Recent content by cowboyinexile

It might have to do with the slow movement in the senate as much as anything. You had runoff elections that changed the majority and those are just now being seated. Plus there were delays as both sides had to agree to a power sharing ceremony. Hopefully with a fairly divided house the...

That's a stretch. Let's say I wanted to kill my neighbor. I researched and talk to a hit man about it but he wants $50K and I don't have that kind of money. Is that brainstorming or conspiracy because that's exactly what happened here? Trump wanted it but didn't have the political capital to...

This thread reminds me of someone.

To be fair this was a campaign promise made when we were vaccinating half that. Now with more vaccine and possibly a new one it looks like a low goal to meet. But it's still impressive considering 12 months ago we were just starting to realize this would be a problem.

Forget it. He's rolling.

It's politically convenient and throws a bone to the environmentalists. Somewhere here today someone mentioned that reduced access to the Canadian oil from there would benefit domestic oil producers and therefore Oklahomans but I'm guessing that didn't factor heavily in the political calculus.

Depends on the person and their skillset. I've seen people in the grocery store example turn a minimum wage job into a career. Of course they aren't minimum wage forever. I've also seen people do dead end retail work that they hate but it pays the bills.

You should probably check your source. They are quoting CBO which is fine, but looking at their twitter feed they have an agenda.

But a bunch of those jobs will go away due to automation regardless. If you want to talk about a sector that could see job losses, I would look at nursing homes. People who work there get paid squat and youb really can't automate much of that. I could see situations there where employees are...

In his scenario, no. In his hypothetical it's realistic that you have a couple of people making $10/hr part time already (if not more). At most you are looking at a $5 bump for a couple people working 25 hrs per week. If your business can't survive due to an extra $250/week expense then it's...

Who are they going to cut that they can't cut already? If they are big enough to automate they are doing it regardless. If they aren't big enough then either their workforce is already streamlined and they can't or they are just eliminating unnecessary jobs they didn't need in the first place...

Ok. I think we are getting off the point here. If you're a small convenience store, and you have one employee in the store half the time, you can't replace them with a self checkout. You don't have anyone to face shelves during the downtime or lock up. So a minimum wage change will not...

But there were other people there. If you are closing a small store most of the time it's just you. Even if it were legal I'd be uncomfortable putting a 16 year old in that spot.