Nominating someone who "has a little Trumpism in him" is NOT going to fly with the people who got Biden in office. We really need to stop courting the fictitious 'on the fence' voters and play to an actual base. The base being the minority, female, educated, etc people who beat Trump the last time. No the Dems cannot run an AOC and I get that, but we absolutely do not need a conservative Democrat either. I live 50 miles from the Ohio border and I have no damn clue who Tim Ryan is, I can't see too many left-leaning Dems getting on board with him, and make no mistake, those are the people we need to bring into the fold. Those are the voters you need to mobilize. Those are the voters that saved Democrats in 2020.
You need to do both. Minimum wage is still $7.25. Gas in my county is currently running around $5.09/gal. Wages need to go up. Wages needed to go up 10 years ago, but we didn't do that, so now we need wages to be lifteddramatically.
Make the minimum wage $15 (at least) and tie it to inflation going forward. Create tax breaks and other assistance for small businesses to cover this increased cost. And then you can also work on controlling the costs of rent/food/energy/education, but you absolutely need to dramatically raise the minimum wage.
It is genuinely getting to a point where the average lower-middle class worker is having a hard time surviving.
Raising minimum wage to $15 will have the most damming effect on the “average lower middle class worker” though.
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It’s interesting because the long run survival of the country is for ultimately the billionaire class to voluntarily agree to re-distribute the wealth. If they do, the country has a chance if they don’t, they won’t but also the billionaires will lose.
Either way the concentration of wealth will ultimately end. Just a matter of time now.
It’s interesting because the long run survival of the country is for ultimately the billionaire class to voluntarily agree to re-distribute the wealth. If they do, the country has a chance if they don’t, they won’t but also the billionaires will lose.
Either way the concentration of wealth will ultimately end. Just a matter of time now.
Why do the billionaires lose? Saudis, Chinas, and Russias Billionaires are seeming to do fine. Billionaires do just fine in authoritarian regimes.
Raising minimum wage to $15 will have the most damming effect on the “average lower middle class worker” though.
I would think it would have a damning effect for those who don’t want to pay a fair wage or whose businesses rely on hiring illegals to do their work. Know anyone like that?
Why does reading this make me feel as though I’m caught in some sort of time loop?
Especially now when a bunch of jurisdictions have raised the minimum wage to $15 (including Alberta) or nearly $15 in the US. Its not like those locations are seeing any of these horror stories that some like to believe were going to happen.
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I think some people would be surprised how many business owners actually make less than minimum wage themselves or put on a façade of success why also relying on the food bank. Sure, big corporations like McDonalds, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, 7-11, etc... can pay it and fill in the gaps I guess. When small businesses close, they are types that tend to swallow up the market.
I guess it's just quite possible that we live in a post-small business world. It certainly looks like it has been heading that way for a long time anyway, so maybe it's just time to give in to it and let small businesses go the way of the dodo. It just rubs me the wrong way when people seem to assume that doubling wage cost for businesses is no big deal as if business owners are sleeping in piles of money.
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I think some people would be surprised how many business owners actually make less than minimum wage themselves or put on a façade of success why also relying on the food bank. Sure, big corporations like McDonalds, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, 7-11, etc... can pay it and fill in the gaps I guess. When small businesses close, they are types that tend to swallow up the market.
I guess it's just quite possible that we live in a post-small business world. It certainly looks like it has been heading that way for a long time anyway, so maybe it's just time to give in to it and let small businesses go the way of the dodo. It just rubs me the wrong way when people seem to assume that doubling wage cost for businesses is no big deal as if business owners are sleeping in piles of money.
Perhaps it would be better to supplement low wages with UBI instead to spread the cost of caring for people whose market value is less than liveable instead of pushing it exclusively onto their employers.
(As an aside, 7-11s and McDonald's are franchises and Starbucks just closed a bunch of stores.)
Hey guys you heard about that June 60th stuff? Yeah apparently some guys dressed as stormtroopers were eating capocollo. Yeah I guess someone played a trump card or something and now Rudy Stefani is going down for it. I dunno, I think he’s the father of the girl from the band No Way Out. Yeah it’s crazy. It was all over the news.
