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Could raising the minimum wage prevent thousands of suicides?
CBS "News" ^ | January 10, 2020 | By Aimee Picchi

Posted on 01/10/2020 6:33:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A tard asking a tard idiotic question......................omfg.


81 posted on 01/10/2020 9:17:23 AM PST by cranked
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yet another example of an industry (the mass propaganda industry) that depends on a public that is ignorant, not only about economics, but about the difference between a (possible) correlation and causation.

This is akin to saying that flies cause garbage, because where ever you see piles of smelly garbage, you see lots of flies.

So if you're a leftist, it's safe to assume that the flies cause the garbage!

Mark

82 posted on 01/10/2020 9:28:49 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just make every Lotto Ticket a winner.


83 posted on 01/10/2020 9:30:07 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nope, it would increase them. Ever notice how many athletes, those with college educations, get in trouble with all their money and end it all even though that OD was called a mistake? Remember Robin Williams?

And the higher taxes would take the increase away thus further confusing the improvement the minimum wage employee thought they were going to get. They’d either consider life over or go back to their parents basement to play videos games until they or their parents die and the house is sold. And time won’t remember them anyway.

rwood


84 posted on 01/10/2020 9:31:58 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: NobleFree

Not very long, because the unskilled work is already too much for the employees who are already on 20 hours or less and not receiving any benefits. If the minimum wages go up, employees will be overall just let go, and the unskilled businesses will just shut down.


85 posted on 01/10/2020 10:35:39 AM PST by imardmd1 (I'M A ReDeeMed 1 [Ps. 107:2])
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To: Cowboy Bob

Would probably make the suicide rate worse, when they can’t get jobs at all.


86 posted on 01/10/2020 11:13:57 AM PST by Bethaneidh
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To: central_va
Raising the minimum wage has had no effect on employment rate. .

Impossible to know because there is no way to ascertain how many jobs weren't created because the minimum wage deterred the potential employer from creating them.


87 posted on 01/10/2020 11:20:15 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Redwood71

My grandmother told me that when the Great Depression hit it was the wealthiest people who were jumping out of windows.

She and her Joe Six-Pack Irish clan made it through just fine.


88 posted on 01/10/2020 11:21:33 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills update.

You know what *might help*?!? Raising taxes, cutting tariffs, making sure infanticide is available everywhere, and making sure guns aren't! /s

89 posted on 01/10/2020 11:36:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Why stop at $100/hr? Raise it to $1,000/hr and eliminate suicides altogether.

Wonder how unemployment effects the suicde rate?


90 posted on 01/10/2020 11:39:10 AM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What utter BS based purely on sloppy conjecture.


91 posted on 01/10/2020 3:59:47 PM PST by fwdude (Poverty is nearly always a mindset, which canÂ’t be cured by cash.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The only good thing about the great depression was that it put everyone in their individual brackets on a more equal scale as the entire country was leveled. I was effected with my raises (?) in the military as just as soon as the wages went up, the cost of living went up just a little bit more.

An example is apartment rental. If the wages went up 2.5%, the rent went up 3%. And everything seems to pile on. Cost of food, housing entities like electric, gas, trash collection, and phone went up consistent with the rent. And as everything went up, the raise actually made you insolvent with more money. So is it s raise or a trap. And the libs say you’re making more money than you ever did. And you’re being forced to spend it to break even.

rwood


92 posted on 01/10/2020 6:53:59 PM PST by Redwood71
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