On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:44:09 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 4/20/2021 6:16 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:08:49 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 4/20/2021 12:33 PM, wrote:

That is the point, you really have to be a moron to be making minimum
wage when "do you want fries with that"? or "Paper or plastic" pays
$10-$11.

There are some really slow minded people out there. Let 'em starve?

We act like there are not a half dozen other public assistance
programs for anyone even close to the poverty level.
Starving is not what is going to be happening. They may be living with
room mates and sharing expenses but I did that for years myself in
some pretty ****ty apartments.

So if a business owner is too cheap to pay a decent wage just sign them
up for a taxpayer subsidized program. That way the CEO can still make
millions. Got it.

That is going to be true no matter what. All raising the minimum wage
does is raise the poverty level and there will still be that
transitional area where salaries do not get you out of poverty, at
least as far as government programs go.
They peg poverty at a certain percentile of households.