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Need help from former MFS (MyFreedomSmokes) customers
Has any found a supplier or company that has tobacco e-juice like or very similar to MFS Turbosmog, Tall Paul, or Red Luck?
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Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch-Part Six
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MIL is doing well after her surgery.
I managed to get a summer flu and spent a solid week miserable. I still don't have much energy but I am on the mend. Slow but sure wins the race.
Great to hear 'bout your MIL, not so much fer your flu!
How long til ya get home?
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Lol, I'm sitting for 3 small pups that try to crowd into my lap together. Or under the covers together. Then they want to play. One is a newly rescued unfixed female. The other 2 are fixed boys. Guess what? Ok, that's NOT playing! At least they get along....
Early analysis of Seattle’s $15 wage law: Effect on prices minimal one year after implementation | UW Today
The point of my original post surrounding a $15 minimum wage dealt with the working poor / families that, in too many cases are subsidized by tax dollars in order to get by .. as far as teens making $15 an hour flipping burgers, I believe about 25% of the workforce making the Fed Minimum falls into the under 20 age group, most all part time .. 75% being over 20 ..
To get above the poverty line with a 40-hour week, the minimum wage would need to go above $10. At 29 hours a week, which many employers shoot for, it would need to make it to $15 an hour ..
As well, raising the Minimum Wage is not an overnight process ..
The second part of that post dealt with re-distribution of wealth .. of which, we also have clear evidence that "trickle down" does not work ::
The interesting thing that happened when Kansas cut taxes and California hiked them
Those minimum wage workers who can’t make enough and need to go on food assistance? Well, Walmart isn’t paying for those food stamps (now called SNAP), you are. The annual bill that states and the federal government foot for working families making poverty-level wages is $153 billion. A single Walmart Supercenter costs taxpayers between $904,542 and $1.75 million per year in public assistance money .. in many states Walmart employees are the largest group of Medicaid recipients. They are also the single biggest group of food stamp recipients. In other words, those everyday low prices at the chain are, in part, subsidized by your tax money. Meanwhile, an estimated 18 percent of food stamps (SNAP) are spent at Walmart..
And for those worried about prices going up :: raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would mean a Big Mac would cost all of 17 cents more according to the stats ..
The cost of living is always rising, the value of a new minimum wage begins to fall from the moment it is set .. this is part of the discomfort within much of the Country as it relates to stagnant wages and economic growth ..
While I may be in the Minority on this, it just seems wrong in a society as wealthy as ours that a person working full-time can’t get above the poverty line. It seems no less wrong that someone who is willing to work for the lowest wage legally payable must also give up so much of his or her self-respect and dignity as a kind of tariff.
As I stated in my earlier post, Fat Cats raking in huge salaries and bonus deals do not stimulate the Economy, trickle down has not worked .. ordinary people with more money to spend do stimulate the economy and growth ..
The question being, for those of us here that are of a certain age, can you say that the children born now have as much or more economic opportunity than we did back in the 1950's, 1960's .. ??
This is a wonderful topic here on Independence Day, 2016 ..
The point of my original post surrounding a $15 minimum wage dealt with the working poor / families that, in too many cases are subsidized by tax dollars in order to get by .. as far as teens making $15 an hour flipping burgers, I believe about 25% of the workforce making the Fed Minimum falls into the under 20 age group, most all part time .. 75% being over 20 ..
To get above the poverty line with a 40-hour week, the minimum wage would need to go above $10. At 29 hours a week, which many employers shoot for, it would need to make it to $15 an hour ..
As well, raising the Minimum Wage is not an overnight process ..
The second part of that post dealt with re-distribution of wealth .. of which, we also have clear evidence that "trickle down" does not work ::
The interesting thing that happened when Kansas cut taxes and California hiked them
Those minimum wage workers who can’t make enough and need to go on food assistance? Well, Walmart isn’t paying for those food stamps (now called SNAP), you are. The annual bill that states and the federal government foot for working families making poverty-level wages is $153 billion. A single Walmart Supercenter costs taxpayers between $904,542 and $1.75 million per year in public assistance money .. in many states Walmart employees are the largest group of Medicaid recipients. They are also the single biggest group of food stamp recipients. In other words, those everyday low prices at the chain are, in part, subsidized by your tax money. Meanwhile, an estimated 18 percent of food stamps (SNAP) are spent at Walmart..
And for those worried about prices going up :: raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would mean a Big Mac would cost all of 17 cents more according to the stats ..
The cost of living is always rising, the value of a new minimum wage begins to fall from the moment it is set .. this is part of the discomfort within much of the Country as it relates to stagnant wages and economic growth ..
While I may be in the Minority on this, it just seems wrong in a society as wealthy as ours that a person working full-time can’t get above the poverty line. It seems no less wrong that someone who is willing to work for the lowest wage legally payable must also give up so much of his or her self-respect and dignity as a kind of tariff.
As I stated in my earlier post, Fat Cats raking in huge salaries and bonus deals do not stimulate the Economy, trickle down has not worked .. ordinary people with more money to spend do stimulate the economy and growth ..
The question being, for those of us here that are of a certain age, can you say that the children born now have as much or more economic opportunity than we did back in the 1950's, 1960's .. ??
This is a wonderful topic here on Independence Day, 2016 ..
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Happy Independence Day, USA!
I asked Google The Great to find proof that it costs more to live in Canada than in the US, but couldn't find one. There were, however, endless sources saying that the opposite is true. This includes an article published today:
The Canada-U.S. Price Gap Is Gone
I asked Google The Great to find proof that it costs more to live in Canada than in the US, but couldn't find one. There were, however, endless sources saying that the opposite is true. This includes an article published today:
The Canada-U.S. Price Gap Is Gone
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I hear ya,unc. It's a big catch-22.
Reagan lowered corp taxes thinking their profits would go to expansion and workers. Well, it did. For about a year. Then they decided they'd rather a new yacht than helping employees.
The opposite of lowering corp taxes works better. They can get out of paying some of them if they expand or raise workers pay. But... try and get them raised back today. The only way is to raise minimum wages and simply prolong the agony.
Reagan lowered corp taxes thinking their profits would go to expansion and workers. Well, it did. For about a year. Then they decided they'd rather a new yacht than helping employees.
The opposite of lowering corp taxes works better. They can get out of paying some of them if they expand or raise workers pay. But... try and get them raised back today. The only way is to raise minimum wages and simply prolong the agony.
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Don't believe everything yooo reed.
Cost of goods (if you can even get them) is sky high comparatively speekin. If you can even get it. Think of 33 million people here vs 330 million in the states.
I'll add :: The Presumptive Republican Nominee who would impose placing a 35% tariff on Imports, if enacted, would do substantially more harm to inflation and growth than raising the minimum wage .. because, guess who will pay that tariff .. ??
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But I couldn't find even one source that backed your personal opinion. That's why I like it when people provide source evidence for their statements, with a shout out to @Uncle Willie, who often does just that.Don't believe everything yooo reed.
Yes, there are some goods that are much more expensive in Canada than in the US, but the converse is also true. Cherry-picking specific items can be used by either side of the coin, but to get an accurate view you have to look at everything.
Here's a site where you can compare the cost of living not only between countries but between different cities in those different countries:
Cost Of Living Comparison Between Canada And United States
The areas where the huge differences exist are pretty clear.
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Ah, but do they take into consideration that the CAD $ is worth .74 (which obviously varies from time to time) cents compared to the USD?
Unless a deal has been cut, I hear the Canadian Postal folks are planning a strike .. ?? I'll refrain from any discussion on the Union Busting tactics that happen regularly in the USA these days .. for now, anyway ..
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