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Originally Posted by Corral
here's what i know about this minimum wage debate.
if you walk into a typical grocery store in Calgary you could pay as much as $4.50 for a single loaf of bread and another $3.00 for 2 litres of milk. Yes you could find it for less - but this $7.50 for both is not for purchasing anything special like organic milk or fancy bread.
So that's 1/2 hour of work before taxes at the $15 min wage.
It would be interesting to know if the same milk and bread only cost $2.50 total in the mid 1990s when apparently min wage was only $5 per hour. maybe it did. But i do think the basic staples these days are very pricey for those on min wage. So i'm all for raising it. Frankly could care less what others think unless they too are working for near min wage.
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How do you spend 4.50 on a loaf of bread? If you are working for minimum wage you shouldn't be buying $4.50 bread. $1.50 to $2 per loaf tops. And milk in a 4L jug is about $5. The cost of mil has gone up less then inflation as 20 years ago it was just under a dollar per liter.