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Originally Posted by Gulfcoast
The problem is that all wages and the prices for everything (goods/services/housing) will also go up as the minimum wage rises. It's all relative.
This isn't going to make things better for the low wage earners and it's going to be terrible for the retirees in Florida who are already living on a fixed income.
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I don't really disagree with you, but I believe it is not the retirees who will suffer most, but the working families who work for minimum wage. EVERYTHING will now be further from their grasp, from a new car to a meal out to a simple ice cream cone. I agree it will be hard on fixed income retirees, but most (I am not saying ALL, just most) retirees have SS and some other source of income, and many have TWO SS checks coming in, others have savings, 401K, various pensions, and for some they have their minimum wage job AND a SS check coming in. Again, I AGREE it is tough on retirees, but not as tough as it will be on these poor folks trying to raise a family and have some decent quality of life at a minimum wage job that will now go to $15 an hour and make quality of life even more difficult for them. At $13 an hour perhaps they could treat their children to a $2.50 ice cream cone once in awhile, when those cones go to $3.50 ? Well, figure it out, $1.00 increase is 40%, but the $15 an hour is not going to be a 40% increase in wages for our lowest paid workers. What if a simple hot dog also goes to $3.50, a $1.25 soda goes to $1.50 and so on for every item they have to put in their shopping baskets.