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I did the reverse and found the same is true the other way.

I seriously would be interested on what topics you find the same thing.

I FORGOT to say minimum wages I just find it crazy that we provide the safety net for low wages for large profitable corporations and that they want to continue supplying workers for them on the backs of tax dollars.

I think you should put some time and effort into researching who in America works for a minimum wage, how long they work for minimum wage, what economists think about minimum wage. I typically find that if I find something 'crazy', and can't believe that 'the other side' would have such an ignorant view, it just means I don't understand the problem.

I see it all the time though that is anecdotal evidence.

I use to be a librarian and I do a lot of statistical work and analysis but I am not an expert but everything I have looked at that is anti-minimum wage I can usually always trace back the money to corporations or some private entity that feels they benefit from low wages. The Pro-Wealth and down trodden the poor has been going on for centuries and we are doing a better job BUT we can do so much better.

I fail to see the proper small government view of low wages. These people HAVE TO HAVE MONEY so instead of their job paying them tax payers are making up the slack. WIC,Health Care, Food Stamps would go away with higher wages but instead we continue to give the money to corporations.

It doesn't make much sense that I've provided you with anecdotal evidence, as I have not provided you with any evidence at all. My suggestion was that you do real research on the topic. You've made a number of generalizations that you should really research. Factor out just one of your statements and describe each item in it. 'These people HAVE TO HAVE MONEY' - who are these people and how much money should they have? How much are their jobs paying them and how much tax payer money is making up the slack? What is the slack? How do health care and food stamps go away with higher wages? What are 'higher wages' in this context? How are we giving money to the corporations? Who is we in this sentence? Once you start to answer those questions with real evidence, then you can come up with solutions to each of those problems, create models for how those solutions will impact other problems and existing solutions. I won't tell you what you'll find, and I doubt you'll actually follow through, but it is unlikely that you'll persuade anyone with the current form of your argument.

I think you may have misinterpreted baldfat's first sentence.

> I see it all the time though that is anecdotal evidence.

He's saying that he "sees it all the time," but he recognizes that this is only "anecdotal evidence."

> I seriously would be interested on what topics you find the same thing.

All the nation-wide issues that could easily be state issues.

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