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If $5.15 is still livable for a single person though, then why raise it that high? Because $5.15 is NOT a viable wage even for one person, let alone a

Why not pay $80 an hour? Simple. There is the obvious reality that the average small business could not pay that level of a wage withhout going under. Could that same business pay $8 an hour, definitely. Why $8 to begin with? Because that is an inflation-adjusted number based an an old formula for the base wage that will provide the most basic necessities of life for ONE person. Should a set dollar amount apply acr

There is something very simple currently being ignored in this discussion. Time and time again history shown that neither initial establishment of a minimum wage, nor any subsequent raises have wreaked any of the feared economic repercussions. Businesses have never failed because they have to pay the petty margins of increase in the minimum wage. Nor has it ever harmed the economy. One kernel of truth in prior arguments is the reality that in