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Old 04-29-2023, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser View Post
Why does the minimum wage get raised? Ordinary people/workers look at the life that the top US 1% has and asks why did the rich get a tax break and NOT the poor? Why give a special tax break to the Zuckerbergs, Bezos, and Elon Musks of the world? The prior admin made that happen! Ordinary people have NOT gotten a minimum wage increase in over 30 years. Finally, recently, the job market has begun to favor the worker and they can and will ask for more wages. (unfortunately, a recession may be in the future, which would erase the worker's gains.)
......Please, try to feel good about the ordinary worker FINALLY being in a position of having some TRIVIAL POWER.
Just what "tax break" would that be????

The top 1% of earners paid 40% of all income tax collected in 2018

The top 10% paid 68%

and the top 53% paid 100% of all income tax

So maybe those "ordinary workers" can climb the ladder and start paying THEIR "fair share"