Minimum wage?

Emmett J. Hoops·

Minimum wage laws rigidify urban poverty. Picture this: You get $8.50/hr. in a town where you can buy a house for $60,000. You’re middle class, almost. You get $8.50/hr in Brooklyn, where the house next door just sold for $2,000,000 and your rent is going up to $2,000 a month. You’re homeless.
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Alicia De Lancey Morris Amen Emmett!

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Joe Lussier if you can only make 8.50 an hour in brooklyn….move, I make good money but hell…i cant afford to live there…

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Joe Lussier Having a degree in business and economics its easy for me to understand what a 15 min wage means…those not so educated in economics go more on “feelings”…boo hoo! http://www.forbes.com/…/the-absurdity-of-a-15-minimum…/

The Absurdity Of A $15 Minimum Wage

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Ben Cozmo D Cenac $8.50 an hour isn’t Middle Class anywhere. Not in this country.

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Ben Cozmo D Cenac How can somebody making $8.50 an hour afford to “move”?

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Joe Lussier I did it many years ago…nothing in life is easy…I couldn’t “afford” it but I made it happen. Worked 60 hours a week and spent next to nothing.

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Emmett J. Hoops $8.50 an hour is $17,680 a year. This person would pay nearly nothing in income tax. $16,300 after SS. Paying $6,000 for rent, $2,000 for utilities, that leaves $8,300 in income. Food stamps will help with that. A first year teacher up here makes $32,000 but gets no income tax breaks and no food stamps. They wind up in the same position.

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Ed Holmes I am tired of the greedy rich paying as little as they possibly can while the taxpayer has to pick up food stamps, subsidized housing, healthcare, etc. The top 1% has outsourced every job they can and they are still howling about all of the taxes they pay. In Canada, the economy is booming, taxes are high, and there is a single payer healthcare system. We should follow Canada as an example.

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Emmett J. Hoops Ed, you hit the nail on the head. We are muxing up the issue by focusing on the minimum wage. The issue is really one of progressive taxation.

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Ben Cozmo D Cenac When you did it did you have a family to move as well?

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