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  1. +Andrew Holker I gave Cameron a book to read when he asked for evidence. It is a book written by two professors that cite peer review articles. His reaction was "you want me to read a book?". This guy has no desire to learn. He is a typical Bernie supporter, lazy and wants everything handed to them.
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  2. Yep, raise it to $15/hr and see jobs disappear.
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  3. +Cameron _ _ If you increase enrollment those students have to have someplace to live. And most remedial courses are full. Why do states back out? They backed out of Obamacare. "Your questions are hypothetical questions that should be dealt with if it happens." They should be thought of now. We can't create a mess and hope it gets solved. "There are an infinite number of scenarios that could happen." Nope, it is clear what will happen. "Anything can happen, but it's stupid to dread on possibilities when that's the least important issue" You take steps so you don't die on a roller coaster. Here with free college you are not. " The issue here is just student loan debt ruining the lives of millions of students looking to start their adult life clean" It doesn't ruin lives of millions of students, and what is "start their adult life clean"? They don't have to go to college? They can instead get a home loan. College is actually really cheap, especially if you decide to go to a JC or CC or smaller colleges. Mine cost $10,000 a year if you included summer classes. "Obviously the united states has no problem allocating billions of dollars to 'fight' zika virus, so why wouldn't they have a problem adding another billion to the tuition budget." Different things. One you are investing to produce something. In "free college" supply won't meet demand. It is comparable to you paying 10 people to build a house or paying 10 people to have one person build 10 houses.
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  4. +Cameron _ _ How many of those 3/5 actually finish college? Already you are exposing a flaw in "free college". Not everyone finishes so it becomes a waste. Tuition is high because of the federal student loan program. It artificially created a demand for college without increasing supply thus the price went up. "An employer doesn't give a shit if you're separate from the rest of the crowd" An employer does care if you are separate from the crowd. Getting a college degree shows that you are willing to develop a goal and work to complete it. You can be highly skilled but if you can't prove to work towards a goal than you won't get a job. If you make college free than is it really work at that point?
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  5. +Siberius Wolf You are taking a complex situation, in this case the economy, and limiting it down to the min. wage and McDonalds. "Of course we can go into boring tedious details but that's... boring." Of course you won't go into details because it will show that you are wrong in your reasoning. One is that if you include PPP then the min. wage of Australia is around $10.50. But if all it took was having more money for people to spend then why not $100/hr?
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  6. +Siberius Wolf $15/hr is pretty high when you consider that Bernie will also guarantee you healthcare and paid vacation. Why work hard when things are given to you? "and education would be free like many other countries " And inferior. There is a reason why the US has the largest percentage of international students. " so that's freedom to go into the fields people want to go into," Ok, I want to go into drinking beer and fishing. " America has a fucking lot of money" So does Zimbabwe. "large fast food companies recently discovered that when they got more money back when they treated their employees better," Actually almost every business has known about that.
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  7. +Siberius Wolf The economy is complex. If you want to keep it simple then let us imagine this. Say the government mandates a min. price on gas at $10/hr. Would more or less gas be bought? PPP is cost of living. Why would people all of a sudden not spend if they earn $100/hr? What about $50/hr? What is your reasoning for the $15/hr min. wage? If people are earning $100/hr they can buy new cars every year and expand on their homes and buy new clothes and eat out every day and so on.
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  8. +Siberius Wolf If I had healthcare paid for and vacation time then $15/hr is all I need. "people will still want to make more money and get an education and go into certain fields, because they are doing that." Not really. Places like Canada lack resources, we have less in the US. On international students it shows that if someone is going to study outside of their country they will pick the US. I want to only drink beer and fish. That is the lifestyle I want. I should get paid the min. wage to do so. Where is my freedom? Zimbabwe have trillion dollar bills. Business do know that. They simply can't afford higher wages.
