Quote:The argument is:

 

You can't raise a family or even expect people to live on a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour

 

the proposed solution is

 

Raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour

 

My counter is:

 

You still can't raise a family or support yourself on $10.10 an hour so what's the point?

Another problem is you are using the same faulty argument and examples as the rest of the right wing brass. 

 

 

a) if you want to raise the minimum wage to X why not raise it to eleventy billion dollars?!?!  (or in examples of this thread 30/hour or 200/hour 

b) 10.10 you want isn't enough so why bother doing it at all?

 

See the problem with these two statement? One they set the goalposts so far off to attempt to make the whole argument seem to be silly. The second frames the statement in a way to make the whole argument seem pointless. 

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