An employee at a major bank in Florida was so grateful we passed 15 an hour min. She makes roughly 19 an hour and her son works in retail. She said how pleased she was that they would earn more money. I stated "how we going to make more money"? She went on to explain her 20 years of service is worth a lot more than min wage. I responded the 15 an hour is like food stamps, designed to help the poorest among us. She than asked the manager when they raise the min wage 1.5 will she get more money. To which she was told no, just the annual raise if available. It was at that moment she understood. Telling me if she could work at the zoo for 15 an hour why would she work in a high stress office. To which I responded "you wouldn't". In hind sight I should have said those making 100k would prolly get raises.
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Because lots of people want to work at a zoo for $15.00 an hour and now you have to compete with more people for that job. So good luck getting it against some guy with zoo experience already, learn the consequences.
Same thing with the "free fourteen hundred dollars." Holy fuck, I agree with foreigners making fun of Americans when "conservatives" open their mouths for the welfare hose. Take it from somebody whose neighbor said without irony, "Well, Trump lost, but at least I got my fourteen hundred!"
He then asked me a few days later why his favorite one-dollar cookies had gone up ten cents in price. Ask your inflated face, hope it was worth selling out the true POTUS for that fourteen pieces of silver.
I hated getting the 1400 because I intuitively knew that all the hard work I have done to get 1400 previously no longer matters anymore. If 1400 is now worth the value of "free" than all my hard work is valued even less.
They had to take way more than 1400 from you to get you that check.