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7. $2k doesn't come close, how about raising minimum wage and retirement benifits?

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 10:20 AM

21 hrs ago

Minimum wage in 1968 at $1.60 an hour converts to $14.47 an hour now. Compare that to $7.25 as the current federal minimum. So workers at the bottom were worth twice as much back then. How about we triple minimum wage and this time let's not leave out overtime for farm workers. Then lets go for single payer healthcare. Do it right, make sure at the end of the year that what we have is better than anyone in Europe gets. If you balance the budget at the same time by taxing rich folk, profits, capitol gains, and bitcoins every time they are exchanged to real money or goods, then we can talk.

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