your typical hs kid feels they should be getting more for flipping burgers or bagging groceries
it's not just kids who are performing this labor, it's alot of grown-ups with familys.
with all of the recent layoffs in the past few years they said that near 60% of the people who found jobs found jobs for less pay... i would imagine their mortgage payment, rent, medical costs, gas prices, and other things they need did not go down in cost
the minimum wage should be changed. the current 7 dollars or so should be for kids from 15-18 and it should go up with age 19-21 11 dollars, 21-25 15dollars, 26-60 19 dollars(this is where people are more likely to be married with familys)
an example i'll give you is Walmart - i doubt people can make a decent to good living working there or raise a family. but you have 3 of the owners that make the billionaire list each year. i feel they should increase salaries and benefits because they could do it and continue to be billionaires. most of the employees work hard regardless of what they do.
in the news article about Kerry's wife, it showed that she does not pay close to the amount of taxes she is supposed to. many of the wealthy know how to use the system to avoid it and they earn the most interest on their money
if you are at the bottom of the financial ladder you get to
> pay a penalty for not putting 20% down on a home
> pay a penalty for not keeping the 3 or 5k in your checking
> the 17% interest on your car loan because you may have a mark on your credit
> pay the highest insurance premiums because you live in the worst neighborhood
> pay for auto repairs because you can't afford a new car every 2 or 3 years so you try to maintain your car for 7 to 10
these are a few of the ways the people at the top take advantage and the people at the bottom get taken advantage of...
there is opportunity for everyone, you just might have to make shit with that opportunity...
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