Somewhere along the way, the mantra of giving minimum wage workers an artificial pay raise has come into vogue with the ass licking Progressives who find nothing abhorrent in extorting businesses to pay more for labor worth less than today's minimum wage. Progressives and their dog crap fly equivalent sycophants seem to think that a "minimum wage" is supposed to be a "living wage" and then they just ignore history of the wage. It used to be that we paid meager wages and this institutionalized slums across Western Europe and America but those situations were largely replaced by a minimum wage and a social welfare state where the Western poor living in cleaner surroundings, have technological gadgets, tire and wheel combinations on their personal car that are five sizes too large for the wheel wells of those vehicles; today's poor in the West have air-conditioning, cable television, smart phones, and items the rich in other regions of the world wish they had.
In order to put this whole debate about the minimum wage behind us, I will concede the need for a $15 minimum wage. Let's remove the excuses from the poor for their plight and put their success and failure right in their laps.
In exchange, I would require that all government handout programs to the poor be abolished. No more WIC, no more welfare, no more subsidized housing, no more food stamps (or EBT cards). We would abolish all Obamacare subsidiies. We should abolish all programs that transfer money from taxpayers to non-taxpayers for their care.
This is quite a fair proposal. If you say that $15 per hour is a living wage, then you can live on it and take care of your unmitigated reproductive urges. You can buy your own birth control - feed your brats - buy your own phones - and pay for your own housing. I'm taking you at your word. I'm even going beyond King Pimple's demand for $10.10 per hour - let's price your labor at $15 per hour and give you everything you want. Of course you will not have Earned Income Tax Credits, Child Care Credits, or other ways to weazel out of paying income taxes. You will be required for the first time in your life to support yourself. And no, you do not get any more raises - this is the floor - no cost of living adjustments - no stepped raises - immediately we'll get to $15 per hour from this current level - and for those states who have already adopted this, we'll require those employers to pay $25 per hour just for fun since we know the Federal Government knows better than the states.
Don't ask me about being unemployed. You won't have Federal Unemployment Insurance either. We'll have removed that since you have a living wage!
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