Six wage protesters arrested at Logan Terminal E

Name-calling principles and ideologies as "tired" "overused" and "useless" just because you disagree with them may work on two-year-olds and True Believers, but it really doesn't work on anyone with more than half a brain.

American exceptionalism is false? Prove it. Point by point. Pretend you're in geometry class. Can't do it? Then you've got nothing. Move on.

The free market doesn't work? Prove it, and more importantly, explain away all the obvious cases where it does work, like the fact that the supermarkets are full of food, the best buy is full of kitchen appliances, and the home depot has tomato plants on sale every june. And I do mean all of them.

Also, don't confuse me with The Donald. I know it's hard, but even chimps and two-year-old humans have the ability to distinguish between the mental states and identities of distinct people. Embrace your inner human (or chimp, if that's your thing), I know you can do it!

And now some more serious lessons:

You don't need to source 1+1=2. Because it, and everything that derives from it is true by virtue of itself.

You shouldn't cite "studies" about hot-button political issues produced or paid for by groups with an overt political agenda and call it objective.

You shouldn't cite studies whose broad strokes come down to "let me and my friends decide for you because I said so". I believe there's also a lesson about the shell games by the bus station that's related to that one.

The two things I learned from all my apparently deficient education in formal and applied mathematics is that statistics can and will be abused to show anything and confirmation bias is everywhere.

to North Dakota when the price of oil ticks up again?

At some point, those making $15 an hour will lose some sort of government subsidized assistance since they would no longer be below or at the poverty line? (Assuming at least some mim wage workers will be above this line after an increase)

See my looong comment above. Yes they will no longer qualify.

Raising the minimum wage requires the companies to stop turning to their payroll as a source of profit margin. They will have to innovate, see stock declines, or raise prices. Of course you've now potentiated a LOT more consumers by giving them a salary that allows them to spend (it's known that increases in salary for the poor all gets spent, so the money circulates). So, you have more consumers, more demand, prices can stay low due to volume of sales going up. Mandatory wage increases almost always come out of profitability which companies have been abusing to make their company owners more money in any way possible and less to do with innovation/improving the market.

None of this requires more money to be printed. These days "printing more money" just puts more money in investors hands to flip stock, etc. and never even finds its way to the lower classes. It's a great source of pumping up the economy but it does next to nothing to wages, pricing, etc.