Reply #10: Considering that minimum wage... [View All]

[Mithras61]

pay $10,920 for straight full-time employment, and the poverty line for a family of four is somewhere in the neighborhood of $18K, it sure seems that two incomes would be required (if the 'pukes get us all on minimum wage like they want). I'd really like to see some minimum wage legislation that would tie the minimum wage to the poverty line. For example, a minimum wage job has to provide a single person enough money to live at the poverty line, plus federal & state taxes are not levied until you make more than the poverty line, and then create a formula to set the poverty line at some realistic level.