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Ikonoklast

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6. Any business that depends on employees working for starvation wages deserves to fail.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 10:41 AM

Feb 2014

I have to pay taxes to subsidize that business indirectly due to the fact that they keep their employees in poverty and therefore need to use public resources in order to survive.

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