Pfft! Why ask for a minimum wage? The Progressives should be demanding a Basic Income Guarantee (B.I.G.)*! No one earns under or over $50,000. If you earn more, you have to give it over to the Government for the common good, of course.
* On Switzerland Generation Basic Income Referendum —“If unemployment goes up, that’s a great thing,” says Daniel Straub, the coordinator of the referendum effort and author of The Liberation of Switzerland. “Because we should see unemployment as freeing people up to pursue what creates meaning for them.” Adds Enno Schmidt, a painter and documentary film producer who’s campaigned for the idea since 2006: “It’s not societally very efficient if people are forced to do something that they don’t really want to do.”
* On Switzerland Generation Basic Income Referendum —“If unemployment goes up, that’s a great thing,” says Daniel Straub, the coordinator of the referendum effort and author of The Liberation of Switzerland. “Because we should see unemployment as freeing people up to pursue what creates meaning for them.” Adds Enno Schmidt, a painter and documentary film producer who’s campaigned for the idea since 2006: “It’s not societally very efficient if people are forced to do something that they don’t really want to do.”
I want to be able to eat and live indoors...so I want to do that which enables me to do so...so I do something someone else wants and is willing to give me some resources if I do it for them. I am free to not do it, I just don’t get the resources if I’m not helpful or useful.
Well, we have at least one potential presidential candidate who has been very explicit about that concept.
“Many of you are well enough off that [President Bush's] tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to have to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.” (Hillary grandstanding at a fund raising speech in San Francisco; SFGate.com 6/28/2004.)
"God bless the America we are trying to create."
“We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices…. Government has to make those choices for people” (From the book “I’ve Always Been A Yankee Fan” by Thomas D. Kuiper, p 20 – Hillary to Rep. Dennis Hastert in 1993 discussing her expensive, disastrous taxpayer-funded health care plan)