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  9. +Cameron _ _ "Good thing Bernie's healthcare plan saves businesses over $5000 a year," How? " so they'll be able to afford to pay higher wages, " They won't if Bernie passes a higher payroll tax. "as well as americans would save thousands of dollars a year." How? "Jobs will not disappear" They will.
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  10. +Cameron _ _ If you raise the payroll tax then businesses would pay employees less because they simply can't afford the new tax. We was this when the payroll tax was increased in the 60s. Businesses countered by offering benefits. They wouldn't be able to do that now. And how would the cost of healthcare go down when you are putting more people on it? "Americans would save thousands of dollars a year because they will pay $0 for insurance, $0 in copays, $0 in hospital bills, $0 for prescriptions, $0 for oral care (dentistry), $0 for ear care, $0 for long term care, $0 for anything healthcare related" And taxes will go up, wages will go down, quality will be low and wait times would be longer. Not to mention that their taxes will go up. "Tell me exactly how, with evidence, that slashing the price businesses pay for healthcare saving around $9000 a year per worker, and raising the minimum wage to an acceptable level will make jobs disappear. " The min. wage one will be easy, that is econ. 101. I just told you about healthcare that higher taxes will mean lower wages and higher prices. Do you think these things will just magically appear out of nowhere?
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  11. +Andrew Holker Your airline pilot example brings up a great point and a flaw in Bernie's policies. He is pushing for "free college" and "free healthcare". As is we lack the staff and resources to offer those to everyone. In order to increase staff and resources we need people to be educated, especially in the STEM fields. But why work years in getting educate when you are guaranteed healthcare, and paid vacation, and at least $15/hr min. wage, and jobs from killing those trade agreements or from the government and so on? This is why people make fun of Bernie talking about his unicorn. Somehow we are magically going to have doctors and professors and resources to provide all of these things without people pursuing careers in them.
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  12. +Cameron _ _ Here it the link to that book on healthcare http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/-the-business-of-health_110115929760.pdf
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  13. +Cameron _ _ NY has some of the highest taxes in the US. You wanted evidence so I gave it to you. I am sorry you refuse to look at other sources and facts to expand your mind. I guess I should link you The Communist Manifesto? Or what about Mein Kampf?
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  14. +Siberius Wolf If you include PPP Australia has a lower min. wage than $17.29. And no, businesses can't afford it, especially smaller competitors. "Also everyone will be getting paid more and more money will be circulating, so there's more money for spending for business owners to make money" If that is all it took then how about we eliminate the middle man and just mail people checks for $20,000? There is a flaw in the min. wage, you are enforcing how much is paid per hour but not per week. How many of those in other countries work full time? In NY when the min. wage went up a Denny's was open 24 hours a day, it stopped and cut hours in doing so. So great, they are paying their workers more but are doing so in less hours. And on your spending idea, spending does not grow the economy, producing does. If spending grew the economy then why not $100/hr?
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  15. +Cameron _ _ The book is on healthcare, it isn't a general book. It gets into detail on healthcare. Insured does not equal care just like government offering your healthcare does not mean you will get it. The overall point of the book is the say that the US does have arguably the best healthcare system in the world. At this point you are replacing one system with problems with another system that has problems as well. You are not making any progress, you are wasting time which would be better spent on improving the system we have now.
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  16. +Cameron _ _ What is the point of going to single payer if it means the quality will be lower and wait times will be longer? It is replacing one problem with another. The tuition free college plan has even more headaches. One, how will you pay for it? Two, how will you make up for the lack of TAs, professors, classrooms, staff, etc? Three, how will you handle the NCAA? It isn't as easy as the federal government will pay for it then presto, all is better. Believe me, if it was then I will be all for it.
