Well….what the Poodle really means is that she likes to have someone read my comments to her…….not too sure she reads to be honest.

..yawn…I need to read Teddy Steals’ comments right before I go to bed, so I go into a deep, deep slumber.

Queeg— your Euro Hx is wasted on these scoundral dull-normals. They want to “make America great again”—–lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL Poor Dyspeptic—— Zzzzzzzzzz

Cost Of Living Adjustments (COLA) to wages favors the well paid: A 3% COLA adjustment for someone making $100K will result in their compensation being almost $135K in 10 years, but for someone making $30K, their compensation will be $40K in 10 years. The differential being $24K more for the well compensated as the financially challenged continue to fall further behind.

The new minimum wage crusade will result in ALL wages increasing. The crusade to put a “band aid” on the wound of these ever increasing costs, is to raise the minimum wage. The better solution would be to HEAL the wound by DECREASING the over regulations, over taxation, and uncontrollable “fees” on businesses that are slight inconveniences to those making the big bucks but the California financially challenged will continue to disproportionally pick up the costs “camouflaged” at businesses.

Throwing money as a band aid to cover the rising costs for everyone buys votes for reelection, but does not heal the wound of why the costs are rising.

That’s like the question I always pose to these economic dunces. “Well if $15 is OK with you, why not $100? That IS a living wage. Why settle for less? If a “living wage” is the goal, that’s what it ought to be”. Usually stammering in reply.

Yeah, then we could all be rich. Just like Zimbabwe.

http://banknoteworld.com/shop/Zimbabwe-100-Trillion-Dollar-Banknote.html

The little people will rule California for a long long time. Your going to pay to bring equity for the poor and exploited. Ripping off hapless service orkers is over.

As far as your scanners and robots…bring them on. Service sector efficency is a nagging problem. Perhaps robots are helpful on mundane tasks.

Well, why stop there?
And, while we are at it, why not just print more money? All it takes is paper, ink and a press. Then we would all have way more money than we would ever need.

Ooooo, good questions.
I’ll be the correct answers are:
1a: Not enough. That is because no matter how much revenue government receives, it is NEVER enough.
1b: Yes, or they would be against it, wouldn’t they?
2: Well, perhaps for about five minutes until the cost of living rises past the percentage gain from the increase.

To your parting comment:
If you can read you can educate yourself by borrowing books from the library. It doesn’t cost anything to do this except for transportation if you don’t walk and you return your books on time. Even if you don’t it is still cheaper to do it this way. Plus you won’t have to suffer through all the indoctrination exercises that pass for education nowadays.