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15. Anyone Who Opposes (Automatic*) Increases...

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 06:00 PM

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In minimum wage, should be forced to live on it for at least a year, with no access to their normal income/assets.

*It should be pegged to inflation, so that we don’t keep doing this, over and over, while telling poor people “Fuck off.” Just not in so many words.

FYI, if minimum wage had kept pace with inflation, it would have been about $21 an hour back in ‘14. Wanna know what I was making in ‘14, as a new grad RN on a cardiothoracic surgery ICU at a major, and prestigious university medical center? A shade over $21 an hour. A four year degree, taking care of the sickest of sick
cardiac patients, making the equivalent of minimum wage. It would be closer to $30, today, which is about what a new RN makes at my hospital (thanks to market adjustments over the last two years).

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Trump's billionaire Treasury chief nominee says minimum wage should stay at $7.25 per hour [View all] BumRushDaShow 15 hrs ago OP

Oh shit.............. Lovie777 15 hrs ago #1

Well Rebl2 15 hrs ago #5

We need to slam those idiots... 2naSalit 12 hrs ago #19

Surprised they don't want to lower it or completely eliminate it. yourout 15 hrs ago #2

They're just getting started. nt TBF 13 hrs ago #17

how very christian of them rurallib 15 hrs ago #3

F him Rebl2 15 hrs ago #4

Because Biden defeated inflation, right? Nope, he's a sycophant who will lose his husband if tRump has his way. . nt Bernardo de La Paz 15 hrs ago #6

Well...if you live in a red State you'll never see a MW wage increase in the next four years... Bengus81 15 hrs ago #7

Remember when that CEO guy got shot? twodogsbarking 15 hrs ago #8

I said from the day this guy was announced - he is very bad news. Wiz Imp 15 hrs ago #9

Breathtaking, absolutely astonishing that this is where America has come to. What would FDR have said? C0RI0LANUS 15 hrs ago #10

How can billionaires become trillionaires if they pay people more than $7 an hour? Irish_Dem 15 hrs ago #11

I will give him my direct deposit kacekwl 14 hrs ago #12

I'm sure he'd reduce the minimum wage if he could. patphil 14 hrs ago #13

They ALWAYS defer to state rights when it suits them purr-rat beauty 14 hrs ago #14

Anyone Who Opposes (Automatic*) Increases... GB_RN 14 hrs ago #15

Minimum wage is pegged to inflation in several states VMA131Marine 7 hrs ago #27

That's $15,080 per year working full-time, BEFORE taxes JoseBalow 14 hrs ago #16

I know folks on that wage--they visit the soup kitchen and grocery kitchen frequently. riversedge 12 hrs ago #20

They pretend minimum is maximum. GreenWave 13 hrs ago #18

A state issue? jayschool2013 12 hrs ago #21

Sarcastically I say, Pennsylvania Alice B. 8 hrs ago #26

It's $15 here jayschool2013 2 hrs ago #30

Otherwise, there can't be more billionaires. dchill 11 hrs ago #22

Showing what assholes we already know they are. OverBurn 9 hrs ago #23

Another reason for a spending boycott. They're counting on us to go on spending like crazy under Biden .... Hotler 9 hrs ago #24

Great! BurnDoubt 8 hrs ago #25

And That Is Why The Teamsters Declined to Endorse Kamala TomCADem 6 hrs ago #28

Because when you shift tax responsibility away from truthisfreedom 6 hrs ago #29

A hedge fund guy lonely bird 1 hr ago #31

cruelty is the point. Javaman 41 min ago #32

Minimum wage Maga voters and "Democrats" that didn't vote should start a go fund me Buddyzbuddy 39 min ago #33