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Election 2024: Kamala Harris on NBC vows to double federal minimum wage to $15

www.telegraph.co.uk Election 2024: Kamala Harris on NBC vows to double federal minimum wage to $15

Kamala Harris has announced plans to more than double the federal minimum wage if she wins the presidency.

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$15/hr works out to be about 30k/yr. That's not enough to live on. We need a $30 minimum wage. It needs to be indexed to both inflation as well as congressional salary. If they get a raise, everyone gets a raise.
- Yeah that fight for 15 was in 2016. We are way past that fight needs to be fucking 25 to 30. But watch every single fucking Republican will vote against any increases of minimum wage. 7.25 is a fucking joke and law makers should be fucking ashame of themselves.
  
  Actually any of them vote no on a raise should have all their money seized and made to live on minimum wage for 5 years.
  
  Law makers should be making 7.25 an hour, and only when they are on the floor.
  
  Why not pay everyone fairly instead of incentivizing further corruption through bribery? I'm definitely not going to dispute that they should be paid for the quality and quantity of results generated in terms of legislation...
  
  IMO government work should be volunteer, but you get your clothes, food, and living expenses paid for our of a set budget. You take no salary and accept no bribes, you live in "Government City". Essentially your finances go null entropy while in office. You do a good job? Public likes you? Private sector likes you? You're top of the list for top paying jobs when you step down.
  
  But only AFTER you do the good work we need leaders to do for us.
  
  All of the Representative jobs used to be part time. ie People had real jobs that earned their living, and they also did their government work on top of that. And that was when travel took forever.
  
  In other words, one of the primary reasons we are at this point today, is because far too many politicians realized they could simply bilk the State, while doing fuckall for careers spanning 30-40-50 YEARS.
  
  If we take President Biden as an example, the man was elected to the US Senate in 1972! And there are many such examples.
  
  And what's been the outcome? A better democratic process? No. Higher quality of life for citizens? No. More competitive American goods in the Intl marketplace? No.
  
  So what are we getting for our dollars? And why would we want these fossils (regardless of Party) to remain? They're clearly not serving American interests.
- Canadian but same problem here. Long term we need UBI worldwide if we plan on ever moving forward as a species.
  
  Short term we need benefits for those less fortunate keyed to inflation at a bare minimum. In Ontario people with disabilities are paid below the poverty line. It's disgusting.
- And while we're at it, we need to improve and standardize how we measure inflation. Big screen TVs getting cheaper doesn't matter to most people.

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