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To: Road Walker who wrote (300162)	8/18/2006 11:57:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574092

re: The only reason that the minimum wage doesn't really do any harm is that its low. Raise it to enough to support a family of 4 at the national average living cost, and you put a lot of people out of work. Easy to say. So are you asserting that say a $15 an hour minimum wage wouldn't put a lot of people out of work? If so that's a rather extreme statement. If not why bother with the "easy to say" comment? A living wage was pretty much a given for anyone willing to work as I grew up in this country. When did you grow up? Average real wages have never been significantly higher. Depending on what data you are looking at and how you adjust for inflation they might have at certain points been marginally higher, but never much higher.