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| Topic | The US economy continues to boom as unemployment falls to 3.9% |
| TheMikh 08/03/18 10:33:24 AM #27: | newtonwuzvirgin posted... "living wage" aka "nice house, car, clothes, electronics, fine dining every night wage" to be fair a sensible living wage might actually manage to cover those kinds of things if the cost of domestic production wasn't obscenely inflated by heaps of red tape zoning inflates the value of housing - just look at the bay area clothes and electronics would be far cheaper if produced here at a similar price by virtue of the fact that it wouldn't need to be shipped from overseas manufacturers and all the expenses and complexities associated with that dining - and any kind of business that depends on having a physical presence like stores and factories - would be less expensive if restaurants didn't have to deal with property taxes, never mind the aforementioned red tape affecting costs along the entire supply chain --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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