-$15/hr min wage expands the economy at the base, increasing demand, therefore increasing the market size for small businesses.
Besides, one taxes a business differently than an individual.
Now, a marginal tax rate on personal income is on money you've earned over a certain threshold. So you'd pay lower tax on money earned below the threshold.
-Germany finds that the ROI of paid college for its citizens in taxes is six times what the country pays for said college.
-Our current system of for-profit insurance actually costs considerably more than Medicare For All is projected to. There have been multiple studies.
-Since about 45,000 people die per year from lack of insurance (Harvard study), saying that you'll have to wait longer for routine appointments if the poors can go to the doctor?
You're essentially saying you'd rather have people die than wait longer.
-So that's the thing. I can set down the logic of why giving people this stuff, investing in our citizens, actually is a financially better decision in the long-term than just ignoring them.
But you've made an illogical, emotional decision about what people deserve.
You're not running on logic, you're running on ingrained cultural norms.
