Dems and long term mistakes.

[DeistPaladin]

Then somebody could get rid of the minimum wage for most people by setting the eligibility of food stamps at say income less than $1000 a year. Or the could raise the minimum wage by increasing eligibility for food stamps to say $100,000 a year.

Your proposal is complicated and ripe for abuse.

OK, that may be the dumbest thing you've posted to day, and you keep topping yourself like a ponzi scheme of stupid.

Food stamp eligibility is set by the poverty level in America and what would be basic subsistence. They're not set by arbitrary numbers just pulled out of the air by "somebody".

Do you have any evidence that people who worked 40 hours a week or more ever starved to death in this country?

Your sloppy and lazy reading habits are really getting annoying. I'm starting to understand why your such a dumb ass that you still believe in trickle down economics despite how its consistently failed on both a state and federal level.

I said nobody would ever work 40 hours a week just to starve to death, which is probably why nobody I'm aware of ever has.

If you're complaint is that food stamps are a subsidy for businesses....get rid of food stamps and then you won't be subsidizing businesses

...or we could raise the minimum wage until full time workers won't be eligible for food stamps.

Either way, following your plan or mine, wages and these corporations would have to increase because nobody would work for the current minimum wage without some means of feeding themselves. Since the minimum wage is going to be driven up by market forces under your austere, let-the-poor-starve plan, why not just do it with my plan and not have mass starvation in the US?

You're probably not old enough to remember(perhaps you weren't even born) but there was a time when we set the price of gas so that working families didn't have to spend all their income just to drive to work and back.....that turned out to be an utter disaster.

Apples and oranges.

I'm sorry I just don't have confidence in the government's ability to set an optimum minimum wage. The market seems to work so much better.

If you would read my posts, Sonnyboy, you'd see that the market would do the same thing if the government subsidy in the form of food stamps was taken away.

I'm really getting tired of spoon feeding a willfully lazy dipshit like you. Did you have a lot of problems with your school teachers getting aggravated by you not reading your assigned textbook?