12-08-2013, 02:21 AM
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Originally posted by 4dognight
Got news for you OP, the "minimum wage" has NOTHING, again, NOTHING to do with a "living wage", "fair wage", or any other entitlement OWS crybaby nonsense. It is simply a tax revenue tool. Based on average unemployment stats over a given period of time, that number is "plugged in" so that the Fed/state tax collectors could figure out their baseline tax revenue from all employed wage earners.
As unemployment goes up, the economy suffers, less tax revenue. Instead of boosting the economy with tax breaks, what do they do? Raise the min. wage to make up for the shortfall.
Democrats LOVE to sell this idea as "compassionate" and "fairness". Yeah, let's stick it to the "rich" and middle class. Those that have worked hard and acquired skills so they WONT GET STUCK in entry level jobs end up paying for those waiting for someone to give them a life.
PLEASE OP, start your own business. Put in thousands of hours WITH very little pay, reinvest your profits back into your company to grow. Then when you absolutely can't do it by yourself any more, start hiring people like you. I GUARANTEE you will change your tune.
Self employed people, at least the vast majority that I have the pleasure of knowing, have not a drop of "entitlement" blood in their system. Same goes for those that have honed either their education or their skills to be not just employable, but highly sought after. This is what creates a strong economy, not those that want MORE for NOTHING.
There is a HUGE problem with this argument.
The people that make the most money in this country. Those that make $550 million a year. The 1%, those people rarely worked for anything. Yes, they may have gone to college, but the 1%, the people in charge they didn't work for anything. The vast majority of them were born into that money, or brotherhooded into those positions (Bloodlines fraternity etc.)
Its not like the CEO of walmart, worked his way up with a single mother raising 5 kids in a suburb in NYC, got educated and worked his way up from the mailroom. It doesn't work like that, though some extremist people would make you believe that the uber rich actually worked ofr their money.
The cold truth is, the Rothchilds, the Morgans,etc... they have been and will be in charge of this country, and trust me, those people earned their money being crooks, and still earn their money being crooks.
So lets not pretend any other way different.