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« Reply #25 on: May 20, 2015, 08:05:31 AM »

What do you propose someone do if they find themselves spending more than twelve months over the course of their life in a minimum wage job that doesn't allow them to afford food or housing or healthcare?
I don't know what the cost of living in Arizona is, but here in South Carolina, while it would be rather spartan, it is possible for a single person to obtain adequate food, housing, and healthcare on a full-time minimum wage job.

The problem is that you would be in South Carolina.

Yes, how dare they have low taxes but also a balanced budget?!
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« Reply #26 on: May 20, 2015, 08:16:09 AM »

What do you propose someone do if they find themselves spending more than twelve months over the course of their life in a minimum wage job that doesn't allow them to afford food or housing or healthcare?
I don't know what the cost of living in Arizona is, but here in South Carolina, while it would be rather spartan, it is possible for a single person to obtain adequate food, housing, and healthcare on a full-time minimum wage job.

Sure it would be easiest for single people, but the bulk of welfare goes to families with non-working depeendents. What are they to do?
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« Reply #27 on: May 20, 2015, 08:34:56 AM »

What do you propose someone do if they find themselves spending more than twelve months over the course of their life in a minimum wage job that doesn't allow them to afford food or housing or healthcare?
I don't know what the cost of living in Arizona is, but here in South Carolina, while it would be rather spartan, it is possible for a single person to obtain adequate food, housing, and healthcare on a full-time minimum wage job.

The problem is that you would be in South Carolina.

Yes, how dare they have low taxes but also a balanced budget?!

That has nothing to do with cost of living.
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« Reply #28 on: May 20, 2015, 12:19:39 PM »

What do you propose someone do if they find themselves spending more than twelve months over the course of their life in a minimum wage job that doesn't allow them to afford food or housing or healthcare?
I don't know what the cost of living in Arizona is, but here in South Carolina, while it would be rather spartan, it is possible for a single person to obtain adequate food, housing, and healthcare on a full-time minimum wage job.

The problem is that you would be in South Carolina.

Yes, how dare they have low taxes but also a balanced budget?!

That has nothing to do with cost of living.

Still 7.30% lower than the national average
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« Reply #29 on: May 20, 2015, 12:27:07 PM »

What do you propose someone do if they find themselves spending more than twelve months over the course of their life in a minimum wage job that doesn't allow them to afford food or housing or healthcare?
I don't know what the cost of living in Arizona is, but here in South Carolina, while it would be rather spartan, it is possible for a single person to obtain adequate food, housing, and healthcare on a full-time minimum wage job.

The problem is that you would be in South Carolina.

Yes, how dare they have low taxes but also a balanced budget?!

Every state but Vermont has a law that obligates them to play the budget-balance game.
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« Reply #30 on: May 20, 2015, 12:30:52 PM »
« Edited: May 20, 2015, 12:34:59 PM by King »

I live in a state and city with an even lower cost of living than South Carolina and our minimum wage is $9/hr and we have Medicaid expansion and a higher income tax rate than any of our neighboring states. Our per capita state spending is $3,000 more than SC and yet we have the same credit rating of AA+ by S&P.

South Carolina also has an unemployment rate 0.6% higher and their in-state college tuition is twice as high.

And we're governed by Republicans.
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« Reply #31 on: May 20, 2015, 12:43:19 PM »

Is their goal to make self-deportation a reality?
I know I would self-deport from Arizona at this rate.

That's the general idea, yes.

Joe might be on the new Southern Border.
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« Reply #32 on: May 20, 2015, 12:44:45 PM »

Is their goal to make self-deportation a reality?
I know I would self-deport from Arizona at this rate.

That's the general idea, yes.

Joe might be on the new Southern Border.

At least northern AZ should be kept in America. It has many redeeming qualities.
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« Reply #33 on: May 20, 2015, 02:07:46 PM »

At least Arizona isn't in charge of administering native american benefits on the Hopi reservation. That would have been the first thing cut to pay for the tax cuts for the rich.
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« Reply #34 on: May 20, 2015, 11:08:15 PM »

What do you propose someone do if they find themselves spending more than twelve months over the course of their life in a minimum wage job that doesn't allow them to afford food or housing or healthcare?
I don't know what the cost of living in Arizona is, but here in South Carolina, while it would be rather spartan, it is possible for a single person to obtain adequate food, housing, and healthcare on a full-time minimum wage job.

The problem is that you would be in South Carolina.
I'd count that as an additional benefit myself.
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« Reply #35 on: May 20, 2015, 11:32:02 PM »

1,600 families in an entire state is a rounding error. This isn't about policy or budgets. It's about ignorant and emotional tv ads for re-election. OMG, teh Welfare Queenz!!!!1111
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« Reply #36 on: May 20, 2015, 11:43:43 PM »

The GOP truly is just the marketing arm of the upper classes.  This is pathetic and evil but what else do you expect from the state GOP of conservative states these days?  It started with Romney in 2012... they aren't even keeping the facade of working or standing up for regular Americans anymore.  Just a bunch of megamerican, uber-nationalist white noise to sucker people into voting for this depraved game. 
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« Reply #37 on: May 21, 2015, 02:32:28 AM »

What do you propose someone do if they find themselves spending more than twelve months over the course of their life in a minimum wage job that doesn't allow them to afford food or housing or healthcare?
I don't know what the cost of living in Arizona is, but here in South Carolina, while it would be rather spartan, it is possible for a single person to obtain adequate food, housing, and healthcare on a full-time minimum wage job.

The problem is that you would be in South Carolina.

Yes, how dare they have low taxes but also a balanced budget?!

Every state but Vermont has a law that obligates them to play the budget-balance game.

It still has a balanced budget anyway. Smiley
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« Reply #38 on: May 21, 2015, 07:17:30 AM »

megamerican, uber-nationalist white noise
I love a good double entendre. Bravo Hockey Dude!
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