Originally Posted by pan6467

I just want to know why it is so wrong to expect that men and women who work 40 hours a week make liveable wages and not have to go into debt, not have to have their intelligence or desires questioned.

If a person works 40 hours a week, they should be entitled to, have a right to and be able to make enough to live comfortably on and not have ANYONE question their integrity.

As for raising minimum wage.... here's a novel idea..... instead make it so that every time a CEO takes a raise (including ALL forms of compensation, stock options, bonuses, etc.), 110% is added to the worker.

So if a CEO makes a million one year and decides he needs a 100% raise and pays himself 2 million the next, the company's workers get 110% raise.

If there is a company that has say 1,000 employees and the CEO takes a $1 million raise and bonus and perks..... that those 1,000 workers each could have had a $10,000 a year raise? Imagine the dedication, loyalty and incentive you would create in your workforce if you said.... "I'll not take a raise this year, (or I'll drop my $11 mill salary to $10 Mill), and give it to the workers that produce the product the raise instead.

Let's see a CEO say that instead of why if minimum wage goes up, the prices of goods go up and he still takes a huge ass raise.

PS by giving the workers that raise also, increases the tax base thus takes some of the burden of the CEO.