Scott Walker says denying poor people health care coverage helps them "truly live the America dream"

[ksen]

Looks like one bookstore in SF is closing because the MW wage will be increased in three years.

http://www.breitbart.com/california...d-bookstore-closes-due-to-minimum-wage-hikes/

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inb4 samoan tuna cannerys

 

[KeepTalking]

Looks like one bookstore in SF is closing because the MW wage will be increased in three years.

http://www.breitbart.com/california...d-bookstore-closes-due-to-minimum-wage-hikes/

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That one is a bit fishy...

 

[lpetrich]

Basic economics says it's so. Your side never refutes this, just claims that business can't cut back on hours.

They don't need to refute a super simplified textbook model because that is all it is... a super simplified textbook model used to teach Econ-101.

What may be called spherical-cow economics.

Capitalist fundamentalists seem fond of that.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

And what you are missing is that all too often it amounts to "raising" those wages to $0/hr.

I guess I am missing it, because that is the exact opposite of a raise.

You know what, though? We can bring this out of the realm of economic theory, and into the real world if you would just give us one example of a business that was forced to close solely because of a raise in the minimum wage.

The ball is in your court, Loren.

Yeah, you're missing the fact that raising the minimum wage causes some people to lose their jobs.

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Looks like one bookstore in SF is closing because the MW wage will be increased in three years.

http://www.breitbart.com/california...d-bookstore-closes-due-to-minimum-wage-hikes/

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That SF "example" is nuts.

The canneries are about the only case where the effect was so big we could see it above the normal noise.