:44 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

Minimum Wage

The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, unchanged for the past three years. Do you think it should be raised?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: Wisconsin; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: joycardin; minimumwage; poll; wisconsinpublicradio
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The poll is a short ways down, in the middle of this page.

Currently:

Yes(68 Responses)67%

No(31 Responses)31%

Not sure(2 Responses)2%

Total: 101 respondents

1 posted on 07/24/2012 6:01:03 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck

if it gets raised, more people will lose their jobs, it should be abolished until thee depression is over


2 posted on 07/24/2012 6:04:05 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Hunton Peck

My answer wasn’t listed: Abolish the minimum wage.


3 posted on 07/24/2012 6:04:49 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: yldstrk

And, then, more people will be dependent on the government. Cowherd-Piven. I’m surprised that Zero doesn’t want to raise it to $25 an hour.


4 posted on 07/24/2012 6:11:50 PM PDT by Buddy Sorrell (No more Zero anymore!)
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To: Hunton Peck

Given the economy’s course in the last three years, the Minimum Wage should be lowered.


5 posted on 07/24/2012 6:13:55 PM PDT by upchuck ("Definition of 'racist:' someone that is winning an argument with a liberal." ~ Peter Brimelow)
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To: Hunton Peck

No is now ahead.


6 posted on 07/24/2012 6:16:23 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Hunton Peck

only if you think unemployment particularly for young blacks is too low!


7 posted on 07/24/2012 6:16:55 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Hunton Peck

FreeEEeeped:

The tide is turning...

Yes(78 Responses)
50%

No(77 Responses)
49%

Not sure(2 Responses)

Keep it going!!

1%
Tot


8 posted on 07/24/2012 6:18:43 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (The Road to Ruin is Always Kept in Good Repair)
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To: Proud2BeRight
Have I mentioned lately that FReepers rock?
9 posted on 07/24/2012 6:20:58 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (This too, shall pass, unless we're in Harry Reid's Senate and "this" is a budget.)
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To: fwdude
My answer wasn’t listed: Abolish the minimum wage.

There are not enough superlatives that I can use to indicate how totally I'm in complete, unalterable, decisive agreement with you on this. The minimum wage (and labor unions for that matter) are impediments to the machinery of the free market. In particular, the minimum wage is an anti-liberty artifice that sets a false bottom on the cost of services. Both the employer and employee are constrained from agreeing on a price. Simply put, the minimum wage is a latter-day form of slavery.

10 posted on 07/24/2012 6:23:37 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: Hunton Peck

That Public Radio station will get more votes than they have listeners.


11 posted on 07/24/2012 6:25:42 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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62% No
37% Yes

But only 243 votes so it doesn’t take much to move the results in either direction.


12 posted on 07/24/2012 6:43:51 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Hunton Peck

Even a person who can’t say no can answer this one correctly. Hell no. No brainer.


13 posted on 07/24/2012 6:49:06 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
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To: Hunton Peck

Yes(94 Responses)
35%
No(174 Responses)
64%
Not sure(2 Responses)
1%
Total: 270 respondents


14 posted on 07/24/2012 6:50:03 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: Hunton Peck
Should the federal minimum wage be raised?

Sure - do it right now. And make it effective immediately.

Call it 'The Obama Un-Affordable Entry Level Employee Act'.

That's probably the single best way to raise the unemployment rate in the short time left before the election.

Especially among black yoots.

/s


15 posted on 07/24/2012 6:55:39 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: Hunton Peck; 2ndDivisionVet; A knight without armor; Alexander Rubin; all the best; AmericaUnite; ..
Thanks to Hunton Peck for the post and ping!

FREEP THIS POLL ***PING!*** FRmail me if you want to be added or removed from the Fearless Poll-Freeping Freepers Ping list. And be sure to ping me to any polls that need Freepin', if I miss them. (looks like a medium volume list) (gordongekko909, founder of the pinglist, stays on the list until his ghost signs up for the list)

16 posted on 07/24/2012 7:05:11 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Hunton Peck

No 68%


17 posted on 07/24/2012 7:06:08 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Hunton Peck

Yes
(104 Responses)
30%
No
(245 Responses)
70%
Not sure
(2 Responses)
1%
Total: 351 respondents

Voted at 10:20pm EST


18 posted on 07/24/2012 7:17:55 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Hunton Peck

I still want to know who these “don’t know/not sure/don’t have a brain” idiots who vote in these polls are. This isn’t a push poll, so why should such numbskulls answer at all?


19 posted on 07/24/2012 7:22:21 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Hunton Peck
Do you think it should be raised?

Sure, if you want the unemployment rate to go higher.

5.56mm

20 posted on 07/24/2012 7:29:51 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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