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phantom power

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7. It would be a great teachable moment for conservatives, but we already did this experiment

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Wed Feb 26, 2014, 10:17 AM

Feb 2014

We already know what society without a minimum wages is like. In history books we call it The Gilded Age, and it fucking sucked for everybody except the super-rich. Which ought to sound kind of familiar.

For very similar reasons we also know what a society without Social Security, Medicare, Food stamps, the FDA, the EPA, a regulated financial industry, and free public education, etc.... is like.

It sucked for everybody except the super rich.

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RWNJ Kevin O'Leary on CNBC: "Let's take a state, and remove the minimum wage for a year." [View all] HughBeaumont Feb 2014 OP

Let's increase the minimum-wage for a year. DetlefK Feb 2014 #1

If a company wants to pay someone $5 a year. It's perfectly fine. Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2014 #2

Reagan infected this country with terminal stupidity ... GeorgeGist Feb 2014 #3

that is the sad truth. Warren Stupidity Feb 2014 #4

There was a poll in a local paper here in Wheeling WV, now this is one of the poorest doc03 Feb 2014 #5

Wow. HughBeaumont Feb 2014 #6

It would be a great teachable moment for conservatives, but we already did this experiment phantom power Feb 2014 #7

Won't work. Modern Libertarians and Republicans thought The Gilded Age was a utopia. HughBeaumont Feb 2014 #9

Let's take a corporation deutsey Feb 2014 #8

Kevin O'Leary is an idiot laundry_queen Feb 2014 #10

His HS tuition at St. George was $14,000/yr in today's dollars. HughBeaumont Feb 2014 #12

Let's just reduce executive pay.... 0zone Feb 2014 #11

When I got my first job, the MW was $1.65 an hr. BobbyBoring Sep 2014 #13