To: Sean Flynn
Something to consider is while keeping minimum wage at that level we the taxpayers have to pay for their welfare benefits.
$5.15 x 40 hours = $206 week who could live on $824 a month?
Under $10k a year I believe that's poverty level. So again I point out that we the taxpayers will have to pay to provide welfare benefits.
13 posted on
06/22/2006 12:37:48 PM PDT by
stopem
(God Bless the U.S.A the Troops who protect her, and their Commander In Chief !)
To: stopem
Something to consider is while keeping minimum wage at that level we the taxpayers have to pay for their welfare benefits. Only 3% of American workers make the minimum wage. And that includes kids who work at amusement parks in the summer, and those who work part-time after school.
16 posted on
06/22/2006 1:40:23 PM PDT by
sinkspur
(Today, we settled all family business.)
To: stopem
$5.15 x 40 hours = $206 week who could live on $824 a month? A teenager.
17 posted on
06/22/2006 1:43:56 PM PDT by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: stopem
$5.15 x 40 hours = $206 week who could live on $824 a month? Uhhh??? Teens working their first job and living with their parents??? How about a minimum wage that exempts people under 20 years old?
I could tolerate indexing the minimum wage to inflation. It has fallen behind a level that is damaging to the economy. Indexing it to inflation would take it off the table as a political issue and ensure that it always remains a non-issue economically.....
19 posted on
06/22/2006 1:51:33 PM PDT by
Onelifetogive
(Freerepublic - The website where "Freepers" is not in the spell checker dictionary...)
To: stopem
$5.15 x 40 hours = $206 week who could live on $824 a month? A teenager who is still living with his/her parents and who is using the income purely as hanging-out money. Which describes the vast majority of minimum-wage workers.
23 posted on
06/22/2006 4:10:11 PM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
To: stopem
BS
I have worked 12 to 16 hours a day most of my life to get ahead. Why do people think that they have a right to have for free what the rest of us had to pay for?
25 posted on
06/22/2006 4:43:28 PM PDT by
Badray
(CFR my ass. There's not too much money in politics. There's too much money in government hands.)
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