re: California $20 minimum wage = 18,000 jobs lost

Fair take, but…
Yes, automation is a long-term trend—but minimum wage hikes accelerate it. When labor gets artificially more expensive, the ROI on machines suddenly makes a lot more sense.

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Automation is a FAR greater driver of staffing reductions in low skilled positions than minimum wage.

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Ummmm... Raising the mandated wage exacerbates that.

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California can do what California wants as long as it's with California's money

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Exactly...as long as the Feds don't bail them out, Cali can go bankrupt, we don't care- you get what you vote for when you put Socialists and Commies in office...

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It's amazing how dumb the internet has made people. Common sense is just gone.

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Ikr. Some of them are even stupid enough to let the entire world know they dream about their daughter getting creampied.

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McDonald’s and Taco Bell

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gross

So if minimum wage is lowered to $7.25 (national mandate), you can create jobs. Ok fine. These jobs will pay $7.25 / hr * 40 hrs/week * 52 weeks / year = $15,080.00.

If you think you can survive in California on that then think again. You cannot survive in Lafayette, LA or Baton Rouge, LA on that salary.

So yes, you are creating jobs, but these people will still need to be supported by federal / state programs to stay alive. So the federal / state government is paying to support them while they are working for "small business owners" who are benefiting from lower wages. So this is nothing but a corporate subsidy.

Do we really need to subsidize "small business owners" like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg any more than we already do.

“According to CNN”. Hahaha

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In short: Teens are lazy now, can’t work late hours, and somehow that means we should pay single parents more for the same job because…they have kids? Also, businesses shouldn’t pay taxes because the customer ends up footing the bill anyway. Somewhere in there he implies we’re subsidizing Burger King’s onion rings and honestly, I think even he lost the plot halfway through.

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Teens aren't any lazier today than they were 100 years ago, they simply do not need a job like they did 100 years ago. They categorically can't work early and late hours because they are in school. We already pay single parents more....through subsidized housing, food, transportation, health care, a host of things that we pay for, there is no free lunch. And a business that is not losing money must pass all costs onto consumers....revenue has to exceed expenses. These are basic concepts....but far too many among us pretend otherwise.

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Holy shite - I hope you don't employ people.

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I have, I sold that business and work for myself and only pay myself now but when I did have employees they earned a living wage, every one of them....I did not rely on taxpayers to subsidize my production costs like low wage employers do and idiots who mistakenly think of human beings as a commodity encourage to continue to do.

Don't like tax dollars going to the poor? There are 3 options I am aware of, let them die and live in squalor, neither idea will be supported by the majority of Americans. Most would prefer not having corpses lying in ditches and almost no one wants anymore low cost housing anywhere near them. The third and best option is for those poor people who work full time jobs....the vast majority of poor people, earning the cost of their living through their labor instead of taxpayers subsidizing the production costs of low wage employers. There ain't no free lunch

Want less crime and less tax money going to prisons. Pay people a living wage. Ain't no free lunch.

Want fewer uninsured and underinsured people driving up the cost of health care? Pay them a living wage, there ain't no free lunch.

Want fewer poop people living in shitty neighborhoods near you? Pay them a living wage....there ain't no free lunch.

There are 4 ways that people can financially sustain their existence short of inherited wealth or winning a lottery. These are labor, crime, welfare or a combination of the three. Want clean drinking water and modern day sewer and building standards? They ain't free, someone has to pay...it is far better for people to earn the money it costs them to survive than have them earn some part of it, be on the dole, be a criminal of some kind or some combination of these. There ain't no free lunch....we either pay taxes to have nice things like shite not running down the dirt streets or we don't pay taxes and have shite in the streets. The more of us paying directly for OUR shite not running in the street the better...there ain't no free lunch. How so many people dismiss this basic principle is amazing....