Every time one of these buffoons whitters along about how "That job doesn't exist if the minimum wage is raised to $15 an hour," I wonder... do these idiots really believe people will stop eating if the minimum wage goes up?
All of that, AND we as taxpayers are also subsidizing companies not paying their employees a living wage. Walmart pays their employees next to nothing, so they are forced to rely on government assistance in order to make ends meet. Walmart specifically encourages their workers to sign up for things like food assistance and Medicaid while the do-nothing offspring of founder are literally each multi-billionaires.
Republicans love to bitch about "the welfare state" and government assistance — if they really wanted to reduce the number of people that have to rely on government programs, they'd support raising the fucking minimum wage! Instead, apparently, they think working class people should starve, end up homeless, or die young due to lack of access to healthcare—they don't care so long as their labor can be exploited for as long as possible. Raising the minimum wage also helps businesses because a lot more people would have sufficient income to, ya know, spend money at businesses.
Back then free folk could survive on their own labor.
People these days don't really understand the massive social change that the Industrial Revolution brought. There was a time that a spinster, weaver, smith or cooper could make an adequate living, especially with a garden in the backyard and critters in the woods. The market was a place one went, and barter was common.
Here's my insane comment for the day. Let's revalue our currency and hopefully put some purchasing power back into our currency. Let's call it the New US Dollar. Move the decimal point over, chop a zero off of the $10 dollar bill, and redesign the U.S. currency to fit the new reality. Coins would be .05, .10, .25, 1.00. Paper-$5 Red With Golden Gate Bridge. $10 Blue The Freedom Tower. $20 Green Harriet Tubman. $50 Purple Outline of Pikes Peak. $100 Gold to Brown contrast The Grand Canyon. That would mean the minimum wage would now be at $1.50 NUSD per hour. Rent in NYC would be $300 NUSD a month instead of $3000.
Minimum wage in Washington is $13.69 an hour. Tips are not included. Yes I'm aware that in some other states, servers are paid less than minimum wage because of tips. When I was in North Carolina, my friend went to a job interview for a job that only had a base wage of $2.13 and hour because she would supposedly get a lot of tips. It was at a lunch counter. Probably not a lot of tips.
Marshall: It was a great supplement to my income...
What this implies is that the gentleman from Kansas not only had a part-time job, but he also had another source of income at the same time. Which I guess is how he afforded to get through college.
I can't be arsed to go digging through his personal history, but can anyone see if he had two jobs or another source of income?
The whole point being that if this guy couldn't survive college with just one job, how the hell is anyone supposed to survive life on one minimum-wage job?
Exactly. They only see the downside...as usual.How come they never are against the suppliers of buns lettuce and tomatoes raising their prices? Wouldn't the same argument hold true that if prices of the inputs go up, then those same businesses would go belly up? Why haven't they gone out of business a long time ago?
Doctors would end up with a lot of chickens fast. D;
To summarize: Rethuglicans think poorz should fuck the fuck off.
To be fair, his mind has not moved forward very much since 1979 either. Still, piss on him and his reactionary garbage thinking.
Every time one of these buffoons whitters along about how "That job doesn't exist if the minimum wage is raised to $15 an hour," I wonder... do these idiots really believe people will stop eating if the minimum wage goes up?
They may still eat but will not be so quick to stop at the local coffee and breakfast shop on the way to work.
All of that, AND we as taxpayers are also subsidizing companies not paying their employees a living wage. Walmart pays their employees next to nothing, so they are forced to rely on government assistance in order to make ends meet. Walmart specifically encourages their workers to sign up for things like food assistance and Medicaid while the do-nothing offspring of founder are literally each multi-billionaires.
Republicans love to bitch about "the welfare state" and government assistance — if they really wanted to reduce the number of people that have to rely on government programs, they'd support raising the fucking minimum wage! Instead, apparently, they think working class people should starve, end up homeless, or die young due to lack of access to healthcare—they don't care so long as their labor can be exploited for as long as possible. Raising the minimum wage also helps businesses because a lot more people would have sufficient income to, ya know, spend money at businesses.
They see the first half of the Industrial Revolution as an ideal to return to.
I'll tell Grace and Jason, Al and Julie, the guy at Crockett's and the other small- business owners I know of your compassion for them
Back then free folk could survive on their own labor.
People these days don't really understand the massive social change that the Industrial Revolution brought. There was a time that a spinster, weaver, smith or cooper could make an adequate living, especially with a garden in the backyard and critters in the woods. The market was a place one went, and barter was common.
Here's my insane comment for the day. Let's revalue our currency and hopefully put some purchasing power back into our currency. Let's call it the New US Dollar. Move the decimal point over, chop a zero off of the $10 dollar bill, and redesign the U.S. currency to fit the new reality. Coins would be .05, .10, .25, 1.00. Paper-$5 Red With Golden Gate Bridge. $10 Blue The Freedom Tower. $20 Green Harriet Tubman. $50 Purple Outline of Pikes Peak. $100 Gold to Brown contrast The Grand Canyon. That would mean the minimum wage would now be at $1.50 NUSD per hour. Rent in NYC would be $300 NUSD a month instead of $3000.
Is this one of those lopsided reports that indicate the number of jobs lost but not the number of potential jobs gained as people spend more money?
Minimum wage in Washington is $13.69 an hour. Tips are not included. Yes I'm aware that in some other states, servers are paid less than minimum wage because of tips. When I was in North Carolina, my friend went to a job interview for a job that only had a base wage of $2.13 and hour because she would supposedly get a lot of tips. It was at a lunch counter. Probably not a lot of tips.
That's a trope. You don't really want to fall for it.
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Anybody else notice this? (Emphasis mine)
Marshall: It was a great supplement to my income...
What this implies is that the gentleman from Kansas not only had a part-time job, but he also had another source of income at the same time. Which I guess is how he afforded to get through college.
I can't be arsed to go digging through his personal history, but can anyone see if he had two jobs or another source of income?
The whole point being that if this guy couldn't survive college with just one job, how the hell is anyone supposed to survive life on one minimum-wage job?
Exactly. They only see the downside...as usual.How come they never are against the suppliers of buns lettuce and tomatoes raising their prices? Wouldn't the same argument hold true that if prices of the inputs go up, then those same businesses would go belly up? Why haven't they gone out of business a long time ago?
Field trip, anyone? Let's go count the kids.