Raising the minimum wage to $15/hr is the moderate position.

[Yavin4]

1. The extreme right wing position is no minimum wage at all.

2. The less extreme right wing position is a minimum at below poverty levels.

3. The less extreme left wing position would be to tie employee salaries as a percentage of the CEO's compensation.

4. The extreme left wing position is abolishing Capitalism in favor of employee-owned cooperatives.


So, the $15/hr min wage is indeed the moderate position.

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. There you go, making sense. Nt

[Hoyt]

2. Personally, I don't care how much a CEO makes as long as they are balancing the

needs of society, employees, and the business, and being taxed properly. That’s not happening nowadays.

[SCantiGOP]

3. Amount is not as important

as the purchasing power.
$15 an hour today will buy what the minimum wage would in 1980. The purchasing power of the minimum wage has been decreasing for 40 years.

[betsuni]

4. Never understood why exactly fifteen dollars was the purity test of being "progressive."

Or why anyone would claim this was considered "radical" a few years ago. Ridiculous.