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  17. +Cameron _ _ Lots of unfilled seats? I see long wait lists for classes. In my university we are not allowing any upperclassman in the dorms. We lack TAs to where undergrads are doing it and the TA coordinator literally told me that they need "warm bodies". Not high quality TAs, just anyone. They hired an undergrad biology major to TA for physics. "Secondly, colleges go through professors like hot cakes. A lot of them are part time and they just hire new ones. " And we are still short. Plus those professors are near retirement or looking for full time jobs. "and his sub 1% tax on wall street speculation would provide enough funding to satisfy over 60 billion of that, and the rest of the funding would come from state ran programs such as shifting financial aid to pay for the socialized program instead, as well as other government grants" If it were that simple then I would be all over it, but it isn't. What are you going to do to prevent colleges from raising tuition? What if state decide not to pick up the rest of the tab? Never mind the other legit problems I listed, what about those now? Again, you have this false idea that all we have to do is raise taxes and then everything can be paid for. It isn't that easy. "Once again, the healthcare is not lower quality just because it's now free to access it." According to that book it isn't. "I'm sorry that you don't know how to comprehend common sense," Ah, the "common sense" response. That immediately shows you have no clue what you are talking about. You can't give a legit argument so you say "it is just common sense" which translate to "I don't know anything about the topic so I will just speak out of my ass".
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  18. +Siberius Wolf There are more factors that determine food prices than wages (Denmark does not have a min. wage BTW). You have supply and demand for example. Another is what hours are they open? Are they open 24 hours a day or only during peak hours? How many stores do they have? If they are limited in stores and limited in hours then they have limited staff who they can pay more but less people have jobs. An example of what I just said is Costco. People praise their higher wages but they only open during certain hours usually during peak times and have few stores. Thus their employees push out more units per hour. But there is also less convenience for certain customers. They are not open a 9 or 10 pm so if you want to buy something there you can't. Or due to their limited stores you have to drive a farther distance to shop there. So it isn't as easy as saying "they pay higher wages and have lower prices". Something has to give.
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  19. +Cameron _ _ Sometimes you have to take 2 steps back before you can go forward. Business owners took out loans to start their businesses. Debt happens. If you make college "free" more people will go, that is a fact.
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  20. +Cameron _ _ Without businesses there will be no jobs, so why not eliminate business loans as well? I see no difference between a business loan and an educational loan. In fact one can make a better argument in alleviating business loans because we need jobs and production for the economy go grow. High school is paid for and ran by the local governments, I see no comparison between that and the federal government running college.
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  21. +Siberius Wolf I know what you said, in Australia if you include PPP the min. wage is around $10/hr. "I don't think that's how they price gas... I'm not sure what you're saying actually..." Why should the government set a price on labor? That is what I am saying. When the government sets a price floor on something and that price floor is higher than what the market values those goods and services, then less people will buy it. With labor when you raise the min. wage the less people will get hired. If you raise the price of gas then less people will buy it. That is what I am getting at. It is all comparable. That is why when the min. wage was created black teenage unemployment went up drastically. That is because they have the lowest skills in the market. The price floor has priced them out of the market. Let us make another comparison, say it was a min. price on cars at $15,000. So many used cars will not get sold and thus simply go to dumps which causes waste. Same here with labor. Instead of those with low skills getting jobs, working, become productive and gaining skills to become even more productive, they are unemployed and it becomes a waste. "then they can easily save up a shitload of money and there's no guarantee they will spend enough of it to get the right amount of circulation because the balance is more likely to not be there." Then why $15/hr? And what makes you think they won't save it as is at $15/hr? You do know that when you save money in a bank that bank circulates that money as well in the forms of loans. So that isn't bad either. If people were earning $100/hr they will put it in banks. Those banks will loan out money so people buy more houses and cars. People with money in banks will collect interest thus they will have more money for retirement and retire early meaning more jobs for people. Damn, I feel we should now raise it to $200/hr. "people in Australia for example aren't settling for that if they have other options." The US is a more productive country so it is safe to assume that people are settling for low wage jobs in Australia. "Businesses can't afford to pay workers more?.. mega businesses have a fucking lot of money dude " Yes they do because they have shareholders to keep happy. They are as big as they are because of shareholders. Without them they will not be as big. Take Walmart for example, they are bigger than a company like Hy Vee or Raley's because of shareholders. The latter two companies pay comparable wages to that of Walmart and sell more expensive items. Walmart got as big as they are because they sell shares. If Walmart were to cut profits to overpay employees then the shareholders will sell back their shares causing the company to go bankrupt. Even at that why about smaller companies? Should they suffer just because you don't like bigger companies? "Cameron seems to know his shit," This is a guy who is using high school education, which is ran and funded locally, to justify the federal government running and funding colleges. I am sure he doesn't know too much.
