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California conservative multimillionaire supports minimum wage increase

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  1. 1. Increasing the minimum wage would curtail illegal immigration and reduce spending on safety net programs without reducing unemployment. Your thoughts?

    • Maybe true in California. I suppose it depends on the nature of the minimum wage jobs in each state.
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    • Bullpuckey! The minimum wage should not be increased.
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    • Bullpuckey! The minimum wage should be eliminated.
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    • True everywhere in the country. Raise the minimum wage nationwide.
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Mr. Big Dog
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No.

GandD
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Same here. I leave my ac adapter at work though so I may not be so inconvenienced.

GandD
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Well, the thing is, $200 is unreasonable. Raising the minimum wage to say $10 is not unreasonable. There are discussions for sure to be had on the economic/social impact of raising the minimum wage.

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Ron Unz, an entrepreneur and registered Republican with conservative credentials, argues raising California's minimum wage to $12 an hour will ease low-paid workers' dependency on food stamps and other government assistance programs.

Entrepreneur Unz, 52, is a former publisher of The American Conservative magazine with a history of against-the-grain political activism that includes pushing a 1998 ballot proposal that dismantled California's bilingual education system, an idea he later championed in Colorado and other states.

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After a long break on the political sidelines, Unz's reappearance has startled members of both major parties, and his proposal if it goes to voters in November could unsettle races from governor to Congress.

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To Unz, who's spoken out over the years on issues as varied as campaign finance to IQ and race, the proposal simply makes sense. As drafted, it would increase the minimum wage in two steps to $10 an hour in 2015, and $12 the following year, which would be the highest among states at current levels.

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Unz says taxpayers for too long have been subsidizing low-wage paying businesses, since the government pays for food stamps and other programs those workers often need to get by. He posits that the increase at $12-an-hour, up from the current $8 would lift millions of Californians out of poverty, drive up income and sales tax revenue and save taxpayers billions of dollars, since those workers would no longer qualify for many welfare benefits.

He dismisses the notion that countless jobs would evaporate, noting that most of the state's lower-wage jobs are in agriculture and the service sector, which can't be easily automated or transported elsewhere. He believes higher wages would make the jobs more attractive to U.S. residents, curtailing a lure for illegal immigration.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0112/California-conservative-multimillionaire-supports-minimum-wage-increase

I think it's great that a Californian with political pull and money is actually putting forth a solution for residents of California.

I'll be p|ssed when it passes, though, as all of the illegals living in California will migrate to Texas for the low paying agricultural jobs.

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all of the illegals living in California will migrate to Texas for the low paying agricultural jobs.

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Hippies just don't want to work period. There is good money picking produce. I live in an agricultural county, and the illegals have it sweet. Besides, we don't have all those Lone Star swilling folks shooting holes in anything that moves after dark.

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You can discuss the minimum wage for Americans, but for Jobs Americans will no do I do not understand why there should be any set amount.

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The illegals here were getting $10 an hour a couple of years ago.

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I keep hearing about these jobs that Americans will not do. What are those jobs?

Jobs being done by non Americans.

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