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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn’t raising the minimum wage also disqualify people from getting federal and state handouts?  Isn’t that the goal of the GOP- fiscal responsibility?

As for small store owners not being able to pay their employees- those employees are already clamoring to work at Costco, Walmart and Target.  It’s been happening for decades now.

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The GOP's goal is the opposite of fiscal responsibility. Their goal has been to absolve employers of any public responsibility with regard to wages, benefits, working conditions, environmental damage, employment of undocumented workers, and so on. They have eagerly expanded federal benefits to low-income workers as an alternative to increasing the minimum wage.

Reagan opposed increasing the minimum wage throughout his Presidency but proposed and signed an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit. 
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/reagans-actions-made-him-a-true-eitc-champion

Paul Ryan was willing to work with Obama to expand the EITC but not to increase the minimum wage. 
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/what-difference-would-ryans-eitc-expansion-make-for-childless-workers[/quote]

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