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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]15k a year does not pay for food, rent, and health care. No way in hell. Add in public transportation, childcare, and utilities and you are SOL but working 40 hours a week. Absurdly low: and explains the exponential growth in cost or government services we’ve seen since the 50’s. People cannot get by on their own labor, and it’s time to fix that.[/quote]

So now you’ve added health care and child care....

Minimum wage is not and was never designed to support a family. [/quote]

No health care?  really?  you really think people should be without health care?

And if you don't let people have families, prepare for the revolution.[/quote]

You can have families, but again, minimum wage is for minimum skills and not designed to be a permanent wage to raise a family on. 
If you can’t better yourself, that’s on you, not me. [/quote]

When it was created, minimum wage could support a family of 3 above the poverty line. It has only been since the 1980s that we've decided minimum wage is for teenagers and losers who should never have families. The reality is that we need people working those jobs, even if we all want to pretend the jobs have no value.

The minimum wage was ALWAYS intended to be a living wage. Someone working a full-time job should make enough to live on. That's just basic decency, and surely we, in one of the richest and supposed greatest countries on earth, can muster this basic level of decency for our lowest paid workers. [/quote]

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