Poll - Min Wage Increase

[KeithE]

Assume this is for non-dependents and will be phased in over 3 years. You can add your own nuances in posts. I’ve allowed changing your vote.

[William Thornton]

[Sandy]

[Haruo]

Okay, now that we have consensus, $13.50 it is. Should be good for Kansas.

I take it William and ET are on board?

[KeithE]

[Stephen Fox]

I think there should be some way to make for productivity. And differentiate between 16 year old kid who is working in grocery store or McDonald's to put 400 dollar mags or some other specialty on his ride.

Personal observations, there was a girl working her way through college, happend to be a person of color I talked to on occasion in Chic Fil A. She should be getting 20 an hour cause she made the clocks run on time. Lot of difference in her and some cheerleader working for more makeup.

Bad example cause Chick Fil A is one of the most exemplary chains out there with all the scholarships and good works the Cathy's do.

tricky proposition cause labor or management is always looking for advantage.

Summers of 71-72 I busted my hiney for 2.50 an hour at the Broad River Brick Yard and went to Piedmont Federal every Friday afternoon and put almost all but my tithe in Savings for Furman

[Haruo]

So now our consensus is down to 67%, and the people who think "the poor are always with you" is an injunction to make sure wages aren't raised too high are whittling away at my retirement. Let me see if I understand: Everybody who is currently making less than $13.50 an hour will be given a raise to $13.50/hr, and everyone earning $13.50/hr or more will keep their current pay rate at least for the moment? Or will those currently making more than the current minimum get $13.50 plus the difference between their current rate and the minimum? Or will the difference between rates be compressed but not eliminated for those currently below $13.50? And will there be some sort of upward adjustment to welfare and social security payments to keep those folks from becoming the really poor? And will all those extra wages come out of profits and executive salaries, or from where? Or will a bunch of people have to lose their jobs so some others can achieve a "living wage"? I make slightly over $10/hr now myself, but the minimum wage here in Washington is over $9, so I'm much closer to the bottom of the heap than if I were in Mississippi, except that in Mississippi my job wouldn't exist and the closest thing to it would pay the MS minimum, not $10/hr...

I guess I mean the whole issue is quite complicated, and while I am in favor of raising the minimum wage, I think a lot of other aspects of the issue need to be addressed simultaneously.

[KeithE]

[KeithE]

Well OK, our poll has concluded with all but one voter saying we need to increase the minimum wage. Most favored almost doubling it within 3 years.

We are consistent with


I’d say write your congressperson but HR 1010 is with only a two percent chance of passage. Note the dismal rate of any bills passing (3%) in last three years.

What a representative congress we have (TIC). Vote the non-representatives out.