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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (473030)5/5/2021 12:33:04 PM
From: Wharf Rat1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 541791
 
"That makes it even more important to raise it to $15 in poor states, as that is the quickest way to raise the poverty level in those states. "

The quickest way to raise the poverty level is to put the employers out of work, cuz then they are also impoverished. The quickest way to decrease the poverty rate, which is what you meant to say, is by doing what we has been doing; handing out money to people (Yangbucks), and tinkering with the tax code. We apparently just cut the childhood poverty rate in half in the covid bill.

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"some businesses will suffer, the one's paying slave wages, but the over all good will greatly outweigh it, e.g. forcing all those corporations who exploit the poor to pay a living wage.

That's what you don't get; most employers aren't "those corporations". There aren't a lot of "those corporations" in small town America. How many do you see in this photo?



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