Now The Fight For $20/hr?

[Mike M (the other one)]

(07-25-2019, 12:17 PM)jj22 Wrote: I think it needs to be raised. The people against it can't have it both ways.

They complain that the benefits of not working are too good. Folks on welfare, food stamps, section 8 etc, have it better then folks working full time jobs.

If this is the case, then why not help them get jobs that will pay better than welfare?

Who can blame them for staying on the system when the alternative is to work for $7.50 and not be able to afford food or a home, health insurance, childcare etc.

To simplify my argument. You can't complain that they have it too good on the "system", but not recognize how worse they'd have it if they worked for minimum wage. Raise the wage don't make it better for them to not work.

$7.50 isn't worth going from paying $8 a month in rent to $500. Getting free health insurance to paying $150 a month, losing $450 a month in food stamps to having to pay that out of pocket etc, losing subsidies for childcare to having to pay $1000 a month for it... etc.

This is why I believe a minimum income should be set for a family, based on number in it.

1 parent 1 kid (+child support)
Say that parent has a job it pays 24k per year.
the min for that family is 30k. (Currently that number is $21,330 at poverty level, I would say bump it to 125% and go with $26,660 and then adjust for the area they live in, establish an average cost of living nationwide then adjust if their city is above/below that mark).
Gov supplements the difference of 6k.
This is much better than the Gov paying for everything.

Have it scale based on number of people in household.