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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why only $15 an hour?

Why not $20? Or $25? Or $40?

If this is about giving someone the opportunity to have a comfortable life, then $40 an hour is far more realistic.

Change my mind. 
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why not 0$ why not charge people to work so they can have self esteem?  Why not allow slavery, if people sell themselves freely into it?  Why have rules on safety in the workplace?  people can just get another job if their workplace is unsafe.  Could it possibly be because $15 is where the political will seems to be these days?  It seems a compromise that the center left and center right can stand?

Face it: people like you want laws to protect the rich but none to protect the poor.  I bet you are in favor of non-competition clauses in contracts, anti-union laws that prevent people from using organization instead of wealth to enforce their interests, anti-discrimination laws because the wealthy should be allowed to have no blacks at their workplace if that is what they want, and no funding for education for the poor because that would take money from you and give it to the undeserving.  Well, our strength isn't money.  It is the willingness to work together.  Yell at us all you want, but we won't give our power away.  You are certainly not giving your power (wealth) away.

(and I've never encountered any poster who put "change my mind" in their post who wasn't a troll, so I don't know why I'm answering this)[/quote][/quote]

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