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  22. +Siberius Wolf I also find it ironic because you don't seem to know what money is. Having more money in circulation does not increase the amount of food, clothes, energy, cars, homes, healthcare, apartments etc. we have. If all it took was circulating money then why not cut out the middleman and simply give everyone $20,000? What grows and economy is producing, not spending. If people had more money and there was more money in circulation but production was the same then prices will go up. If it was as simple as people getting more money then every general economics textbook would have to be re-written to say that, but they don't. Instead they talk about the inefficiencies of price setting.
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  23. +Siberius Wolf Why aren't loans a great means of circulation? It allows people's savings to grow with interest and allows people to purchase things they usually can't like homes or a business. You say $15/hr is not a lot of. The reality is that the vast majority of those earning $9.50/hr or less are not poor and live in a household that earns, on average, over $47,000 a year. You are paid the market rate, it is up to you to find out how to earn a living. "plus you said youself that our minimum wage isn't very high after PPP, so why would they settle for minimum wage." IDK, some people do and it is sad. People should push for higher skilled jobs because that grows the economy. "I would think Wallmart is rich enough to pay their employees more without losing so much money that they would lose shareholders, since they're seriously that rich.. well.. the richest family in America at least.. last time I checked." The Walton family is wealthy. Wealth does not equal income. The Walton family has so many assets that are valued high because they own half of Walmart. Walmart pays competitive wages and offers cheap products for people with low income to buy. I don't particularly like Walmart but there are benefits with them. "Smaller companies usually have less people to pay and if the circulation is there it will work out for everyone since more people will have more money to spend at their stores." Just because people have more money does not mean they will spend it more on those smaller companies.
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  24. +Siberius Wolf What's wrong with large purchases? "Why do some of the poorer people have like 3 jobs then" Very few people have 3 jobs. So little that is it insignificant. That $47,000 a year for a household comes from households where there is another earner who earns most of that. "If no one is buying stuff from the smaller companies, they just wouldn't survive anyway" It isn't just that, they can have customers but due to other factors they simply can't afford higher wages. What if their customers already earn well above the min. wage? You need to factor in that.
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  25. +Cameron _ _ If states want to offer "free" college then that is up to them. I do see an argument in it, but we can't let the fed. do it and 4 year colleges should not be considered. College is an investment to develop skills. It is a way to show employers you are willing to invest both time and money in bettering yourself and achieving a goal. When you remove that part of it the college degree decays. " They want better educated workers so they can be more productive" They want a work force with more skills. Studying education I feel that K-12 is not succeeding in developing skills. "but some job positions are unfilled because there aren't enough educated workers" Not enough skilled workers but I do agree. That should be an incentive to go to college for people. " " and the easiest way to fix that is to make it tuition free to go to college so a little more people will go. " It is not that easy because businesses will then view the degree to be of less value.
