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So that is why Biden did vaccine mandates, taking away peoples medical rights?  Democrats are full of crap as well, medical freedoms my ass.  How about thinking ahead about how a child is made if you don't want a baby.  Is it really that hard?  [/quote]

Biden never did "vaccine mandates." There are still millions of people running around unvaccinated that are breaking absolutely zero laws.  I assume you're talking about the requirement for federal employees to get vaccinated which was a private matter between an employer and employees. (Which strangely Republicans love until it's a matter that affects them...) Every single employee was still free to remain unvaccinated again, without breaking any laws whatsoever, they just weren't free to remain in their job.

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People too stupid to understand that rising minimum wage causes the prices of everything to go up are the only ones asking for it.

Example 1:  Fast food worker, makes $10 an hour burger is at $5. Wage is now $15 and burger becomes $8.  You could have had two burgers in 1 hour of work but now you can't.

Example 2:  AC business' charges $100 per service call.  The secretary was making $13 but will now make $15. AC business now will charge $130 per service call.

Whenever minimum wage increases the prices of goods increase.  You will never catch up and then other people near closer to minimum wage gap get hurt the worst.  [/quote]

First of all, in your own example the fast food worker experienced a net benefit of $3. Your second example makes absolutely zero sense unless the AC business employs only one AC tech and their average service call lasts 15 hours.

Second, your examples are ludicrously, absurdly wrong. Actual studies by economists have shown that on average, raising the minimum wage to $15 would increase fast food prices by only 4.3%. So if your example was based anywhere near reality, that $5 burger would increase to a whopping price of...$5.22. The horror!

https://okpolicy.org/the-cheeseburger-economics-of-the-minimum-wage/

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Why do you need to work a minimum wage job to begin with?  Most of these were for people going to college or high school students.  If you want a degree get something that will make money such as engineering.  An underwater basket weaving degree will only leave you with student loans you can't pay back.  If you don't want to go to college pick up a trade like working on A/C units or similar.  Many make more than a college student once trained and don't have any student loan debt.
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Why do you need to work a minimum wage job to begin with? Nobody WANTS to work a minimum wage job, but somebody has to. There simply aren't enough engineer or plumber or business executive jobs for everyone to have one, and even if there were, who would flip the burgers?

This is just yet another example of uninformed right wing "feelings over facts" thinking. [/quote]

The fact that you can't comprehend that the worker can't buy what the did before totally invalidate your entire argument.

There are help wanted signs out for all sorts of trade skills...... 
[quote]The State of Skilled Trades in the U.S.
“We have 7.3 million open jobs right now, most of which don’t require a four-year degree,” Rowe said. “They require training, they require skill and they require a willingness to master a trade that’s in demand.”

The challenge with filling those open jobs, Rowe says, is the mindset that promotes college education over apprenticeships and training. In doing so, he says, we create a list of “alternative jobs” that leads generations of high schoolers to question why they’d ever want to become, among other things, a plumber, welder, pipe fitter, steamfitter or electrician.[/quote]

and if you don't like that source.... even from from PBS:

[url]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-trade-jobs-are-unpopular-and-how-low-wage-workers-can-get-better-opportunities[/url]

Go grab your talking point buddies and try again.[/quote]

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