Minimum wage should be $21.72 per hour.

[liberalmike27]

17. Maybe

But if you made $21 an hour, you could buy one if you like, or just buy some beef and fry one up when you get home. It makes choices more important, but certainly could take you out of poverty, were you to make the correct choices. Just having choices would be more than with $7.25/hr.

Besides, you're just citing the republican argument for not giving people a decent wage for work. Everyone deserves a job, and a living wage. IF you have to supplement businesses to do so, by taxing the richest people, then so be it. The most important thing is there is opportunity, and a society that works.

Look at us now, we're this cut-throat society where every day people are shooting people, mostly from poverty and the despair they live in, and when you adopt republican arguments, you're just saying that is the world in which you want to live. It wasn't fantastic back in the 1960's and 1970's, but it damn sure wasn't as bad and hopeless as this brave new Republican/neo-Democratic world.

As the robots become ever more popular, while people don't give a thought to having six or seven children, what is the plan? Are we going to try to figure out more ways to imprison people, or to get them to knock one-another off, while the super-rich huddle in their panic-rooms? Seems we all need to start about how we make for a working society again, rather than the 1980s give it all to a small slice and let them piss on you, the trickle down.