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@oats i dig your articles man keep making them.

I'll google later to see these huge hikes in minimum wage you speak of thats already happened. It is completely silly to pretend that it has a positive effect on small businesses tho when they have to pay their employees more on top of paying more in taxes to operate. Cutting taxes on mega corporations is whatever as well but we should be more focused on helping the small businesses.

I work for a dude who has 7 employees. The highest paid guy gets 24 an hour. I get 12 an hour, another 12 an hour, a 15 an hour, with the lowest guy making 10 an hour. No one gets minimum wage, and the owner was complaining about literally not paying himself last year because we only did 800k in business.

Now im no economist, but maybe you can explain how his business can survive if he has to pay everyone alot more money as well as pay more in taxes.

The only logical thing i can think of is raising the prices on the jobs we do to compensate which defeats the purpose, and if you think im going to stick around and work for 15 an hour doing back breaking work when i could be a wal mart greeter youd be wrong. So id need to make 20 an hour. The 24 an hour guy would need to make 45 an hour etc.

But hey maybe im wrong. I mean in the 70s the minimum wage adjusted for inflation is higher than it is now !!! Lol

But nah id love to see anything that makes it make sense.