Raise it by $1 an hour every 6 months until it's up to $20.50 an hour (where it should be based on inflation) then chain it to inflation so it automatically goes up.

I remember when they screamed "the sky is falling" when they raised it from $4.25 to $4.85. Cheeseburgers were going to cost $20 if they did it.

Guess what, now I can still go buy a damn cheeseburger for a buck, just like I could 20 years ago.

Over a simple triple.

I want the single payer as well as the triple!

I'll settle for double, single payer, and no more tax refunds for $Billion+/yr corps, and a massive infrastructure overhaul of the entire US.



HA!

Welcome to DU, coljam!

any of the congressmen/women to come home and live on the minimum wage. Even if it was $9/hour. I would dare them to attempt to live on $25/hour. Buy a house. Buy a car. Send two children to school. Enjoy a movie. Join a bowling league or enroll in an exercise club. Out of touch, I say.

End unearned income for tax purposes. End a cap on social security tax. People who "earn", and I use that term loosely, the biggest share of the money should pay the biggest share of the taxes. Or at the very least the fair share of the taxes. And I won't even go into the corporate taxes, or should I say non taxes.

But the "liberally-biased media" can't make that connection ...

don't have an army of lobbyists bribing legislators, nor do they have Cayman Islands accounts to launder bribe money. .

they work for us.

At an hourly rate, not a salary rate.

We would all be making $30 an hour within 6 months.

in 1960 would get you five gallons of gas.

That godless commie liberal leftie.

CEO pay matters the fucking MOSTEST.

this country has been brain washed into believing we cannot afford SS, Medicare,Medicaid and so on. We can afford whatever we want, it is up to us to make our priorities the topic of discussion. NATION WIDE and in the main stream media.

I think everyone who opposes a minimum wage increase should try working for the minimum wage. I do, and if I didn't get help from my family, I would not be able to have a roof over my head while attending college.

I well remember working 2 jobs, so I could get enough hours, in college. Perspective employers will take into account the fact you worked and were able to graduate when get there.