Bill O'Reilly agrees with President Obama to increase minimum wage

[southwind]

Survival of the fittest huh?

if you or your family gets sick, what then?

I am sure you will never accept, or ask for any help for any Governmental entity.

 
BaRack-O-Care is here to save the day, if your family gets sick!

 

[Dog Wonder]

If your family gets sick, you will imagine a new one.

 

[700UW]

 

[cltrat]

I'm a fiscal conservative and I have no issues raising the minimum wage

 

[700UW]

Thats good.

 

[eolesen]

What GAP is doing is how it should work -- let competition in the marketplace decide what the floor should be, not some politician who doesn't have to live with the impact.

If it eliminates 25-30% of the people on welfare, most conservatives wouldn't oppose a higher minimum wage. We just have zero confidence or assurance that the bar for welfare won't continually be raised commensurate with the minimum wage.

 

[700UW]

Amazing that right wingers dont get the concept if you raise wages, the money spent on assistance will go down.

 

[Black Magic]

Amazing that right wingers dont get the concept if you raise wages, the money spent on assistance will go down.

Why don't you start a business selling peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and pay the employees $10 an hour to watch the business close its doors for good.

I keep hearing a lot of dumacrats demanding to raise the minimum wage but none willing to start a business to pay employees that amount.

 

[700UW]

Is Bill O'Reilly a democrat?
 
News to me!

 

[Black Magic]

You fell for the bait big boy. Ol Bill says things like that from time to time to break thru and attract some new dumacrat audience viewers.

 

[traderjake]

Is Bill O'Reilly a democrat?

 
O'Reilly is a RINO.

 

[xUT]

Amazing that right wingers dont get the concept if you raise wages, the money spent on assistance will go down.

Well, IMHO, you are an ID-10T,
This is a round-robin effect.
Raise wages and prices rise to match wage increases, when it becomes unsustainable, small businesses close.
Minimum wage increases doesn't hurt the conglomerates as much as 'Mom-N-Pop' stores that are barely surviving today.
As people go out of business, more unemployed living on the dole.
 
Just like the Gooberment, they pass laws that are nonsensical in the the name of 'conservation' but cause more harm than just managing simple recycling processes that are in law previously.
 
You do know that there are biodegradable plastic take out bags available today!
Then why eliminate 'all' plastic take out bags?
Ignorance and politics!
 
You once stated that you are running your own business, how many union members do you employ?
B) xUT

 

[700UW]

Wow, start your post off with name calling and you lose all credibility.
 
Go back and show me with every increase that has ever happened that it cost jobs.
 
And why did no one make an issue when it was raised under Bush?
 
You do realize $7.25 is poverty level?

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Amazing that right wingers dont get the concept if you raise wages, the money spent on assistance will go down.

Amazing that left wingers don't get the concept, if you raise wages, costs go up, followed by prices.

 

[700UW]

Still waiting for someone to post how an increase in minimum wage cuts jobs.
 
You wont, and as fair as increases your wrong again.
 

Minimum Wage Hikes Do Not Cause Inflation
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14050
 

5 facts about the minimum wage
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/12/04/5-facts-about-the-minimum-wage/
 

 

No Employment Effects
A team of economists, led by Arindrajit Dube of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, compared employment levels in contiguous areas with disparate minimum-wage levels over a 16-year period and concluded in a 2010 paper there are “strong earnings effects and no employment effects of minimum wage increases.”
The federal minimum wage was always meant to be a floor, not a ceiling. Today, someone earning the minimum would have to work 749 hours to afford one year of health insurance premiums and 923 hours to afford a year’s tuition at a public four-year college.
 
Although this math may not be persuasive in Washington, it does seem to be influencing legislatures across the country. Let us hope that states lead the way on the minimum wage, and that they tie increases to the cost of living, making endless rounds of legislation unnecessary. Then let us hope that fresh research and improved lives built on hard work compel Congress to follow.
 
 
 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-16/u-s-minimum-wage-lower-than-in-lbj-era-needs-a-raise.html