Minimum Wage

[BBWrider]

So minimum wage might be going up to $9 an hour. That means one of two things (or a combination of both): The price of Blow jobs is going to go up by 24%, or people are going to buy 24% fewer blow jobs. Either way it's not good for America.

[Sweet N Little]

[gnadfly]

In Texas a minimum wage bump just means more Americans will get laid off and more Mexicans will be hired in their place.

[pravda]

That's way too high.

[Don T. Lukbak]

The higher the minimum wage the greater the loss of entry level employment, aka opportunity, for unskilled young chicks. Ergo, cheaper blowjobs. Imagine Cuba as we descend into Third World Shitholedom.

[Trey]

I hate it too for some reason people think minimum wage should afford them a great life, kids and all. If anything it should go down, make people strive for more or sleep on the floor.

[jbravo_123]

Current minimum wage in Texas is $7.25/hr, so $15080 per year before taxes.

$9/hr is $18720 per year pre tax / SS / Medicare, etc.

I don't think anyone really believes that's going to give them a baller lifestyle for them and their kids.

[BBWrider]

It's the poor bastards making $12-$15 an hour that are really going to hurt from this.

[Guest123018-4]

Do not forget about earned income credit where the government pays you for not making much money.
The converse is that the more you make the more the government takes. The government position is to pay you for lack of success and to punish you for being successful.
They like to call it "progressive".

[enderwiggin]

Originally Posted by jbravo_123

Current minimum wage in Texas is $7.25/hr, so $15080 per year before taxes.

$9/hr is $18720 per year pre tax / SS / Medicare, etc.

I don't think anyone really believes that's going to give them a baller lifestyle for them and their kids.

No they're not, but then again people shouldn't be trying to raise families and pay mortgages on the wages from unskilled, entry-level positions. Those jobs are intended for people just entering the work force, i.e. students, stay-at-home moms reentering the force after 15 years hiatus, etc.

Bear in mind the government and any number of private organizations provide skills training at low or no cost, so there is no reason for anyone to remain in a minimum wage job unless they are lazy, disrespectful or completely incompetent. People determined to succeed in our society can and will find a way... and then the government punishes the shit out of them.

[Guest123018-4]

Hey you did not do that on your own, Obama did that for you and now you must pay and pay and pay and pay.............

Tenaris will be building a pipe plant near Bay City with an anticipated employment of 600 not including the 1.5 billion spent to build and equip the plant. Unfortunately this is an oil related business and not solar or wind or some other fanciful drain on our tax dollars. Maybe they will need enough power to warrant another nuke. That would be so sweet. Got any idea of how much that would contribute to the economy? It is unfortunate that the leftists and the Obama administration have no clue what the energy industry does for our prosperity. Instead of trying to kill it, they should be trying to grow it in a manner tha actually produces rather than drains.

[PCF41 Lucky Dog]

I'm with you T2D, but IMO it's not just the liberals who are hurting us and the country, it's all of those in Congress, regardless of Party. They have betrayed the country!
2 points;
Who believes we can continue to spend far More that we take in in taxes?
and on Guns:

Who believes that the criminals and the crazies will obey the new gun law - or any law?

[LittleSpike]

Despite the party in power, the agenda has been the same, for at least the past 40 years, "Reduce America to a Third World Nation".

LS

[Guest050715-1]

Originally Posted by jbravo_123

Current minimum wage in Texas is $7.25/hr, so $15080 per year before taxes.

$9/hr is $18720 per year pre tax / SS / Medicare, etc.

I don't think anyone really believes that's going to give them a baller lifestyle for them and their kids.

Then the good daddy to us all Obama has placed the benchmark for supplementing mandatory insurance below the minimum wage ($14,400). Good on him.

[jbravo_123]

Originally Posted by OliviaHoward

Then the good daddy to us all Obama has placed the benchmark for supplementing mandatory insurance below the minimum wage ($14,400). Good on him.

It's actually a little more complicated than that.

Section 1501 of the ACA Individual Responsibility part details some exemptions to individuals who cannot afford coverage or if coverage would be too much of a hardship for them.

Some exemptions, for example are for if coverage would cost more than 8% of your annual income and there's actually a scaling hardship factor based on the size of your household & income: