I re-listened to this podcast...while agree that minimum wage has not increased with the GDP or stock market, I believe we are overlooking one simple fact, Minimum wage was never meant for a person to live off of, it is meant for kids straight out of school, that have next to no skills, to earn a wage and start in the workforce. If you are a grown adult with kids, and you are making minimum wage, your personal choices are to blame not the corporate elite. I personally do not believe that a 16 year old kid working a summer job, flipping burgers deserves the same wage, or near, someone who works 40 or more a week and has a family to provide for, I believe a person should be paid for their experience and their performance....just my 2 cents anyway!
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I think you’re joking about the flat tax idea, Mario, but the point Lee makes about wages to be some product of a formula that involves skill, experience, job category, and performance, etc could be used. The big fix of an idea for the class inequality, disparity, whatever, I don’t know. It’s a discussion that needs moment. The problem is “folks” get so riled up, and hate grows. We lose again, for now.