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To: Road Walker who wrote (733967)	8/21/2013 4:26:55 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1576622

RW, Double the minimum wage Steve. Those folks will be motivated to work, and they'll pay taxes. Why would they be motivated to work if they're making double the minimum wage in welfare benefits? Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (733967)	8/21/2013 5:31:15 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576622

Notice how the conclusion is that benefits are too generous? You probably can find corner cases where this is true. But that is far from being common. Take SNAP for instance. In Texas at least, if there are no minor children, you are only eligible for 3 months out of every 12. This is true of many of the programs in question. They are far from a lifelong free meal ticket.

To: Road Walker who wrote (733967)	8/21/2013 5:57:19 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB joseffy Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576622

>> Double the minimum wage Steve. Those folks will be motivated to work, and they'll pay taxes. Might cost a little more for your Big Mac but you'll survive. And we'll have a better society. If you double the minimum wage, e.g., make hiring more expensive, there will be no jobs available. A great example is the liberal news magazine, Slate, which a few weeks ago came under criticism for its unpaid intern program (after they criticized Walmart for paying only 1.5x the minimum wage). Slate said, "Oh, we're sorry. That was a mistake. So, effective immediately, we're going to pay our interns minimum wage." Sounds great. EXCEPT, they added parenthetically, "But instead of hiring 12 interns, we will hire only 10." That's the problem with minimum wage. If you increase the cost of hiring you're going to get less hiring. Just as Slate found when they tried to accommodate the complainers ...

To: Road Walker who wrote (733967)	8/22/2013 8:42:43 AM
From: steve harris	3 Recommendations Recommended By FJB joseffy TideGlider Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576622

Sounds good John. But how'd that last minimum wage hike work out for everyone? Tell you what, you can double the minimum wage if you take away welfare for everyone in better health than I am. Deal?

To: Road Walker who wrote (733967)	8/22/2013 3:09:27 PM
From: steve harris	1 Recommendation Recommended By joseffy Respond to of 1576622

While you're doubling the minimum wage, can you get Obama to order UPS not to dump employee spouses onto Obamacare? Maybe send his attack dog Holder over to UPS and harass them? Of course Holder may be too busy suing Texas and Arizona over them enforcing federal laws the current administration is not enforcing. This nonsense is predictable and was posted before Obamacare was passed.

To: Road Walker who wrote (733967)	9/14/2013 12:13:32 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576622

>> Double the minimum wage Steve. Those folks will be motivated to work, and they'll pay taxes. What about those whose labor isn't worth that much? What should THEY do? Because if the minimum wage is $20, anyone who isn't worth that (that's a lot of people) is out of a job, for the rest of their lives. You think that's fair?