After nearly two whole pages of
dis-cussing an
Increaing Minimum Wage, Pat,
Can we buy an S?
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Originally Posted by J81
The cost of production does not increase 30% because your minimum wage went up by that same amount. But every aspect of getting raw products into your home is going to go up essentially making the products u buy more expensive. Certainly not by 30% but definitely more then inflation.
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Cost of shit always goes up. You should see how expensive plastics have gotten with the higher oil prices. Labour isn't the only factor in cost of doing business by far, it's rarely even the highest. Most of the price increases in food isn't related to wages, it's related to gas, and that's unrelated to minimum wage because the only people in that industry paid so little are pumping it at the station with a 0.9% profit margin. Increasing numbers of truck drivers are being paid low wages but the cost of shipping only goes
up.