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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (473123)

5/6/2021 1:03:23 PM

From: koan

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By 2029!? That is nuts! By 2029 it should probably be closer to $25 and hour.

At $11, millions will remain in abject poverty, and you are fine with that going on for another nine years.

Why don't you try a little empathy and see how that works!!

You are more worried about a few businesses paying slave labor going out of business than the millions of poverty stricken people. How Republican!

Fortunately, the Democratic party has more sense, and I am sure will stick to $15!

It will be a hard fight though and tough getting past the Republicans and Manchin who agree with you.

But I don't think the Democrats in the main are in any mood to compromise on that figure.

I explained to you that in the BIG picture the majority of people and society will be better off by doing $15 now, but it seems to have gone in one ear and out the other.

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"So why do you think say $11 is better than $15" I think anything more than $1/hr/year will hurt small businesses. I'm OK with $15 in '29. = "the total benefit will be to the good for our society" Then society should be paying the bills, using methods like tax credits. We just did that, in fact, but it's only temporary....