[pepsionice]

One of the great misunderstandings about our society and this view of minimum wage....is that prices are different everywhere you go. A guy making $18k a year in southern Alabama....can sustain himself and the family because of the low-cost of living there.

A guy in Myrtle Beach, SC....probably needs at least $22k a year to make it locally.

A guy in Chicago....probably needs $26k a year to make it locally.

This is where this entire discussion over minimum wage disconnects from reality.

It’s the same if you discussed rich people. A guy making $200k a year in Manhattan....really isn’t rich, by local standards. A guy in Orlando making $200k is barely rich....by local standards. And a guy in Red Bay, Bama making $200k is filthy rich and drinking his beer from a crystal glass. We haven’t grasped reality yet.

[mountn man]

My exact point I've made to people.

I have come to the conclussion that liberals have ZERO critical thinking skills.

[painter]

If my wife and I made $200k a year in central Mo. We would be very rich. Yea, I would be drinking my beer out of frosty cut crystal glasses too. :^)