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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage, your company is not profitable and your business is ALREADY a failure. [/quote]

+1 million

If your business model depends on your workers living in poverty, you should fail. We need healthy businesses for our economy and our country to actually flourish.

I would also like to see legislation in the future that ties executive salaries to the wages of their lowest paid employees. The ratio was about 20:1 in the 60s. It's ballooned to about 320:1 today. The greed is out of hand. [/quote]

Ok, define living wage. Does it include a car? 2 cars? Cell phones and $250 cable bill? What’s considered "living"

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Are you saying that you think America is the kind of nation where a person who works a full time job cannot afford a small efficiency apartment?  This is the greatest nation on earth?  This is your high goal for our country?

Being able to pay rent, utilities, food and transportation with one income. For example, my friend who makes $11 an hour at age 50, has to share a house, split the bills, and can barely afford to cover all her bills. [/quote]

Having to share a house is not ideal but it is not the end of the world. Think about how most of the world lives. Americans just think they are entitled to a certain lifestyle and that goes way beyond clean water, basic housing, and decent food. [/quote][/quote]

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