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Seattle Socialist Party Wants $20 Per Hour Minimum Wage, Offers $13 Per Hour For Website Manager
The Daily Caller ^ | 10/17/14 | Eric Owens

Posted on 10/17/2014 10:46:30 AM PDT by Enlightened1

A socialist party that wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $20 per hour is currently advertising a job for an experienced web developer paying $13 per

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 20; hour; minimumwage; seattle; socialist; washington
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To: Freestate316

“skilled worker making $20 an hour, he won’t be happy when the unskilled worker is making the same pay.”

Sure he will, haven’t you heard of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need”, that always works.


21 posted on 10/17/2014 11:45:39 AM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: Enlightened1

Surprise..they don’t WANT to pay 20/hour...but THEY WANT others to, thou...


22 posted on 10/17/2014 11:53:24 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Enlightened1
"Are you crazy? We can't afford $20 an hour!"
23 posted on 10/17/2014 11:55:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: cripplecreek

$30 to $40 an hour...


24 posted on 10/17/2014 11:57:23 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: ExCTCitizen

Why stop there? Why not just make it $100 an hour, or make it a million dollars a year and we will all be millionaires, right?
Oh heck, lets just make it a billion an hour, right?
-s-

I wonder if these economic masterminds think that hamburgers will still be what they are today? Asking for a raise, and a big one at that is one thing... But Simple math and attempting to balance the books every day has a realism that they seem to lack.


25 posted on 10/17/2014 12:19:42 PM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: Enlightened1

Even a drugged up Lindsay Lohan knows that is hypocritical.

26 posted on 10/17/2014 3:04:22 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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