That's messed up. The race to the bottom continues.

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This is the problem. My parents cite this too, they say You do not want to tax the companies or the rich or they will leave. So what? Fuck them. If they wont pay a suitable living wage and feel they are being taxed too much then GET THE FUCK OUT. It is time for this country to rebuild with an ethical conscious at the heart of it.

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A 21st century twist on the sharecropping paradigm.

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Just asking. What is a living wage from your point of view?


>> ^shagen454:

This is the problem. My parents cite this too, they say You do not want to tax the companies or the rich or they will leave. So what? Fuck them. If they wont pay a suitable living wage and feel they are being taxed too much then GET THE FUCK OUT. It is time for this country to rebuild with an ethical conscious at the heart of it.

http://www.livingwage.geog.psu.edu
Their data needs to be updated but that is a start.

Where I live minimum wage is ten dollars. However, a group of lawyers found a real living wage is more like fourteen dollars which, still, will not afford a person to live any sort of normal life.

>> ^bobknight33:

Just asking. What is a living wage from your point of view?

>> ^shagen454:
This is the problem. My parents cite this too, they say You do not want to tax the companies or the rich or they will leave. So what? Fuck them. If they wont pay a suitable living wage and feel they are being taxed too much then GET THE FUCK OUT. It is time for this country to rebuild with an ethical conscious at the heart of it.

Well... because the state provides very little in the US, the minimum wage should be a lot higher, considering people have to pay for health care from their own pocket, and it's not cheap either. Also, considering the price of sending a kid to college in the US, it should be even higher.

For me, and this is simply my opinion, 1 wage should be enought to support 2 people. Pay food and utilities for a month, pay the rent or mortgage (of a suitable house for 2 people, obviously a mansion would be too much), pay the car (obviously not a ferrari), pay for health care, and still have some left to put away, and little to be able to use on "luxuries" (like going to the movies, eating out, etc).
Paying people less than that, especially when the company paying the wages is very profitable, is not only disgusting, it should be illegal.

In europe, since we don't have to pay for health insurance, and tuition for college is about 900€ per semester, we can do with less.


>> ^bobknight33:

Just asking. What is a living wage from your point of view?

>> ^shagen454:
This is the problem. My parents cite this too, they say You do not want to tax the companies or the rich or they will leave. So what? Fuck them. If they wont pay a suitable living wage and feel they are being taxed too much then GET THE FUCK OUT. It is time for this country to rebuild with an ethical conscious at the heart of it.

Isn't Illinois the liberal-run state from which liberal luminaries Scum Emmanuel and the Kenyawaiian hail?

You won't see a real free market anywhere till the latter is fired next year.