My answer is more radical. Tie their tax breaks to the linearly interpolated value of the median wage in the company between minimum wage and whatever is actually a living wage. At halfway between the two they get an equilibrium point, below it is a harsh penalty, above is an increasing percentage of their tax break. Wonder how long it would take of McDonalds owing an obscene penalty on their taxes before they started actually paying employees.

I would also be in favor of levying MASSIVE corporate tax penalties for every employee on government assistance. At this point, government programs are less socialism for the people and more socialism for the likes of WalMart.

This thread is chock full of idiots who would vote to lower their own wages because of a spectacular misunderstanding of how inflation works.

Either that or trolls looking to encourage others to fight against raising their own wages.

Either way, it's sickening.

I love that all the Usual Suspects showed up on this thread to push "BOTH SIDES".

Why don't states with Dem majorities raise the local wage to match housing costs?

Washington State, New York, Minnesota... none of these states have escaped this problem.

Yes. Good meme. More like this.

So, honest question that comes of my own ignorance. Is a minimum wage supposed to be livable? I always figured minimum wage jobs were for people like teens who didn't need to afford housing.