>>12596076I never said a decent wage is bad. A decent wage is good, if it's earned. Otherwise, we're just handing out gibs that nobody can pay for, least of all small businesses.
Yes, we have $300,000,000 people. We cannot apply the same economic principles which may work for say, Denmark or Norway (who each have less people than NYC alone) to this colossal fucking monstrosity of a nation because of that.
Further, what do you think will happen to rent if wages go up? It will go up, in order to keep pace with the rising federal minimum wage, and then people who are broke because of rent will still be broke because of rent. Bravo, nothing of value was accomplished, and people will still get taxed out the ass in order to pay for the increase.
>w-well we'll just have the rich pay for it with an income tax!They will dodge it faster than Tyrone dodging his child support payments. It is near impossible to get rich fucks to pay their taxes, #1 because they have crafty lawyers and financiers working for them for the sole purpose of paying less on taxes, and #2 because they can just pay Congress for a loophole if their people can't find anything.
