Open Letter to Senator Sanders

By BetaWolfinVA

In Reply to https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/photos/a.517901514969574.1073741825.346937065399354/878800318879690/?type=1&theater
. 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) . Once These Value Metric Decisions are Made, then each jurisdiction would be beholden to determine what the living wage was for that area. . 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. . 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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Copyright Thursday, 2 July 2015 15:32 HHMCameron
Published on Thursday, July 9, 2015.     Filed under: "Political" and "Journal"
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