That’s my exact point. Thank you. TX is not CA or NYC. If the people of NYC want to pay their McDonalds workers 20/hr, fine by them.
The problem is when they try to jack up the minimum wage laws to screw everyone else over.
If they came here? They’d either:
1, get bored and leave, or:
2, get a gun, go to church and love it here. :)
I left a socialist hellhole myself to come down to Texas, and I couldn’t be happier.
“That’s my exact point. Thank you. TX is not CA or NYC. If the people of NYC want to pay their McDonalds workers 20/hr, fine by them.”
I agree that this is more of a regional issue.
The issue IMO of a federal minimum wage is that it’s a big city solution that doesn’t work in rural areas.
Like your personal example of living well on less.
I know small town folks who have combined incomes of 50-60K a year and they live well.
A mandated minimum wage of say $12 an hour would seriously damage a lot of small town economies.
By that same notion though, you can’t expect a small town solution to remedy stagnant wages and skyrocketing costs of living in a place like NYC.
The argument that says they should just move is a bit simple minded. It’s like saying if you don’t have enough...well make more money.