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[quote=Anonymous][quote=AroundTheBlock][quote=Anonymous]Should the minimum wage for an area be a living wage for that area?[/quote]

No.  You cannot apply that theory because each area is different.  Sorry, but I do not believe the government should try and make everyone's life more comfortable.  If you work in Fairfax but live in PG should you get paid more money?
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Each area is different & there would be discrepancies, although determining a wage for nearby geographical areas is probably "fairer" than trying to establish a minimum living wage across the entire country.

One way to resolve that would be to pick the cheapest area to live, establish what a living wage there would be, and make that the standard. It would encourage people to move to lower cost areas, although the standard argument against that is the people who would most need to move because of wage pressures are exactly those people who can least afford to move (both in terms of financial cost as well as in terms of losing community support/knowledge).[/quote]

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