Our right-wing legislature is about to take up the Arkansas Minimum wage, which stands at t hefty $6.25 per hour. That's $50 a day, $200 a week, for a fifty week total of $10,000. That's before taxes, and social security, and health-care, if available. In reality, there generally is no health-care, and a person would be lucky to get 40 hours per week.
The wise one's want to raise the minimum wage to $8.25. That's a dollar below the federal minimum wage. At $8.25, that's a whooping $66 dollars per day, $330 dollars per week, and $16,500 dollars per year, for fifty weeks. Again, that's before taxes, social security, and health-care, if available.
Taking either of these wages, be it $6.25 or $8.25, it's a pathetic sin. none of these bozo's could make it on either salary. In fact, none of them could do the work required for an hours worth of salary. It would take some backbone, some common sense thinking, and a great restraint to not shot the employer, none of which they possess. If I were a minimum wage worker, I'd spit in their face as they filed out, headed for their favorite tavern to talk with their favorite secretary. Or maybe I'd just take pictures.
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