Your Rections to the Third/Last Presidential Debate

[Al B. Sure!]

No, its prudent at this point in time. Its not a huge jump either. In some states like MA and WA, its only a .25 cent increase.

it's $5.15 right now... i figured it would be increased soon but i figured to maybe $5.75 or thereabouts not a massive increase like to 7 dollars. that would just cause crazy inflation. it's too much too soon.

[Dis]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn


No, its prudent at this point in time. Its not a huge jump either. In some states like MA and WA, its only a .25 cent increase.

I agree that minimum wage jumps are inevitable. You can't keep it down so low for that long.

I think the best time to do it is when the economy is growing by a significant margin. I think we are still too close to our recent recession to raise wages.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Albert Speer


it's $5.15 right now... i figured it would be increased soon but i figured to maybe $5.75 or thereabouts not a massive increase like to 7 dollars. that would just cause crazy inflation. it's too much too soon.

in defense of Kerry- he said this would be over several years.

[Al B. Sure!]

"I can dig it" -John Kerry

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Albert Speer


it's $5.15 right now... i figured it would be increased soon but i figured to maybe $5.75 or thereabouts not a massive increase like to 7 dollars. that would just cause crazy inflation. it's too much too soon.

But most states have minimum wages that are higher than that anyways. Its 6.75 in Massachusetts.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Most states don't have min wage that is anything close to $6.75, btw.

[Al B. Sure!]

yeah well it's 5.15 in PA and probably the same in most states. Taxachusetts is an abberation.

[Bosh]

Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Who won I don't know. Both Candidates bugged me, I score it even because I wasn't paying much attention to style. Kerry bugs me more and more. Still planning on voting for him, I guess.

Know how your feel. Before the 1st debate, Kerry was really pissing me off and that debate made me feel a lot better about Kerry. This debate didn't do that at all.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Quite a few states have high minimum wages:

http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/minimumwage/staterates.cfm

7.15 in Alaska, 6.90 in Oregon... among others.

[mrmitchell]

I didn't see it.

Why the hell do they have a debate on a Friday and a Wednesday? How many prospective voters do they think they're reaching by slapping debates at bad times?

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Dissident
Raising minimum wage could put people out of work and increase inflation.

This is the exact same argument I remember hearing back in '93. Then Clinton coupled the raise in minimum wage with a tax increase on the top 1.7% to decrease the deficient, and the result was the longest-lasting economic rise in American history.

[Imran Siddiqui]

CNN (or rather Larry King) just reported CNN Flash poll results:

Kerry 52%
Bush 39%

That shocks me.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Zkrib, correlations does not indicate correlation. Raising the minimum wage will have adverse effects, hopefully we can have another bubble like in the 90s to offset that.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
CNN (or rather Larry King) just reported CNN Flash poll results:

Kerry 52%
Bush 39%

That shocks me.

me too. hmmm

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
CNN (or rather Larry King) just reported CNN Flash poll results:

Kerry 52%
Bush 39%

That shocks me.

I strongly suspect that internet users swing kerry.