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Originally Posted by Adam  As far as people in the lowest class who can't afford to pay rent and eat at the same time, I think that it is far past time to raise the minimum wage, split the nation into distinct regions (such as by county/parish) and set the minimum wage according to the actual cost of living... This should be done *every* year, and should be increase *at least* at the rate of inflation.
But, I suppose that's just a pipe dream... It's not like it wouldn't take more than a few months in legislative debate, then the stroke of a mature, honest president's pen to make something like this happen. |
Is this a problem in Utah? In Colorado, no one gets paid minimum wage. It exists as a theoretical number, but you can't even get illegal immigrants to work for pay that low. So raising it wouldn't do a darned thing, except double the salary of all our government workers who get paid "X times minimum wage".
Not that these facts stopped us from raising it a couple weeks ago....