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07-12-2020, 07:15 AM #49
Re: Biden endorses Unity Platform, incuding Free Healthcare for Illegals, $15 Minimum Wage, Reparations, Halt to all deportat
No I get it. And like I said before ...I’m against a Federal Min Wage of $15.
Jon had said that “ no cashiers were worth $15 hr “. I was simply pointing out that some apparently are. Those stores i mentioned are collectively bargained. So no real need for a “minimum wage”.
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07-12-2020, 07:16 AM #50
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07-12-2020, 07:18 AM #51
Re: Biden endorses Unity Platform, incuding Free Healthcare for Illegals, $15 Minimum Wage, Reparations, Halt to all deportat
You know up here in “Boarder Yankee land ( Md/De ) “ min wage is $11 hr now. So with that in mind ...I’d agree with what you have here. Leave it at $11 ( which is still high for say ..fast food IMHO) but it’s decent for a laborer or warehouse worker with zero to minimum skills.
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07-12-2020, 07:22 AM #52Veteran Poster
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07-12-2020, 08:08 AM #53
Re: Biden endorses Unity Platform, incuding Free Healthcare for Illegals, $15 Minimum Wage, Reparations, Halt to all deportat
I agree that it should be that high there and I think all or most posters are all on the same page here. Meanwhile in this area, as is probably the same elsewhere, we have places like the dollar stores still offering people around $9/hr and can't figure out why they can't find and/or keep employees. They do six hour shifts. I feel so bad for the manager. He works his freakin' tail off and can't find anyone to come help stock shelves, etc. Knowing how they treat people, he's probably making around $12-13/hr. He runs around like a one-legged man in an ass kickin' contest all day long. Sad.
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07-12-2020, 08:28 AM #54Veteran Poster
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Re: Biden endorses Unity Platform, incuding Free Healthcare for Illegals, $15 Minimum Wage, Reparations, Halt to all deportat
And if you pay attention to food prices. They are going up much faster than inflation.
I used to drink orange juice every morning. 10 years ago. Tropicana pure premium was $2.50 for 64 ounces. Then they changed the size to 58oz. And maybe two years ago, to 52oz. Oh. And the price is now close to $5
So in 10 years years, orange juice has gone from .039 cents per ounce to .096 cents per ounce. This is largely correlated to wages going up.
So 10 years later, and the left feels great that the min wages has gone up, but none of them have looked past the headlines. Higher min wages will always raise prices.
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07-12-2020, 09:16 AM #55
Re: Biden endorses Unity Platform, incuding Free Healthcare for Illegals, $15 Minimum Wage, Reparations, Halt to all deportat
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07-12-2020, 11:04 AM #57
Re: Biden endorses Unity Platform, incuding Free Healthcare for Illegals, $15 Minimum Wage, Reparations, Halt to all deportat
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07-12-2020, 11:21 AM #58Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: Biden endorses Unity Platform, incuding Free Healthcare for Illegals, $15 Minimum Wage, Reparations, Halt to all deportat
wicked, that highly paid exec who screws up after a "couple of bad quarters" has already made high 6-figure or 7-figures in compensation, and is likely to receive a generous separation package. It would take that middle guy ($50K per) 20 years to make one million. I know the principle of high-risk, high-reward, and I am no bleeding heart, but it just seems to me we (as a society) could be more generous to the lower class working people in whose lives every dollar counts... Bc
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07-12-2020, 11:38 AM #59Hall Of Fame Poster
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07-12-2020, 12:14 PM #60Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: Biden endorses Unity Platform, incuding Free Healthcare for Illegals, $15 Minimum Wage, Reparations, Halt to all deportat
While I know you're exaggerating, please tell me what is wrong with trying to give those low-paid workers a little boost? I'm not saying expand Welfare ("entitlements" as the social workers call it) to those who do no work, and I'm not saying "let’s make everyone middle class" as I know that's impossible. There will always be poor, lower, middle, and uppers classes. I'd simply like the lower working-class to have a few more bucks in their pockets. Whay do you see as wrong with that? ... Bc
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