As predicted - Study shows Seattle $15 min wage result is less hours and 5000 less jobs

[The Derp]

That's an incredibly ignorant statement. If the state of Illinois files for bankruptcy (which they are on the verge of doing) or they are forced to raise taxes to exorbitant levels (which will drive out businesses), then the state of Illinois collapsed.

Again, the budget may be out of whack, but that's a ways away from saying the state is "collapsing". IL's economy outpaced KS' since 2012. You seem to be stretching the definition of "collapsed" to suit your needs, kinda like how you stretch the definition of "Conservative" to suit your needs.

You're trying to credit the government with any achievement of private industry. Sorry snowflake, it doesn't work that way. If private industry is still able to grow in Illinois despite the state's dire financial situation, that doesn't alleviate the state of their failed left-wing policies which lead to them filing bankruptcy.

Private industry is growing in IL despite the state's fiscal situation. You can just look at BEA reports and see for yourself. In 2015, IL's economy grew by about 2.5%. In 2016, its economy grew 0.9%. Both cases are better GDP growth than the red state meth lab known as Kansas, and IL has had budget problems far longer than a couple years.

 

[The Derp]

Automating too many jobs will ruin business. Unemployed customers won't buy much.

This is why we need to start talking seriously about a Universal Basic Income.

 

[Brain357]

Automating too many jobs will ruin business. Unemployed customers won't buy much.

This is why we need to start talking seriously about a Universal Basic Income.

It is a fascinating idea. I haven't looked at it enough to have an oppinion.

 

[P@triot]

[ don't think an adult can answer the question for you. Do you always dodge?

LMAO! No snowflake...the adult is to explain to you that your question was thoroughly answered. Your reading comprehension is so atrocious you can't even understand why the adult was recommended to you.

 

[P@triot]

Automating too many jobs will ruin business. Unemployed customers won't buy much.

This is why we need to start talking seriously about a Universal Basic Income.

Bwahahaha! Just as I said...the left believes that economic prosperity is achieved by paying everyone to dig a hole in their backyard and then fill it back in!

 

[P@triot]

Automating too many jobs will ruin business. Unemployed customers won't buy much.

This is why we need to start talking seriously about a Universal Basic Income.

 

[P@triot]

But you didn't actually articulate how IL's fiscal issues impact the state's economy. That was my point

No it's wasn't. That was never your "point" because that not what we were discussing. Once the facts exposed the reality that you had no idea what you were talking about, you desperately attempted to reframe the discussion.

Idiotic left-wing policy caused the city of Detroit to file for bankruptcy and it's about to cause the state of Illinois to file for bankruptcy. That's what idiotic left-wing economic policy does. It spends more than it takes in, and then it attempts to correct that failure by taxing itself into prosperity (which ends in third-world shit-hole results).

 

[P@triot]

Automating too many jobs will ruin business. Unemployed customers won't buy much.

This is why we need to start talking seriously about a Universal Basic Income.

 

[P@triot]

The left has a solution.

In the very ugly 150 year history of the Dumbocrat Party, the left has never had a "solution". Literally never.

It is called unemployment Compensation for being unemployed on an at-will basis in our at-will employment States. It is a market friendly solution.

There is nothing "market friendly" about paying people to quit their jobs.

 

[P@triot]

The left has a solution. It is called unemployment Compensation for being unemployed on an at-will basis in our at-will employment States. It is a market friendly solution.

 

[P@triot]

I think they simply need to legalize marijuana.

The left's entire approach to economics: dig a hole and sell drugs

 

[P@triot]

This is why we need to start talking seriously about a Universal Basic Income.

It is a fascinating idea. I haven't looked at it enough to have an oppinion.

Apparently you didn't study grammar enough to have an opinion on that too...

 

[Brain357]

[ don't think an adult can answer the question for you. Do you always dodge?

LMAO! No snowflake...the adult is to explain to you that your question was thoroughly answered. Your reading comprehension is so atrocious you can't even understand why the adult was recommended to you.

So your answer is to babble gibberish? Seems you have no answer at all.

 

[Brain357]

I think they simply need to legalize marijuana.

The left's entire approach to economics: dig a hole and sell drugs

Kansas shows us how ineffective the right is on economics.

