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Because I think you're lying. Very few people work for minimum wage and if you're working two jobs, you certainly seem to have a lot of time to sit around on the Internet.
I'm interested to glean what type of jobs people who are supposedly working for pennies are working.
We are all paying more for gas, food, clothes, etc now. There are still a lot of jobs that barely pay $9.00 an hour. I work two jobs one pays $10. and the pays $9.25. The lower wage job did pay $10 an hour but they cut pay because they are greedy little ****s ! So a lot of people quit I stayed because we were still working OT.
Now they have cut that and for now I’m stuck there until I can find something else.
Everyone thinks that this is a cut and dry problem, it’s not.
$15.00 and hr would free up a lot of time for me and I wouldn’t have to work two jobs unless I wanted too.
We are all paying more for gas, food, clothes, etc now. There are still a lot of jobs that barely pay $9.00 an hour. I work two jobs one pays $10. and the pays $9.25. The lower wage job did pay $10 an hour but they cut pay because they are greedy little ****s ! So a lot of people quit I stayed because we were still working OT.
Now they have cut that and for now I’m stuck there until I can find something else.
Everyone thinks that this is a cut and dry problem, it’s not.
$15.00 and hr would free up a lot of time for me and I wouldn’t have to work two jobs unless I wanted too.
If the government would just wire transfer $100 million into everyone's accounts, we could all spend every moment with family at home.
The fiat minimum wage is a dishonest fraud and con, and Bernie is smart enough to know this. An honest version of the minimum wage would be modeled on federal agriculture price supports, where the market price is allowed to float up or down according to supply-demand. But if the market price dips below a certain minimum level, the taxpayer makes up the difference with a subsidy payment to farmers.
The ag-price supports actually help the intended target (famers). The fiat minimum wage demonstrably hurts the intended target (low skilled workers).
NY, California and other states are free to increase the minimum wage to a higher level than $15. It doesnt have to be a flat minimum wage. Thats just a myth. The federal level by 2025 is meant to be a wage floor.
NY, California and other states are free to increase the minimum wage to a higher level than $15. It doesnt have to be a flat minimum wage. Thats just a myth. The federal level by 2025 is meant to be a wage floor.
What's wrong with just making that floor $100 an hour?
If we are going to pick arbitrary numbers in order to allow more free time, isn't $100 better than $15?
Getting skills, education, having drive is not going to be a choice.
A taxi driver makes $12.50 an hour, a dishwasher typically makes $11 an hour, a restaurant cook makes $12.80 an hour, tour and travel guides make $12.80, recreation workers (like RV parks and civic organizations) make $12, a hair dresser makes $11.90 an hour, ambulance drivers typically make $12.40 an hour.
These are typical jobs in America. People who constantly chastise ordinary workers for being lazy and lacking skills and drive most likely are just afraid that they will have fewer people to look down upon if the working class get a $15 minimum wage and a decent standard of living.
What's wrong with just making that floor $100 an hour?
If we are going to pick arbitrary numbers in order to allow more free time, isn't $100 better than $15?
Thats just silly. $100 an hour is not in line with the national income at all.
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