Walmart Giving All Employees a Raise to $10/Hour

[Famous Mortimer]

Ugh.  Not enough.  The min. wage should be $15 at the least but all we are going to hear is "praise Money-Jesus the invisible hand has saved us all again!"

I didn't know you hated small businesses.

I didn't know your grasp of economics was that...well...loose.

Small businesses can't afford such a high wage without damaging themselves, and everything would also become more expensive as more money means higher prices.

Small business that can't afford to pay their employees a living wage? Damn right, I hate them. They shouldn't be in business.

Similarly, if you can find a big corporation who pays their people fairly, I will be happy to support them.

I support businesses based on their overall business practices, not their size.

Why would anyone think a business being "small" is inherently a good thing? It doesn't tell you anything.

[Famous Mortimer]

I'm always amused to see the right insist they prefer Welfare over Working as the cure for poverty.

Refunding the inhumane taxes you impose on your slave workers is not Welfare. Even if the refund were larger than the tax liability, to relieve the imputed taxes on the goods and services they purchase, it still wouldn't be Welfare.

Welfare is teaching people to rely on the government by punishing them for aspiring to independence. Democrats have never stopped using this form of social control. Setting people free is difficult and unrealistic, and it upsets your economic ambitions.

We get it.

Why is "dependence" bad and "independence" good? "Independence leads to the very concrete problems of poverty and death. "Dependence" is only offensive on an esoteric/philosophical level.

[Famous Mortimer]

So I just tell the fast food place by my work that has had a NOW HIRING sign up for months now on the side of their building that the problem is not that nobody wants to work there but that their jobs really don't exist because a guy on an internet says the data doesn't show they do.

First of all, now hiring just means they are willing to replace someone who lacks the credentials they prefer.

No. This is ridiculous. No one does this. If you let an employee go, you have to pay into their unemployment benefits. No company hires people intending to let them go and replace them. That's craziness. It just doesn't happen.