 

[Brain357]

This is why we need to start talking seriously about a Universal Basic Income.

It is a fascinating idea. I haven't looked at it enough to have an oppinion.

Apparently you didn't study grammar enough to have an opinion on that too...

Gee a typo while typing on a phone. That is all you have? You are petty and pathetic.

 

[Wyatt earp]

I think they simply need to legalize marijuana.

The left's entire approach to economics: dig a hole and sell drugs

Kansas shows us how ineffective the right is on economics.

Yet no opinion on New York state doing the same thing?

.

 

[Brain357]

I think they simply need to legalize marijuana.

The left's entire approach to economics: dig a hole and sell drugs

Kansas shows us how ineffective the right is on economics.

Yet no opinion on New York state doing the same thing?

.

Do you really think repubs have some great economic record? I haven't seen it.

The right’s zombie-in-chief is the insistence that low taxes on the rich are the key to prosperity. This doctrine should have died when Bill Clinton’s tax hike failed to cause the predicted recession and was followed instead by an economic boom. It should have died again when George W. Bush’s tax cuts were followed by lackluster growth, then a crash. And it should have died yet again in the aftermath of the 2013 Obama tax hike — partly expiration of some Bush tax cuts, partly new taxes to pay for Obamacare — when the economy continued jogging along, adding 200,000 jobs a month.

Opinion | Zombies, Vampires and Republicans

 

[Wyatt earp]

I think they simply need to legalize marijuana.

The left's entire approach to economics: dig a hole and sell drugs

Kansas shows us how ineffective the right is on economics.

Yet no opinion on New York state doing the same thing?

.

Do you really think repubs have some great economic record? I haven't seen it.

The right’s zombie-in-chief is the insistence that low taxes on the rich are the key to prosperity. This doctrine should have died when Bill Clinton’s tax hike failed to cause the predicted recession and was followed instead by an economic boom. It should have died again when George W. Bush’s tax cuts were followed by lackluster growth, then a crash. And it should have died yet again in the aftermath of the 2013 Obama tax hike — partly expiration of some Bush tax cuts, partly new taxes to pay for Obamacare — when the economy continued jogging along, adding 200,000 jobs a month.

Opinion | Zombies, Vampires and Republicans

That's your retort a copy and paste?


Again Brian New York state did the same thing as Kansas lower taxes to attract business..

.

 

[Brain357]

I think they simply need to legalize marijuana.

The left's entire approach to economics: dig a hole and sell drugs

Kansas shows us how ineffective the right is on economics.

Yet no opinion on New York state doing the same thing?

.

Do you really think repubs have some great economic record? I haven't seen it.

The right’s zombie-in-chief is the insistence that low taxes on the rich are the key to prosperity. This doctrine should have died when Bill Clinton’s tax hike failed to cause the predicted recession and was followed instead by an economic boom. It should have died again when George W. Bush’s tax cuts were followed by lackluster growth, then a crash. And it should have died yet again in the aftermath of the 2013 Obama tax hike — partly expiration of some Bush tax cuts, partly new taxes to pay for Obamacare — when the economy continued jogging along, adding 200,000 jobs a month.

Opinion | Zombies, Vampires and Republicans

That's your retort a copy and paste?


Again Brian New York state did the same thing as Kansas lower taxes to attract business..

.

You will have to give some details.

 

[Brain357]

Trickle down economic policy just does not work
Kansas performed the great Republican experiment with a GOP governor and legislature slashing taxes on the wealthy, eliminating social spending and undermining unions while embracing austerity and small government, at the same time promising "a shot of adrenaline" to the Kansas economy. About two months ago, after five years of experimentation and with its budget and economy a mess, the Kansas Republican Legislature decided it had enough and raised taxes. Kansas Gov. Brownback's experiment was designed by the same supply-side economists that President Trump is using for his tax plan.

For comparison, take a look at the approach used in Minnesota. After a similar time period as Kansas, and after the failed policies of Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton raised income taxes on individuals earning more that $150K, raised the minimum wage, guaranteed equal pay for women, made education a priority and turned a deficit into a surplus. Minnesota has a low unemployment rate and an economic growth rate that is one of the highest in the nation.