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Originally Posted by Nebe
Not every child is planned.
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Then perhaps, just perhaps, if 2 adults don't make enough to pay for rent and food for themselves, they should be responsible enough not to have unprotected sex. And if the chose to be reckless, it's their responsibility (liberals have forgotten the meaning of that word) to work a bit harder and get one of the billion jobs that pays above minimum wage.
Eben, our economic universe cannot survive if the kid who collects my ticket at the movie theater, is guaranteed by law to make enough salary to raise a family and live above the poverty line. Do you want to pay $45 to see a movie because the kid who butters your popcorn is guaranteed by law to make $20,000 a year?
Liberals seem to be under the delusion that the government can just wave a magic and wand, and PRESTO! - we can all get paid a zillion dollars a year, and no one will be impacted by our federally mandated new wage.
Why can't liberals understand that when you increase the cost of doing business, one of two thing shappen. Either the business (1) passes on that cost to us, or (2) the business makes less money.
You don't have to go to the Wharton School Of Business to grasp this.
I don't get it. I can't understand how 50% of the country sees no harm in mandating that businesses must pay people more than the job is worth.
The value of anything, including the value of a menial job, is this...it is exactly what someone in the free market is willing to pay for it, no more, and no less. When governments intentionally mess with that equillibrium, bad things usually happen.
Sheesh.
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