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In reply to the discussion: So, about that Amazon wage hike that Bernie is responsible for... [View all]TexasTowelie
(113,624 posts)but every time that the minimum wage was increased the price of the products at fast-food restaurants and grocery stores increased accordingly. However, my experience from watching prices increase over a 40 year period obviously doesn't matter to you since they don't fit your theoretical model.
The idea that companies are going to increase job opportunities also doesn't hold true. I live in a town that can't even support a KFC/Taco Bell franchise. Most of the jobs available in this area are looking for long haul truck drivers and delivery trucks such as UPS and FedEx. I can't hold those jobs since I lack a CDL and I have medical conditions that would never allow me to hold that type of work. There are very few positions for administrative/office work where I live and when they do come open it is either for part-time jobs or temporary assignments lasting 3-6 months.
What proof do you have of that? You offer no evidence to back up that claim and it's disingenuous for you to make that claim when you can't support it. In the past when the minimum wage has increased there wasn't a corresponding increase in my salary, but there was an increase in my expenses.
I don't know why you keep insisting that improving the baseline helps me because I have the direct experience that it doesn't. I live in the real world rather than some fictional utopia. Don't tell me some fairy tale about how all wages rise helps everyone because if someone is unemployed or living on a fixed income the only thing those people will see is the price of commodities increase with no corresponding increase in income. That is the reality for millions of Americans and I'm one of them.
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