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Fearless

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2. The problem is...

Reply to OrwellwasRight (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 12:07 PM

Oct 2015

The playing field isn't level. If there was a universal equivalent minimum wage world wide there's things would work just fine. The problem is there isn't. So good jobs move to other countries where minimum wages are lower, and we don't actually profit from it because we lost good paying jobs and the influx of cheaper goods is actually still a net loss not a net gain for us.

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Just in case you are buying the "18,000 tax cuts" argument . . . [View all] OrwellwasRight Oct 2015 OP

An end run around U.S. courts is far too high a price to pay for what amounts to a handful of Vincardog Oct 2015 #1

+1 OrwellwasRight Oct 2015 #7

The problem is... Fearless Oct 2015 #2

#3 is very dangerous for all of us 4dsc Oct 2015 #3

Agree. OrwellwasRight Oct 2015 #8

And corporations are just so special that they get an extra-special court system fasttense Oct 2015 #4

I get it angrychair Oct 2015 #5

Wow -- who do you think runs the US policy machine? OrwellwasRight Oct 2015 #6

Again, don't see it angrychair Oct 2015 #9

Show where I said OrwellwasRight Oct 2015 #10

From your earlier post angrychair Oct 2015 #11

Yes "they do not care" OrwellwasRight Oct 2015 #12