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To: TimF who wrote (10503)	2/12/2017 2:22:44 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 365065

My bad. I mis-remembered the exact details of how the lower than federal minimum wage operated. I should have verified it, and I didn't. You verified nothing. You just made stuff up and speculated. And you still are. Instead of actual numbers, you continue to just through guesses out there. No we aren't. $19k were making under $7.25. I pointed this out at least once. I never once made the claim that all were being paid $2.65. So your straw man fails. But, of course, you don't stop there. That doesn't mean 19k (or even 1, although there probably were some) got a raise because the state increase. Both before and after the state increase there were exemptions in federal and state law that allowed for employees to be paid less than $7.25. Also its likely that some people lost their jobs or had their hours cut. We don't have any real figure about how many people got a raise. Well, according to that article, all of those 19k were making less than the federal minimum wage. Unless you want to claim they are lying. The rest is just you guessing based solely on your ideology. You are correct in that we don't have any real figures except that there were 19k below the federal minimum wage. It doesn't stop you from waving your hands and making stuff up. Like you always do. You could check your hypothesis by looking at the unemployment rate before, during and after the hike. But you are afraid that it would blow your guesswork out of the water. It is so much safer and easier to just spout off. Remember, you have contended that any increase in wages is going to cause unemployment and/or a slowing of the economy. So it should not matter if those 19k averaged $4 something increase or a nickel. If your thesis has any basis in reality, the effect should be measurable.