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   Intelligent Party to Intelligent Party   
   Bump: Re: A State Option For The Minimum   
   14 May 22 00:54:45   
   
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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   On 5/7/2022 12:31 AM, Intelligent Party wrote:   
   > Underemployment Masks True Unemployment   
   >   
   > If raising the minimum wage *did* increase unemployment, it would merely be   
   > showing us the *true* unemployment rate.   
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   > A State Option For The Minimum Wage Will Never Be!   
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   > The Federal Government needs to take charge.   
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   > The CITY of Birmingham, Alabama, RAISED the minimum wage, but in response,   
   the   
   > STATE of Alabama, passed legislation stating the minimum wage must be the   
   same   
   > everywhere in the State, which is ZERO.   
   >   
   > Alabama only has a minimum wage because of the Federal minimum wage.   
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   > Salaries lag inflation.   
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   > If Everyone Had Equal Consumption, Libertarian Economics Might Work   
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   > It still might be inadvisable, you should just be able to use the park, or   
   > sidewalk, or road, and not pay.  There are extreme benefits to communalism.   
   >   
   > It's like, farmers need to be able to water all day in 100 degree heat.    
   That's   
   > the way work gets done.  They don't need to worry about paying.  Nor do   
   people   
   > need to worry about paying to use roads or parks.  We should own them as the   
   > people.  Likewise we need to put in the water.  That's the way work gets   
   done.  It   
   > would only cost several billion dollars out of a several thousand billion   
   dollar   
   > Federal Budget.   
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