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$17.50 per hour is $33,000 per year thus $35 per hour is $66,000 per year which would eliminate the need for food stamps
29 Jun 2023 6:43 am
Far more people died with COVID than from COVID... and the Government went passed the point of "trying to convince" people to get the jab. They were moving into the "get it or else" territory in a lot of sectors.Bruce » 28 Jun 2023, 7:31 am » wrote: ↑ All of life involves compromises and risk taking.
Over a million Americans have died from Covid 19, and that number includes hundreds of thousands of Republicans too afraid or stubborn to get their shots.
Should the government in the future only offer shots to Democrats, who have enough common sense to get them?
No. A humane government doubles down trying to convince Republicans to get their shots.
There is an obvious problem of income disparity in this nation. Most of it is among less educated Republicans. By far, it’s Republicans who labor at low paying jobs in Red States. What should the government do?
The only long term remedy is public education, which lifts all boats.
But millions of Trump supporters would get a raise if the minimum wage was gradually, over a period of years, raised to $15 an hour.
The longer we wait, the more pain it will cause.
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