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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
So in other words probably about 45% or so of people make $15 an hour or less. So if we are talking of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour then that means we are talking about directly raising the minimum wage for about 45% of the working population and not just 1.1% of the population.
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You are correct. And that 45% includes 16 and 17 year old kids in highschool, and as I said earlier...a lot of bartenders and waitresses who make unreported cash tips.
The real kicker to what you are showing is this: All of those people who are now making MORE than minimum wage had to work to that point. That guy making $14.75 might have worked a few years to get to that point.
Now all his hard work? Didn't mean shit. He gets a 25 cent raise and makes the exact same money as some slack ass who is working for the weekend.
You just took 45% of the workforce and made them all "equal".
No way that's a good thing. No way that paying $15 an hour for a job that's worth $3 an hour is a good thing.
That's my viewpoint.
Nobody owes anybody anything in this life. But that is the illusion that our govt. is trying to create. And in the end...the only "winners" will be politicians and bureaucrats.
There will still be the same exact percentages of poor people, slack people, rich people, successful people, and "average" people when the dust clears.
Just like we've had 50 years of the "War On Poverty" and trillions of dollars spent...and ended up with MORE people in poverty.
