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Originally Posted by Rochard
There has been a lot of discussion about this here locally.
It doesn't raise the minimum wage to $15 right now, but it will take five or six years or something like that.
I don't know how I feel about this. I think.... People need to be motivated to "do better". The entire point of the minimum wage is to give you the "bare minimum" you need to get by. It's not meant to raise a family on. It says "if you want to do better in life, work harder".
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The problem with that, is many big companies abuse tje min wage system. Think walmart and fast food for example. Their entire profit margin is built on paying min wage with 5 cent raises and pushing their employees onto welfare.
Ie they use tax payers money to subsidize paying low wages. Lots of companies do this and it's why min wage has become the fighting point..
Also min wage isn't enough to live on in most places if it had kept up with inflation, it would of already been $15.