re: Minimum wage battle is going to destroy small businesses!

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There's no free market economy when the government will pay you to sit on your arse, that's not a free market. The supply of workers willing to work a low wage job is artificially lowered by people not needing to work to put food on the table

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You would be correct if that situation existed, it does not, but you'd be correct if it did. 80-85% of people who receive ANY social welfare spending in the US from taxpayers work full time. Almost ALL programs that provide benefits have an employment requirement. Those that do not consist of money going to the disabled and kids too young to work. Sitting on your arse does not work. I know many people want to believe otherwise but it simply is not true. What is true is such employment requirements incentivize low wages....low wage employers do not have to cover those costs, the rest of us do it for them.