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  26. +Cameron _ _ Making the degree less rare will devalue it. It is a competitive market out there, what are you going to do go above and beyond. K-12 education is ran by the states already. So far not all 50 states have adopted CCSS. A major issue with it being at the federal level is that states are held back. Plus the excuse of people not being able to move is really lame. On the extreme case I had a friend move to one of the most expensive states in the US with no job in line and they made it. It isn't hard to move. "Do you have any other easy ways to make college debt free so everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed? " What is this equal opportunity to succeed? You are keeping it with just college. Why not give out money for others to start a business? My old boss dropped out of college after one semester, pulled out a loan and now runs a profitable business. Why not pay off his debt? Why does he have to live with debt? Because he refused to go to college? What about someone who wants to be an athlete? Do we just tell others to slow down so they can succeed? You are using appeal to emotion rhetoric. People have equal opportunity to pursue success, but you are not guaranteed it.
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  27. +Cameron _ _ But why education? Education is actually easily obtainable. Books are essentially free online and there are videos everywhere that can teach you whatever you want to learn. What is "reasonable tuition"? That has no set standard. You are now just making numbers up. Also the average student loan debt is around $28,000, not $50,000. 3/4 of people don't not possess a college degree. Having a college degree in the US is a minority. And why would an employee want something more? To separate you from the rest of the crowd.
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  28. +Cameron _ _ It is not necessarily working a job that is similar. I am a sports official for high school and college. When I apply for jobs I put that on my resume. It shows responsibility, the ability to communicate, being able to learn and being active. So it isn't about a job that is similar, having a job period means a lot.
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  29. +Cameron _ _ It would devalue a degree, more people having it means the supply is greater lowering it's value. That is econ 101. Businesses look at a lot to separate workers so they can hire them. I am working on going to pharmacy school after my current studies. Talking to pharmacists they say go extracurricular activities because that will separate you from the rest of the crowd. It is a competitive field so you need to do things to expand your resume. The reason why unemployment for those with a college degree is so low is because only around 30% of the nation has one, they are a rarity. Now compare that to unemployment for those with only a high school diploma.
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  30. +Cameron _ _ Personally knowing employers, looking for jobs, basic economics and statistics. Why do employers value college degrees so much? Because it separates you from everyone else. What do you do to separate your from others?
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  31. +Cameron _ _ What do you mean back up my claim? How many employers do you know? How many jobs have to went after? Have you even filled out a resume?
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  32. +Cameron _ _ Think about it, you are employer and you have 2 openings with 20 applications. All 20 have a college degree, how do you pick one? Now change it up to where only 10 have a college degree, now almost eliminate half at that point. In the former case the college degree is now not worth as much.
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  33. +Cameron _ _ Experience where? And how do you think people make the best case?
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  34. +Cameron _ _ I have seen the website. Healthcare cost is up due to the federal government tampering with healthcare. Three areas of the economy has seen increasing prices for the past couple decades, housing, healthcare and college. They are all three areas that the federal government has touches with the FHA, the payroll tax and medicaid and medicare, and the student loan program. Adding more government is going to make it worse. As is we lack doctors, nurses, hospitals and drugs in general. R&D is not cheap. How are you going to solve those problems? Trust me, it it was as easy a going to single payer then so many people would push for it. "He pays for it by the taxes, and ending tax loopholes that allow people to evade taxes legally. " It isn't that easy. "Where are you getting that from? In Canada, the UK, and other major european countries the healthcare is the same quality if not better. It's FAR more efficient and it doesn't put people into debt for getting surgery or some other procedure." The US has arguably the best healthcare system in the world and there are published articles in peer reviewed journals that support that. "People in the UK have shorter wait times than we do" 100% not true. You want evidence? Look up the book "The Business of Health" by Robert Oshfeldt and John Schneider I will send a link in another comment. "if someone 'gives' you $9000, and you have to pay a worker $9000 more a year, you can't afford it and jobs will just disappear out of thin air??? Maybe it's time for you to get an education, I'd like to talk to someone who knows their facts." Where is the $9000 going to come from when you raise taxes? And yes, jobs do disappear. In NY when the min. wage went up a Denny's cut hours by no longer being 24 hours a day. In Berkley the university just cut staff and it happens to correspond when the the min. wage went up. That is basic econ. 101
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