Want lower taxes? Support higher wages. [View all]
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/want-lower-taxes-support-higher-wages/
This is an argument you can use with teabagger types, and win.
Snips:
That is the deal, Cranky Nation: for years, places like McDonalds, Walmart and suchlike have been paying such low wages, even their best workers are obliged to use taxpayer-funded services like food stamps, HEAP, and medical cards to keep a roof over their heads. Its gotten to be so common, even bank workers are frequently on public assistance. Banks. Where the money is. Even they wont pay their people a living wage.
That means, in short, these businesses are making we, the taxpayers, pay their bills, while they pad their bank accounts. Your tax dollars, being stolen to pay the bills that businesses are too greedy to pay themselves. That means higher taxes for all of us, meaning less money in our pockets."
Not everyone cares about social justice, sad to say. But almost everyone objects to being robbed.
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