Biden's Actions???

Minimum wage to $15 an hour?
Immigration reform?
I get nervous about the Rising cost of living!
I believe in people sustaining for themselves and families YET at what cost?
Anyone's thoughts and perception on this?
I want to collect Social security in a couple or better years it better happen....

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BigAssLeech · 31-35, M

Cost of living has gone up exponentially since 2009/2010 while wages have stayed exactly the same. Rising cost of living and housing will not be affected by a raise in minimum wage. Cost of goods will also not go up by any considerable amount for the same reason. In Sweden, a Big Mac (which is the most common example people use to denounce a higher minimum wage) is only a few cents more than in the US. They have no minimum wage laws, and their workers are paid a living wage with benefits.

4meAndyou · F

@BigAssLeech In the USA, gas prices are already going up very steeply, and they will get higher very quickly. Diesel powered trucks are still used to transport food from the farms to the supermarkets. I used to pay $50 per week for groceries, (two years ago). Now the same amount of food costs $75.00 per week.

BigAssLeech · 31-35, M

@4meAndyou Exactly. The cost of gas and groceries is going up while minimum wage stays stagnant.

4meAndyou · F

@BigAssLeech And yet the rents in New York and California are astronomical, while the rents in Nebraska or Oklahoma or Mississippi are very low. That is why $15 per hour should be mandated by the states where it is most needed, and where it will put small business and restaurants six feet under, it should remain the same.

aradia11 · 61-69, F

@BigAssLeech Sweden is a Socialist country.
A doctor, Janitor, Mcdonald's worker wages are not very far apart. Taxes are higher to cover health insurance and way of life believed to be more Governed....

BigAssLeech · 31-35, M

@aradia11 Sweden is not socialist (even though socialism in practicality is not as bad as American propaganda has lead you to believe). They've implemented socialist methodology where they see fit, and they've done astronomically well because of it. That's also not true at all. Doctors in Sweden
make infinitely more than McDonald's workers and janitors. I don't know what would make you think that.

Would you rather be taxed a bit more and be able to receive medical treatment at a lower cost? Or would you rather be in debt the rest of your life for cancer treatments, or deny treatment altogether because of its cost? I would much rather see my tax money go to healthcare rather than funding useless wars over oil and capital.