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Open Letter to Senator Sanders
In Reply to https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/photos/a.517901514969574.1073741825.346937065399354/878800318879690/?type=1&theater
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Senator Sanders, The $15 Dollar an Hour Wage panders to the News Media, other Senators, and Representatives. It gives them sound-bytes, an easy number to fight for or against.
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The Living Wage issue needs to be settled for all time by establishing a Federal Metric for purchasing power that includes needful things like Lodging, Commuting, Food, Services that allow for minimum wage workers to use this as a spring board, and other need full things.
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What also needs to be considered is if it should be a Family Wage where a Single worker could possibly support a family of four after the exemptions and deductions, or if it should be a living wage for a single person (that is NOT a Waiver-able Teenager over 16 enrolled in High School in shop class, Not a Trainee under 20 in the first 90 Days)
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Once These Value Metric Decisions are Made, then each jurisdiction would be beholden to determine what the living wage was for that area.
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If these Local Living/Family Wages were revised yearly, to adjust for cost of living increases, the Recurring nightmare of "This City Got that so I want it" or "I will not pay that much for Teenagers" or any of the throw away comments that have clogged social media.
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https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/photos/a.517901514969574.1073741825.346937065399354/878800318879690/?type=1&comment_id=878928932200162&offset=0&total_comments=68&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R0%22%7D
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Senator Sanders, The $15 Dollar an Hour Wage panders to the News Media, other Senators, and Representatives. It gives them sound-bytes, an easy number to fight for or against.
.
The Living Wage issue needs to be settled for all time by establishing a Federal Metric for purchasing power that includes needful things like Lodging, Commuting, Food, Services that allow for minimum wage workers to use this as a spring board, and other need full things.
.
What also needs to be considered is if it should be a Family Wage where a Single worker could possibly support a family of four after the exemptions and deductions, or if it should be a living wage for a single person (that is NOT a Waiver-able Teenager over 16 enrolled in High School in shop class, Not a Trainee under 20 in the first 90 Days)
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Once These Value Metric Decisions are Made, then each jurisdiction would be beholden to determine what the living wage was for that area.
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If these Local Living/Family Wages were revised yearly, to adjust for cost of living increases, the Recurring nightmare of "This City Got that so I want it" or "I will not pay that much for Teenagers" or any of the throw away comments that have clogged social media.
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https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/photos/a.517901514969574.1073741825.346937065399354/878800318879690/?type=1&comment_id=878928932200162&offset=0&total_comments=68&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R0%22%7D
Published 10th Jul 2015
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