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frazzled

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3. Since the Republicans will block any raise, why not make it $25?

Reply to OceanEcosystem (Original post)

Mon Feb 18, 2013, 02:20 PM

Feb 2013

I appreciate your argument based on the easy math (I'm pretty math deficient myself), but when you're earning that little, it can be a little dispiriting to think you're earning $80 and then find after FICA, etc., your paycheck is a lot less than that—and an uneven number, to boot (like 67.45). So the math is still hard.

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Make the minimum wage $10 an hour. [View all] OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 OP

It might seem that easy but it never is Drale Feb 2013 #1

$23 an hour is much too high for a minimum wage. OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #4

Wow really WOW!! Drale Feb 2013 #9

What about small businesses? OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #15

We already subsidize wages for business small and large Orrex Feb 2013 #20

Its very simple really Drale Feb 2013 #23

You surely noticed that Wallmart had an issue with the core nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #26

not quite FreeJoe Feb 2013 #2

That's unavoidable, regardless of the $ per hour, but OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #7

We do our math in how much we have AFTER taxes nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #27

Since the Republicans will block any raise, why not make it $25? frazzled Feb 2013 #3

If the fruits of labour were shared equally, the minimum wage would be almost 22.00 per hour. PDJane Feb 2013 #5

How many employers could afford to pay a $22/hour minimum wage? OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #8

Why would a hamburger be $12? If everyone was making $22/hr at MINIMUM JaneyVee Feb 2013 #13

By that logic, why not make the minimum wage $100 an hour? OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #19

Because if the minimum wage was $100/hr no one would eat at fast food restaurants. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #21

she is applying more logic than is shown in the OP ProdigalJunkMail Feb 2013 #22

We did it in San Jose. KamaAina Feb 2013 #6

so your logic is to raise the minimum wage ProdigalJunkMail Feb 2013 #10

Not just for the easier math. Since the minimum wage needs to be raised anyway, OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #16

because picking a wage on the idea ProdigalJunkMail Feb 2013 #17

And we need to switch to the metric system at the same time petronius Feb 2013 #11

Ah yes, trying to multiple a number by 5,280 feet. n/t. OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #18

'how many goddam feet are in a goddam mile?' RC Feb 2013 #29

There you go - it's not just calculus, you've got to know anatomy and demographics petronius Feb 2013 #32

$15/hr JaneyVee Feb 2013 #12

+1 PasadenaTrudy Feb 2013 #33

The minimum wage should be raised, mythology Feb 2013 #14

Tying the minimum wage to inflation? You mean like they did Social Security? RC Feb 2013 #30

That is a stupid reason for a good idea. If they can't multiply times 9, don't hire them. Coyotl Feb 2013 #24

At the very least, the minimum wage should be $18 an hour, which would constitute a living wage, Cleita Feb 2013 #25

I disagree with your argumentation. Quantess Feb 2013 #28

Even $10/hr is too low. You can't live on that. You just can't. Gorp Feb 2013 #31

That's one of the strangest reasons I've ever seen for changing the minimum wage, virgogal Feb 2013 #34