(October 7, 2016 at 5:18 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I think the issue with most min wage arguments is the amount they want to raise it. $15 an hour is a bit much for across the board. The places that need it for higher COL could use it but that is entirely too much for smaller areas. I used to pay all my bills living in a town of 30,000 people making what I make now with my main job. Here in Austin I need a second job to make up the difference. My old town would be wiped out with that kind of min wage. Because I read that others are talking about milk as an example but really if a small store has to pay people twice as much they have to comp that somehow so yes the milk could go up. Then there are things like where you are. Milk in Hawaii is crazy because it has to be brought in and has nothing to do with min wage.
Think about this for a moment. It takes 40 senators to stop any piece of legislation dead in its tracks. Can you hear the screaming from places like Kansas, Alabama, Wyoming, etc, if their senators gave a raise to "city slickers" and fucked over "real 'murricans?"
