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Originally Posted by calculoso
In which case there should be no resistance in those areas and should be an easy to implement.
Or is this one of those “it does nothing for me so I’m against it” arguments?
So a policy being appropriate for 75% of the country is unacceptable because 25% of the country is against it? Is that something that happens all over the US? Or is it only if a certain poor and red 25% is against it that an idea is bad, even if they would benefit most?
In a Consumer driven country like the USA, where spending money is the main thing keeping the country try moving, being against giving people more spending power seems counterproductive and damaging to the overall economy.
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Yeah, of course a $15 min wage is easy to implement in states and areas where no one makes less than $15/hour. I'm not sure what point you are making there.
There are a lot of small towns and rural areas across the US where small, local businesses can't absorb an instant jump to a $15 min wage and businesses will close. The net effect is that people will have to go to bigger towns or cities to shop or eat out. Boosting min wage isn't going to drive up the spending money in those areas, since unlike cities, there are very few people with min wage type jobs. Instead you are basically just killing small, local economies, so that isn't likely benefitting anyone.