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Obama, on his proposed Minimum Wage Law: “You’re welcome…”

A follow-up to our discussion on this from the other day

Minimum Wage - youre welcome

(courtesy of the always fantastic Lisa Benson)

And I would add only one explicit corollary to this:

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Per CBO, Obama’s plan to raise Minimum Wage will DESTROY 500,000 jobs

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Congratulations, folks! At least half-a-million of you soon won’t be “stuck in a job” anymore…

Yay, you!!

(via Reuters) – “…Raising the U.S. federal minimum wage to $10.10, as President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress are proposing, could result in about 500,000 jobs being lost by late 2016, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated on Tuesday…”

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