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Would You Support a "Living Wage"?
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:26 pm
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:26 pm
If it meant that all social programs were denied to those that worked because they make enough money to no longer qualify.
Isn't that the rub? That we subsidize the bottom line of companies that intentionally underpay their employees because they are all on SNAP, Section 8 or some form of government assistance.
Would certainly help identify those that are just looking for a handout rather than a handup.
Isn't that the rub? That we subsidize the bottom line of companies that intentionally underpay their employees because they are all on SNAP, Section 8 or some form of government assistance.
Would certainly help identify those that are just looking for a handout rather than a handup.
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Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:29 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
I’d support replacing all welfare and removal of minimum wage with universal income if that’s the offer.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:29 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
About as much as I'd support a 'dying' wage. Nobody gets paid for doing nothing or doing bottom-of-the-barrel work.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:31 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Minimum wage was NEVER intended to be a wage to support a family or household.
It was "MINIMUM" wage because it was supposed to be for part-time high school kids working after school and summer workers.
It was "MINIMUM" wage because it was supposed to be for part-time high school kids working after school and summer workers.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:32 pm to C
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I’d support replacing all welfare and removal of minimum wage with universal income if that’s the offer.
What would that accomplish? Where’s the difference?
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:32 pm to C
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I’d support replacing all welfare and removal of minimum wage with universal income if that’s the offer.
You could interpret it that way, and feel free. But I was speaking more of raising wages to a base "living wage" and in exchange removing the ability of companies to underpay employees by raising that wage above the cutoff for all subsidies.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:33 pm to LSURussian
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Minimum wage was NEVER intended to be a wage to support a family or household.
It was "MINIMUM" wage because it was supposed to be for part-time high school kids working after school and summer worker
I wasn't debating the definition or the history of minimum wage. I was positing a completely different hypothetical.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:34 pm to LSURussian
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It was "MINIMUM" wage because it was supposed to be for part-time high school kids working after school and summer workers.
If you're an adult making minimum wage at your primary place of employment, the problem is with you, not the system.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:35 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Free college
Free trade school.
Medicare for 55 and up.
Socialist security, as is.
The advantage of so called living wage is the end of small time hoodlum crime. No need. No hookers either.
Free trade school.
Medicare for 55 and up.
Socialist security, as is.
The advantage of so called living wage is the end of small time hoodlum crime. No need. No hookers either.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:42 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
I we gave everyone a "living wage" and people used that up, and they needed food, shelter, heslthcare; we'd wind up giving them more and more. There would be no cap.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:43 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
No.
Also time to put time limits on welfare, and caps on welfare for able bodied people.
Also time to put time limits on welfare, and caps on welfare for able bodied people.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:47 pm to CelticDog
quote:It would not be free, otto, it would be paid by other taxpayers.
Free college
Free trade school.
Get your terminology straight.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:48 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
My solution: Set a "living wage" if that's what you want to call it. Every able bodied person has a set time to find a job. If your job pays less than the living wage the government will supplement the difference. If you're too lazy to work, you get nothing.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:50 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
No.
We should do away with the minimum wage too. There is no reason to prevent a person from taking a job at a wage less than minimum wage.
Many of the unemployed today are simply not worth the minimum wage. Perhaps an employer would take a chance on them at $3 or $5 per hour.
We should do away with the minimum wage too. There is no reason to prevent a person from taking a job at a wage less than minimum wage.
Many of the unemployed today are simply not worth the minimum wage. Perhaps an employer would take a chance on them at $3 or $5 per hour.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 5:57 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
I already make a living wage
Posted on 9/29/18 at 6:05 pm to HonoraryCoonass
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I’d support replacing all welfare and removal of minimum wage with universal income if that’s the offer.
What would that accomplish? Where’s the difference?
It would get rid of the massive government entitlement bureaucracy. There would be no need for government housing programs, no department of education, no medicaid, no Obamacare, no food stamp program, no welfare. There would be much less waste fraud and abuse, and it would shrink the size of government. We've spent the last 80 years building up these programs in America, they are not going anywhere. We might as well replace them with something that works better and shrinks government.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 6:12 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
quote:You mean wealth redistribution? Taking money from those who earn it and give it to those who dont? No i do NOT support a living wage
Would You Support a "Living Wage"?
Posted on 9/29/18 at 6:14 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Personally believe if you go more than a year or two making minimum wage, the problem is probably you.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 6:16 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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If it meant that all social programs were denied to those that worked because they make enough money to no longer qualify
I’d rather the social programs be denied to those who refuse to work.
Posted on 9/29/18 at 6:17 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
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