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Originally Posted by RickeyD

They are obligated because they choose to do business in our country and our country belongs to it's citizens, not corporations. Living wage calculators are available online broken down to each county in each state. Besides, NY & California are going to $15 an hour, the rest will fill in. Those that don't will dry up.

If as you post, "..our country belongs to it's citizens, not corporations.", should the government then be paying the 'living wage'; and does it not attempt to do that by establishing a poverty level, minimum wage and welfare benefits?

I don't know where you spent your years in a career so I have to ask...if your employer[s] had been required to pay everyone in its/their employ a 'living wage' - how many employees would it/they have had and how long would they have stayed in business and what would it/they have had to charge for its/their product/service?

I spent 30+ years in fiscal work for private and public employers - each one paying employees within a broad salary range based on prevailing market rates for their appropriate and required skill set. Had either entity had to pay each of us a 'living wage' the private insurance company and hospital would have gone out of business and the public sector jobs would have pushed taxpayers into bankruptcy and onto welfare; and their failure to remit property/income taxes would have caused a government collapse.