Thread: Minimum Wage Increase (US)

I really hope this passes. The current minimum wage of $5.15/hour
isn't enough to survive on; and definitely not enough to support
anybody else. So not only do these minimum wage earners live in
horrible conditions, but they also live alone because nobody can
love someone that doesn't have a good income. Jeez! It's like
$800/month. Ridiculous.

Oh, and as someone who earns an hourly wage, I also think that
every hourly worker should get the same increase.. If a minimum wage
burger flipper at Taco John's gets a $2.10/hour increase, so should I.
Salary workers, of course, stay the same. I doubt that many people
on salary earn less than $30k/year. That's upper-middle class, man!
We work just as hard as you; we deserve equality! Quit holding us down!

I know nothing of economics, but if giving every hourly worker a $2/hour
increase somehow weakens the dollar or has no impact whatsoever
because everybody (except salary workers) is still making, relatively,
the same amount of cash.. yeah, I don't think that should happen, either.

Just sayin'.

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So they sell burgers at Taco John's? I couldn't resist, sorry.

I don't actually know. I only stopped inside one on my roadtrip
to Tennessee last month to attend Bonnaroo. It was in Cheyenne,
Wyoming. And I only went inside to use the bathroom. It had a lock.

They had this poster of a chicken taco, but it looked gross. It
just looked like 5 chicken mcnuggets wrapped in a tortilla. I ended up
eating Subway and my travel partner had Sonic.

Just visited their website. They *do* have bugers... Taco Burgers.

//edit

Taco Burgers. Man, that's a scary thought.

Originally Posted by indigo0086

Good on you!

Good on him? Why good on him?

This increase has nothing to do with High School students. It
has to do with the poor folk among us, you snob. High School
students are even exempt from the Federal Minimum Wage Law
(for 3 months or something), anyway; so employers *can* pay
them less than minimum wage if they want.

Originally Posted by indigo0086

I was being sarcastic. I thought he was being a little haughty over something that shouldn't affect him in a negative way. Not a good way to start.

And before I take your "snob" comment to heart, I work part-time and go to college.

Oh, sorry about that. That "snob" comment was meant for the
guy you quoted. My bad. <3

Originally Posted by Govtcheez

30K/year is nowhere near upper middle class, duder. You'd be hard pressed to afford a non-ghetto studio apartment on that salary around here. Hell, I make way more than that, and I can barely afford my 1BR apartment.

Cheez, as you know, I grew up in the projects. The projects of
Salt Lake City, Utah. Yeah, they exist. To me, $30k/year is wealth,
man. I was raised on about $5k/year + foodstamps, brotha.

Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs so the police can
bother me -Tupac.

Sing it, brah. I know where you're coming from, Pac!

UNITE!

*dance*

Again, I'm not an expert in economics, but I hope someone can
get what I"m saying.

The dollar is getting weaker. It happens over the years. Inflation
or something. $800 today isn't as much as it was in '97, which
was the last time the federal minimum wage was increased.

But while other people are making more and more money, the people
that earn that minimum wage are becoming more and more poor because
their money isn't stretching as far as it used to. So it really needs to
be increased.

Oh, and you guys need to keep in mind that this is the Federal
Minimum Wage. A lot of states already have their own minimum
wage laws; and a lot of them are even higher than what the new
Federal Minimum Wage would be ($7.25/hour) if this passes.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._minimum_wages

You can think Clinton for that. Man he was rad.

but they also live alone because nobody can
love someone that doesn't have a good income.

LMAO, that's great, hahahaha.

Hell, I make way more than that

I'd totally like to live with you and love you...but the amount of love you receive is proportional to my weekly allowance (expressed in USD and BEER).

I work part-time and go to college.

haha LOSER!

(el taco losre')

A lot of states already have their own minimum
wage laws; and a lot of them are even higher than what the new
Federal Minimum Wage would be ($7.25/hour) if this passes.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Maine is already at or very near $7...and we're white trash! We're the whitest state in the country.

But while other people are making more and more money, the people
that earn that minimum wage are becoming more and more poor because
their money isn't stretching as far as it used to. So it really needs to
be increased.

I do agree with this. The dollar will, of course, eventually 'weaken' again ; it's not like there's any way to to permanently change how far the dollar can go...it's a vicious cycle.