Minimum wage still needs to be more than $7.25
A cheap plate of Chinese food that has a cost of $3 and requires 10 minutes to make shouldn't cost someone 1.5 hours of their life after taxes
I think $10 for minimum wage is fine, it's an hour of time for a meal and the gas or bus ticket that got you to work. Seems pretty fair to me
My wife had a part time job at Academy stocking heavy camo and doing trucks and she only got paid $7.25. A keyholder position at Godiva only paid her $10,and it included counting money, closing, running the deposit, and opening in the morning, plus dipping a crapton of strawberries. This is why we're completely confused by the people at Target who want $18 an hour to do the same thing or the McD people who want $15.
I still think minimum should be $10 though, and people should be happy about it.
You aren't working 1.5 hours to eat, you're working 1.5 hours for someone to make you food. You can eat plenty good on 1 dollar a day if you're cooking yourself. I've done it before while paying back college loans.
Also not everyone needs or deserves a car if they aren't going to benefit society enough to be compensated enough to own one. They're always free to start their own small business, it's hard but the loans are relatively easy to get.
Considering even major cities are specifically designed around automobile. Or that in the 50's (highway act of 1956) when America could have decided to build fast interstate rail and develop cities around public transport, we chose massive highway expansion, I don't think it's unreasonable to think even the lower middle class and low class deserve to drive even just a beater. The entire infrastructure is not made to be without a car, it's a sad reality.
This is one reason democrats want tougher emissions and to go all electric, because it puts poor people at a complete disadvantage when their old rides can't pass emissions or they start recycling old cars instead of parting them out (which means you can't go to the junkyard and get cheap parts to fix something) And poor people at a disadvantage are poor people Democrats can exploit and abuse.
Minimum wage still needs to be more than $7.25 A cheap plate of Chinese food that has a cost of $3 and requires 10 minutes to make shouldn't cost someone 1.5 hours of their life after taxes
I think $10 for minimum wage is fine, it's an hour of time for a meal and the gas or bus ticket that got you to work. Seems pretty fair to me
Honest question but where do people actually get paid minimum wage?
I got paid $7.25 at Blockbuster..... 20 years ago. The local grocery store and McDonalds starts at $13-14.
Part of the problem for sure though is jobs like Uber, where sometimes people scrape minimum wage.
My wife had a part time job at Academy stocking heavy camo and doing trucks and she only got paid $7.25. A keyholder position at Godiva only paid her $10,and it included counting money, closing, running the deposit, and opening in the morning, plus dipping a crapton of strawberries. This is why we're completely confused by the people at Target who want $18 an hour to do the same thing or the McD people who want $15.
I still think minimum should be $10 though, and people should be happy about it.
You aren't working 1.5 hours to eat, you're working 1.5 hours for someone to make you food. You can eat plenty good on 1 dollar a day if you're cooking yourself. I've done it before while paying back college loans.
Also not everyone needs or deserves a car if they aren't going to benefit society enough to be compensated enough to own one. They're always free to start their own small business, it's hard but the loans are relatively easy to get.
Considering even major cities are specifically designed around automobile. Or that in the 50's (highway act of 1956) when America could have decided to build fast interstate rail and develop cities around public transport, we chose massive highway expansion, I don't think it's unreasonable to think even the lower middle class and low class deserve to drive even just a beater. The entire infrastructure is not made to be without a car, it's a sad reality.
This is one reason democrats want tougher emissions and to go all electric, because it puts poor people at a complete disadvantage when their old rides can't pass emissions or they start recycling old cars instead of parting them out (which means you can't go to the junkyard and get cheap parts to fix something) And poor people at a disadvantage are poor people Democrats can exploit and abuse.