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Originally Posted by bhkad
He plans to raise the minimum wage to $9.50/hr. by 2011.
How will small businesses be able to withstand what would turn out to be a nearly 85% increase in the minimum wage in a span of just five years?
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1) How about being honest and taking the "increase" number from what Obama's ACTUAL starting point is, instead of taking into account increases that were put into effect WHILE BUSH WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE???
2) All these years the businesses have been taking advantage of the constant minimum wage with the dollar value changing over time...
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html
Adjusting for a constant dollar, in 1978 we had $6.27.
In 2006, $4.04.
And people like you are complaining over every nickel the employer SHOULD give up to help reflect a REAL minimum wage.
You IGNORE the times that the employers get the benefits, but complain when its time to give them to the employees.
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Originally Posted by bhkad
And then there is this.
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To which I reply with this...
http://www.politicalwrinkles.com/ope...s-mr-bush.html
MOST people will get tax CUTS. Not tax increases.