[hophead]

Sounds like the wage someone would earn if they stayed in and finished high school.

I like the "certain amount of recreation" part. I guess that means $150 Air Jordans and a Playstation2.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Minimum employability is more like it!

[Doogle]

shuuush...common sense has no place in the agenda

[Brilliant]

Living wage? You've gotta do more than just live. In order to have the capacity to enjoy life, you've gotta earn an "enjoyable living wage."

[Atlas Sneezed]

I'm fine with all that:

Move to an unfashionable neighborhood of an unfashionable town.
Find a roommate.
Share an apartment near the busline.
Sell your car.
Shop at Goodwill.
Get a job or two.
Don't procreate.
Learn to cook your own meals from "ingredients" (see Goodwill for cookbook, pots and pans).
Enjoy your recreation at public parks and libraries.
When you get tired of this, develop skills, attitude, and experience that make you worth more to an employer.

$5 an hour is enough, and you can even buy your own health and disability insurance.

[CSM]

I guess they want our economy to mimick France. Economic idiots, one and all....

Why are schools required to teach sex ed, but not economics?

[PetroniDE]

I like the "certain amount of recreation" part. I guess that means $150 Air Jordans and a Playstation2.

Playstation 3 --- don't forget some games to get with it.

[irishtenor]

I like the idea of a "Maximun Yearly Wage" so that there are more jobs and everybody makes the same. For example, if the MYW is $100,000, then Bill Gates works for approximately 2 hours a year. Then someone else steps in to do that job.
A factory worker would be available to work the whole year, unless he gets Bill Gates' job for a couple of hours.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How is it the government's role to tell an employer what he must pay a worker? I feel the "minimum wage" laws are unconstitutional and should be struck down by the Supreme Court.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This would work fine if they also mandate a living profit for employers.

If an employer loses money paying his workers a living wage, the federal, state and local governments would pay that employer an earned income tax credit that would come out of those government's tax revenues.

What's good for the goose...

[YoungAmerican84]

"I like the "certain amount of recreation" part. I guess that means $150 Air Jordans and a Playstation2."

I would say the occasional CD, DVD, movie ticket, etc.

[AmericanChef]

If you can't find it in your power to advance beyond minimum wage you have a lot more than housing, food, clothing and recreation to worry about!

[Blogatron]

If a kid came into your store and said "I want to be a grocery-bagger for the rest of my life." You wouldn't hire him.

If a career can-stacker proposed marriage to you, you would reject him.

Why do we need to give a living wage to part-time, temporary, and extra-income employment?

[Whispering Smith]

A "Living Wage" is unequal pay for equal work.