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>>11183475
>I live in austin where the cost of living is super high
>No service workers can live here because of this so theres huge labor shortage in every service industry.
Driven by the housing market because everyone is making a mad dash for the cities.

>All of this hurts business and tax reveue overall overtime, but myopic buisness owners being the selfish hoarders they are, refuse to pay their workers more because of the hit they would take in the short term
>paying continuous sum of $15 to people who are likely to have no insensitive to stay when they could make a better wage else where

>Contrary to popular belief, rich people put far less money into the economy than they take out compared to lower middle class and poor people. If we increase wages to match economic growth we can stabalize social security and other long term funding for infrastructure/education.
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