Do you think the Federal minimum wage should be $15 per hour?

[daredtowork]

138. We need more Federal infrastructure

The invocation of "States Rights" has not resulted in glorious competition leading to better States - it has resulted in States hustling for pork barrel deals in Congress while quietly trying to arrange things so their problems (especially the problem of "poor people&quot get offloaded to other States.

Because of States Rights we have awful inequities in Affordable Care Act coverage. We have ATROCITIES in welfare policy literally designed to create such inhumane conditions that the poor will "drift" somewhere where "suckers" are more generous. And of course we have the uneven minimum wage where every time one place tries to raise it, businesses can easily flee to another place where minimum wage isn't "oppressing" them so much.

For heaven's sake people! Would we really be in danger of encroaching Totalitarianism if we allowed just a little more organized development of a national public services infrastructure? In theory, even in those tiny rural Southern towns, businesses would be able to afford a higher minimum wage if employees were making more money.

I think the trick here is how to raise the minimum wage and essentially raise all these boats together without undermining the value of those wages with a corresponding rise of prices and rent-taking. Both sides of this issue need to be addressed at the same time in order for this to be a real moment of change.