07-04-2017, 05:20 AM
(07-04-2017, 01:31 AM)SickBeast Wrote: Agenda or not, you are incredibly stubborn and you try to no end to convince others to agree with your opinions. You claim to vote for the Democrats but pretty much everything I see you post comes from the right side of the political spectrum. Perhaps that is partly because I am Canadian and even the left end of the spectrum there is about as far right as things get here for the most part. I suppose the crux of my point is that I have *never* seen you budge from any of your opinions. I have never seen anyone else sway you. I find that you tend to argue to the bitter end about just about anything and everything, with anyone who will engage you (cough...gstanford...cough).
Anyhow, I do hope all is well. You're not going to change any time soon. So long as things are moderately peaceful around here and at BTR I am happy.
What would the agenda be? I don't want anyone to vote for Republicans until they run a more moderate candidate who is in step with modern times on social issues.
I only comment on this because from a small business perspective doubling the minimum wage does not work and we need small business for the reasons noted.
If you own a small business with the equivalent of 5 full time employees you have to give a $7/hour raise to, that is $280/week X 5 X 52 = $72800 out of your profits.
If you're making $125,000 a year in your small business, who is actually going to say, "Well, the jig is up. The minimum wage wasn't fair, so my investing $300K of my retirement savings to open this restaurant now pays me $50,000 a year instead of $125,000 a year. Sucks to be me I guess."
And that's IF the place was earning $125K profit. A lot of small businesses don't but they are worth it to the owners because they churn out $75K-$125K a year. They basically bought a job and being their own boss.
I will never change, unless someone can show me the error of my logic.
https://smallbiztrends.com/2010/11/how-m...-make.html
Quote: The figure shows that the average S corp generated about $100,000 income on about $1.5 million in sales in the last year before the Great Recession.
Also:
http://www.aei.org/publication/the-publi...-too-high/
Some guys like Dave (who don't own businesses) yelling about how "those guys have lots of money, they're just greedy!" doesn't make it true.
Prove me wrong with statistics that show small retailers and restaurant owners are making hundreds of thousands and I'll gladly admit I was wrong.