On Friday, February 26, 2021 at 9:27:56 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Friday, February 26, 2021 at 8:01:55 AM UTC-6, micky wrote:
OT Why $7.50 is enough

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1807595.html

"Republican Senator John Thune has rejected an effort from congressional
Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15,
pointing to his $6 or less hourly wages that he earned working at a
restaurant as a €œkid€�."


Thune graduated from Jones County High School in Murdo, South Dakota in
1979, when a $6 hourly wage €“ adjusted to modern inflation rates €“ would
amount to roughly $23 in 2021 dollars.

But he thinks, or he wants you to think, that if he got by on $6 or
less, people 41 years later should get by on 7.50.
The minimum wage was $1.60 when I got my first job in 1972. I was the Superintendent of Stools
at a campground. It would be $10.47 now.
https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/items/1971-united-states-minimum-wage
That leaves aside the question of whether there should be such a thing as a
minimum wage.

Same here, my first job was at $1.60 an hour too. This Thune is one big dope.