Raising a family on minimum wage? (suspect, percentage, presidency, market)
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You have to being able to put two and two together. All the same you said prices didn't go up. They did. I'm not that interested in what you eat.
Mine isn't an argument that what we did was good either.
So I should FORCE a result from the article that isn't there....gotcha.
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Originally Posted by PedroMartinez
First, is $10 an hour a living wage? Do you feel this is enough?
Second, you don't understand that when just a city here or there does a limited increase, it would not have the same effect as a large national increase. This has to do with both the amount and the interaction with the rest of the supply chain. If Seattle was it's own economy, your example would be valid, but since Seattle gets so much from areas outside that aren't under the same constraints, it's a false comparison.
No I don't think that's enough. I think 35k a year is enough...I live off less than that with a wife and soon to be 4 kids and we make it. So that should be more than enough for a normal family to live off of. Oh and that article wasn't about Seattle it was about Albuquerque and San Francisco among others.
Lol no you didn't. Price of gas has gone down that means we should lower the min wage! Your logic doesn't make sense. Price of MEAT and GRAIN goes up and down depending on how much product there is. Not depending on who gets paid what.
Lol no you didn't. Price of gas has gone down that means we should lower the min wage! Your logic doesn't make sense. Price of MEAT and GRAIN goes up and down depending on how much product there is. Not depending on who gets paid what.
Prices went up. It was argued for years that oil was so high because of supply and demand. We know that to be a bogus argument. Have you ever seen a shortage of beef or bread at the grocers? No.
Do you realize that the tax code of the 1950s allowed crazy exemptions and deductions that do not exist anymore? And that no one, NO ONE paid a tax rate of 92%.
You are correct. The top marginal rate is meaningless. The actual rate paid is all that matters.
Still ridiculous for a little water poured over some coffee beans. Yes, people pay that here in some places. I make more than $24 an hour and I'm not about to pay $3-4 for a cup of coffee.
I like Tim Horton coffee but when the minimum wage went up in Ohio the first of the year a medium went up to $1.70. I'm done buying it.
I pay $3 for my coffee in the US, though I also drink amazing coffee. Though when I am at home I just make my own coffee which costs me much less obviously.
The government can disincentivize having children people can't afford instead of incentivizing it which they do now. Those tax credits based on children people can't afford and those extra payments based on number of children people have should be done away with. If people only have kids they can afford, eventually there will be a bidding war for workers and higher pay.
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