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Originally Posted by ITraffic
if it doesn't fit your preconceptions then it is a "bad example" of course.
that is reality despite what your bias thinks should happen. that is the result.
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You are the one with bias. You use that example of Seattle to say a higher minimum wage would work as well in a town in rural Colorado as it might in an expensive Metropolitan area -- you are wrong.
It should be a local decision above a Federal Mandated Minimum. A national minimum wage is a lowest common denominator value. That is what 'Minimum' means nationally. If you think the minimum wage should be more where you live -- lobby for it -- in your case, and in your locality, you may be right. We have a de facto minimum wage around here of $11/hr for most jobs --
most people will not work for less -- those are market-set wages. Maybe, the lowest skilled workers around here get the federal minimum but they are entry level or the '
lowest skilled'.
Absolutes do not exist in reality ...