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Missouri GOP passes bill banning cities from raising their minimum wage
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OrangeGrayBlue
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I think you're being facetious, but in case you're not... that's not how any of this works.
Productivity would go way down and turn overs would go way up. It makes fiscal sense to pay people a living wage because then you don't waste money finding and training new employees when the ones you're currently underpaying inevitably leave for a better job.
And no, everybody doesn't win, because unemployment is already low and suddenly you would have a population that can't afford to buy any of your shit, so you go out of business in the process because you've decided to run your store as if you're a sociopath that never took an econ class.
theCalamity
Member
That's pretty smart! They wouldn't be able to live on that kind of wage at all, but at least they're working and that's all that matters.
I hope you're joking
Mechanized
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How are their heads not on pikes?
Username1198
Member
I like this thinking! Now we just gotta convince my landlord to drop my rent from 1300$ a month to 10$ a month!
Winning!
Obama
BoosterDuck
Banned
Nah, Clinton is the new Obama
GoutPatrol
Forgotten in his cell
Shadowy Obama-Clinton cabal.
capitalCORN
Member
They're both to blame. A white woman AND a black man. Don't disparage the right about variety now.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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Small government
George Washington
Member
Blame the voters that keep re-electing them. One would think in the digital age, people would be better informed to make better choices; nope.
Melkezadek
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People aren't being hyperbolic when they call the GOP evil. This is what they are.
How can anyone vote for these people? Do they pay attention to what they're doing at all? When they see this, do they really believe they are trying to make their lives better?
How can anyone vote for these people? Do they pay attention to what they're doing at all? When they see this, do they really believe they are trying to make their lives better?
I think that's where most idealists grossly overestimated the power of information. People that see the best in the world assume that access to tons of information will mean people will educate themselves and continue to seek out new information they don't know about and add to their knowledge. In reality, it turned out that once people had access to tons of information, they focused only on the comfortable and familiar that confirmed what they thought they knew, or wanted to believe, and ignored everything else because now there was so much visibly unknown out there, it was too intimidating.
But all those people making minimum wage are going to have their own successful business by next year at the latest! They're just protecting the interest of the ultra successful person they're going to be, and making sure they too can exploit the poor once their (hypothetical) riches start rolling in.
Wolf Dawgz
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Does Missouri also use FPTP, and is that map representing by how it's divided? If so, why is St.Louis basically just one riding, when it's the only big city in the area?This wouldn't piss off more of the smaller cities in the states that are red? I don't understand how poor Republicans are against raising the minimum wage.
For context, here is the 2016 election breakdown to see how the different areas lean
Not an American.
Dreadnought
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What the fuck
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Sarcasm
Phrozenflame500
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This is dumb. The biggest issue with the minimum wage is that it's applied too broadly, giving more local control over it is exactly what we want.
WeAreStarStuff
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I don't know how the GOP sleeps at night.
astroturfing
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why? aren't they the openly evil party?
Nothing1016
Member
Lol this has to be sarcasm. Because this isn't how it works at all.
hodayathink
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Is it bad that the first thing I thought was at least they didn't fuck over trans people at the same time? NC's "bathroom bill" was also a response to Charlotte raising their minimum wage.
SolarPowered
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On waterbeds full of democrat and working class republican tears.
All this information makes it just as easy for people to find groups and ideas that reinforce their current thinking. Stubborn people have less of a reason to think outside the box than ever if that is what they wish to do.
Team Alucard
Banned
The state-GOP in Iowa did the same thing earlier this year, lowering wages in the state's 3 largest cities.
GreenMonkey
Member
This is like the law we got in Michigan banning a tax on plastic bags at stores. (Specifically aimed at Ann Arbor, we're like a liberal blue bubble, along with Detroit, in a red state).
Republicans are for local control. Except when it is municpal broadband, the environment, minimum wage, right for LGBT, etc. Then all the sudden big government is absolutely needed.
Republicans are for local control. Except when it is municpal broadband, the environment, minimum wage, right for LGBT, etc. Then all the sudden big government is absolutely needed.
ScottSullivan
Member
Got this sucks, I feel for anyone in the city making 10 dollars an hour for a few months and then having it ripped away like that, how depressing
The Sum of Zero
Member
This happened in Alabama last year, too. Birmingham was set to raise the minimum wage, then Bentley and those twats in Montgomery pushed through a bill in record time banning all cities in the state from raising their minimum wage.
It's fucking bullshit.
It's fucking bullshit.
TheAtomicPile
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Small government conservatives at it again.
most of them would probably be down with nuking minimum wage altogether because f r e e d o m
MidgarBlowedUp
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I think part of that HB2 NC bill has something like this in it.
Unknown One
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You can be openly evil, but the degree of how evil they are always surprise me.
Professional Enthusiast
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Hahahahahahahahaha. I honestly dont even know how else to react to this cartoonish villainy. Holy fucking fuck, I wonder how the low income Republican voters feel about this shit? As long as this keeps minorities poor too right?
TangoAlphaLima
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It's called the supremacy clause, and it's pretty important to our government on a national level as well.
I don't agree with the policy applied in this case, but there's certainly a policy argument to be made that the state level government should have supremacy over the sub-governments beneath it.
The problem here is that the GOP is in charge and doesn't want progressive cities to address minimum wage on their own, despite minimum wage increases beyond the state or national requirement being an issue better handled at the local level.
Breh.
mugurumakensei
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For those joining us, Oblivion is being sarcastic.
Lord Frieza
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Is there no legal action to be taken here? The bill is clearly aimed at a certain area, feels like there should be some type of grounds here for some type of discrimination suit.
I live here and people have deluded themselves into thinking that raising wages will just cause massive inflation and that it is better to stick with the status quo than reach for the stars. I think Kansas City tried raising their income a couple years back and that got shut down too. But these same people don't seem to notice that the price for things keeps going up anyway so..