Discussion: Tom Coburn: I Don't Believe There Should Be A National Minimum Wage

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Kind of ironic coming from a man who is guaranteed $174,000 per year.

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And this is coming for a man who has the best part-time job in the world. It pays very well and has an excellent medical and retirement plan. Sucking up to his corporate masters is paying off very well for him….for the masses not so much.

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Encourage lazy behavior? If it’s been “shown” I’m sure you have peer-reviewed proof of that, right? No, I didn’t think so.
Prevent job creators from thriving? So they’re hurting now, with the DJIA at record levels?

This is a pathetic excuse for a troll…Freedom for U and Fvck everyone else, right?

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I wonder what Jesus would say about Christians, like Tom Coburn, supporting capital punishment.

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This is the person Timmy Paw wants Democrats to negotiate with to reach a ‘reasonable solution’.

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Of course Coburn doesn’t believe there ought to be a national minimum wage; he wants Oklahoma (and Texas, too, I suppose) to steal jobs from other states by undercutting wage levels and providing a union-hostile environment.

“The fact is if you look at the OMB studies and you look at the good economic models, the benefit is small. The cost of lost jobs is great,” he added.

Actually, I believe the studies say pretty much the opposite. Certainly there is no evidence of any tremendous cost in jobs from raising the minimum wage within reasonable limits.

We don’t know what the minimum wage should be. How’d they pick $10.10? Why not $22? Why not $100?"

I believe $10.10 was calculated by applying the cost of living increases to the previous minimum wage, and also because it was pretty much in line with the level of higher minimum wage that some states have enacted. It wasn’t just pulled out of the air.

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Tom Coburn in a minute: “I like the death penalty and don’t like poor people, so I’m going to lie about the half-century plus of statistical evidence proving me wrong, and make other shit up.”

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“It’s an unfortunate thing, but any time you’re doing something with a body, things can go wrong,”

I don’t ever want this quack within 200 miles of my personal space…

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There is no such thing as “The Free Market”. In the days of Adam Smith there was no free market. He knew it way back then.