Jonathan Bailey
Well-Known Member
a better idea might be for the federal govt. to mandate a minimum wage that may vary from state to state and city to city based on one's buying power in a particular location, the local cost of living index
a sliding scale minimum wage based on local economies nationwide
A full-time janitor living and working in San Francisco should have the same buying power on his wages than a full-time janitor living and working in Muskogee, Oklahoma has in that town.
The janitor living and working in San Francisco is going to need a considerably higher wage than an Oklahoma janitor.
As rich as San Francisco is, I don't think those bank executives in the financial district on Market Street want dirty office buildings there and certainly the college-educated there aren't going to push brooms or floor waxing machines.
Still, the mandate should be for a doable living wage that fully satisfies all human living needs no matter what we do for a living, and where we live and work whether we push brooms, paint curbs, read parking meters, perform brain surgery, flip Big Macs or swing carpenter hammers clad in bib overalls.
a sliding scale minimum wage based on local economies nationwide
A full-time janitor living and working in San Francisco should have the same buying power on his wages than a full-time janitor living and working in Muskogee, Oklahoma has in that town.
The janitor living and working in San Francisco is going to need a considerably higher wage than an Oklahoma janitor.
As rich as San Francisco is, I don't think those bank executives in the financial district on Market Street want dirty office buildings there and certainly the college-educated there aren't going to push brooms or floor waxing machines.
Still, the mandate should be for a doable living wage that fully satisfies all human living needs no matter what we do for a living, and where we live and work whether we push brooms, paint curbs, read parking meters, perform brain surgery, flip Big Macs or swing carpenter hammers clad in bib overalls.