So, let me get this straight...

Cutting taxes at the top hoping for wealth to trickle down onto the workers is good...

But raising minimum wage to induce the very effect that trickle down hopes to achieve, oh that's bad.

lol

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Graylight · 51-55, F

I recently had a guy who stocked at Walmart tell me working fast food was intended to be an entry-level job. Fact is, the days of "working at the burger joint" over the summer isn't how commerce and employment work anymore. While it seems backwards to pay low-skilled workers more, how can we navigate a country whose minimum wage is below the poverty line?

Yes, wages should go up, probably across the board up to a certain point. I know people who haven't had a cost of living increase in 8 years. At the same time, though, we need to acknowledge that this tested and common trickle-down method of commerce simply doesn't work. Somewhere in-between lays the answer.

smmartydude · 36-40, M

@Graylight Because minimum wage jobs were never meant to be jobs that support a family!!!! why don't people get that?

Xuan12 · 31-35, M

@smmartydude Well they constitute a larger and larger share of the jobs that are available. And hell, I made $18 an hour as a firefighter and it had the same buying power as 1950 minimum wage.