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He pays interns more than one and a half times the current federal minimum wage and for that you are all up in arms. As a poster a few posts up said, you guys get all bent out of shape over $12 an hour for what is normally an unpaid position, but get positively irate at the very thought of paying people who are working 40 plus hours a week and trying to support their families a living wage.
Your faux outrage is noted and dismissed.
It is hypocritical when he is pushing a $15+ federal minimum wage.
It is hypocritical when he is pushing a $15+ federal minimum wage.
Good for the goose and all.
College interns are not subject to minimum wage laws and very very rarely are they raising other human beings. Read twice if you need to.
I agree it would be hypocritical if he was paying full time employees $12/hour or even if he was paying the interns nothing (which is usually the case, even for huge corporate and banking conglomerates that can afford a lot more than maybe the poorest politician in th US.)
College interns are not subject to minimum wage laws and very very rarely are they raising other human beings. Read twice if you need to.
I agree it would be hypocritical if he was paying full time employees $12/hour or even if he was paying the interns nothing (which is usually the case, even for huge corporate and banking conglomerates that can afford a lot more than maybe the poorest politician in th US.)
So, adults with families who return to college shouldn't get a livable wage while gaining experience?
So, adults with families who return to college shouldn't get a livable wage while gaining experience?
Now you're trying to make stories to fit your agenda.
Most college interns come from well off families who are already paying their way.
How are adults with families affording college to begin with ?
If they are working they are certainly not going to quit to do a 3-4 month unpaid internship.
Sort of like arguing that we need to get our deficit under control but then arguing to invade more countries and defending useless wars?
Where I disagree with those who argue for a high minimum wage is for a national minimum wage. One may need $15 an hour in NYC but not so in Portland Maine.
The problem is, many (not Bernie, he was against it) that argue for these wages caused the reasons people can't make it on $8.00 an hour.
I'm all for raising the national minimum wage to around $10/hr but I don't try to underpay my staff like Bernie does...difference between a Liberal/Socialist and a Libertarian I guess.
I'm all for raising the national minimum wage to around $10/hr but I don't try to underpay my staff like Bernie does...difference between a Liberal/Socialist and a Libertarian I guess.
As pointed out, he is paying them $12 an hour more than many.
So, adults with families who return to college shouldn't get a livable wage while gaining experience?
Sure they should (in that rare case), but that can be addressed after we institute policies to save our Middle Class which is the pressing issue-an issue in which Bernie Sanders seems to be the only politician willing to address.
I don't think Federal Minimum wage laws are the answer but I think there should be a $15 minimum wage for any multi-national corporation that wants to do business in this country. We are the largest consumer group on the planet here in the US, and we shouldn't come so cheap to these detached parasites that realize record profits by cozying up to our Government and the Federal Reserve.
No more subsidizing the livelihoods for employees of these parasitic institutions that infiltrate our Government, purchase the whoring politicians and use our military as their own.
Nothing hypocritical about it, because if he wins, they will further the cause.
Working for a campaign has a volunteer aspect to it.
They aren't only working like a job, but also volunteering for his campaign.
Now you're trying to make stories to fit your agenda.
Most college interns come from well off families who are already paying their way.
How are adults with families affording college to begin with ?
If they are working they are certainly not going to quit to do a 3-4 month unpaid internship.
So now interns shouldn't be paid because they are possibly related to someone who has money.
Who knew pay should be predicated on the amount of money my parents have.
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