$15 x 8 hr = $120
Subtract Federal Tax
Subtract State Tax
Subtract Social Security and Medicare
Subtract Co Payment for Insurance
Subtract actual sales tax on what is left
Subtract fuel tax on gasoline purchased
Subtract Tax on Utilities
Now look at what's left - THEN
divide your rent by 30 and see
what it cost you per day to live in your residence
look at your gas and elect bill and see
what it cost you per day
look at your weekly food expense and divide it by 7 to
get your daily cost (then multiply that time 52 to get a year cost)
look at your personal hygiene needs and self maintenance products and services -
add up the daily cost, by dividing your monthly expense by 30.
look at your communication expense (yes, its valid in the age of cell phones and internet, one needs communication accessibility) divide that expense by 30 and
get your daily cost.
If you have child care divide your weekly expense by 7 and
get your daily cost
If you have a car payment, divide it by 30 and
get your daily cost.
If you have car insurance divide it by 30 and
get your daily cost
If you buy fuel for a vehicle, add up your monthly cost and divide it by 30 and
get your daily cost.
Don't forget to add in the cost of life insurance, add up your monthly cost and divide it by 30 and
get your daily cost.
Don't forget to add in the cost for Burial Insurance, add up your monthly cost and divide it by 30 and
get your daily cost.
One will find very quickly that, $15 an hour is the basic minimum they will need to have a life and sustain it.
Now if you have children - Add in the cost incurred monthly for 1 child, 2, or more.
One will quickly find that $56-58 a day is not even near meeting needs. then they can understand why so many need public assistance. The employer is the one screwing the public, by using the people and paying them less that what it cost to maintain and sustain themselves, and then the employer depends on the government to provide public services to cover what he has not paid the employee enough to cover.
Example: Walmart has done it for decades and made billions, while they force people to rely on government assistance, at the same time walmart is pocketing money that should be paid to the employee, and all walmart does is build stores near business to run the other entrepreneurs out of business.
Walmart has hid $76 billion off shore,
over the years, its probably close to what Walmart owes the US government for covering expense for employee that walmart did not pay them enough to cover.
but the bigots, don't think this deeply, they just want to complain and put others down as their delusion of assuming it makes them better than another.
Those complaining about people needing $15 an hour should have their head examined, and get over the lust for trying to turn people into indentured servants or forcing people to live in conditions as near to slaves as possible.
All these people talking about skills, should shut up. Most jobs are designed for common sense performance, decades ago jobs were designed for 5th and 6th grade education level, management was not even designed for above 10th grade education levels. and even today, many people claim degrees, but have minimal skills. I've seen some of the worst non formatted and poorly formatted documents produced by people claiming degrees. It's purely insidious.
Today, jobs have guidelines for how they want a job done, and they put it in simple language, that is not above 10th grade comprehension level. Even the Tech companies, were seeking more self taught people, who had not be twisted with university string along and drag out programs which leave the person with nothing more than entry level skills levels. Those who specialize and invest their time to become proficient are the ones who excel, but it does not even take that to get a degree now days, it simply takes follow the scrip and show up.
For those complaining, let them go work at a fast food place
and ACTUALLY DO THE WORK, and see if they still want to complain about not being paid $15 hr.
It's pathetic how some come and flip their lips by typing in a blog script and only result to exhibit their haughtiness and bigoted mentalities and ready to deny someone else something.
There are those who want to come talking about crap from 30-40 yrs ago. as if the world has not changed, and they talk as if inflation does not exist. That's the level of imbeciles who come to these post whining about wanting to deny people a functional living wage. They should stop grandstanding and pay attention, and learn to respect other people and the conditions and challenges within life and living.
But some still think in Antebellum Confederate terms... they can't get over their lust for the days and times of slavery and segregation where they could use people for nothing, or hire poor whites for pennies while they wallow in luxury at the expense of the poor whites who worked for indentured level servant wages.
MLK said it best:
Quote:
|
"it was a simple thing to keep the poor white masses working for near-starvation wages in the years that followed the Civil War. Why, if the poor white plantation or mill worker became dissatisfied with his low wages, the plantation or mill owner would merely threaten to fire him and hire former Negro slaves and pay him even less. Thus, the southern wage level was kept almost unbearably low."
|
Too many people still think in these terms, especially those who fight against raising the minimum wage, Some of them are the same ones who complain about Illegal Immigration, but they have no problem, hiring the illegal immigrant, and telling the American worker who complains about his wage, that he can be fired, and replaced with illegal immigrants for 1/4 the rate. It's a repeat of the exact thing MLK tried to tell people long ago, only now, instead of using ex slaves as a threat, they use the hiring of Illegal Immigrants as a threat.
You want fair wages, then FORCE the politicians to establish Immigration Reforms, so the Immigrants as they process to become legal, also become paid the wages as they complete the process. Then, companies large and small can't use the Illegals Immigrants to force wages to be low.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
