Quote:The idea behind raising the minimum wage is, that the more money people make, the more they will spend which will stimulate the economy...Take walmart for example...walmart here is basically the only place to shop other than local mom and pop shops...So when they pay their employees, they generally cash their checks right there and then do their shopping...If they had more money in their paycheck, they would spend more shopping...Or they would buy more gas to go to other nearby townships to target or other stores, or eat out more...The end result is supposed to be if americans make more money they will spend more and the economy will improve

That's more of a side effect than a root cause. The root cause is that politicians recognize that more and more of their voters are falling into that low income bloc, and they're pandering to those people to keep their votes.

 

Quote:It doesn't become $15 an hour until 2021.   This year, it becomes $11 an hour.  

Screw it, I'm moving to Seattle.

 

Quote:$11 an hour that requires next to no skill.. awesome..


You know what this country's problem is? It's this generation. Everyone wants everything handed to them instead of them working hard for it and actually earning it..

As a member of "this generation", I kind of resent that remark. I've worked hard to build up what I have, and I'm proud of it. Either I keep the best kind of group of friends, or "this generation" isn't as bad as it's made out to be. We all put in lots of work to get to where we are, and haven't looked for handouts along the way. There are slackers who want to do as little work as possible for as much money as they can get in every generation, and it seems like each generation goes out of its way to whine and moan about the generations that follow it. In ten years, I'm sure I'll be griping about how the generation after mine is full of nothing but slackers and losers who look for handouts rather than earning it when, in truth, it's a small but prominent subset of that generation responsible for that.

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