I think people trying to convince others need to start comparing it to time vs items, not simple $ value.
Older people voting see $7.25/hour and still think that’s good because it’s X% more than what it was when they were young.
Instead market it as “The minimum wage should be at least three loaves of bread per hour, up from two loaves of bread.”
In 1960 the minimum wage was about 4 loaves of bread. At the moment in Oklahoma it’s 2 loaves of bread.
Do people just like being cucked by the rich or something? It’s gotta be some sort of fetish for Americans at this point.
Because most voters aren’t making the minimum wage. So say the minimum wage is $10, but you’re making $16, and the min wage gets brought up by $5 to $15. The person making $16 an hour isn’t going to get a raise, or if they do, it won’t be a $5 raise. They’ll just be making $1 over minimum wage, only now everything in the state will adjust upwards in costs, because capitalism. Rent rates and used car prices will go up. Groceries will get a bit more. Places will charge more for child care.
If you weren’t making close to minimum wage, it hurts you more than it helps.
This is a perpetual problem. The fix is simple. Instead of trying to make low incomes higher for a short term amount of help; tax the fuck out of the top end. That will lessen the burden on everyone else, provide more money to help those in need, prevent the oligarchs from just trying to hoard their wealth and put it back out into their companies rather than paying more in taxes, etc.
In short, raising minimum wage is a dumb thing to focus on, when the real focus should be on lowering the top.
If you’re not talking about voter suppression you’re doing conservatives’ work for them
e; “Oklahoma’s election laws inhibit voter participation, create more extreme candidates, experts say” (arc)
She said that she hopes for higher turnout in November with Vice President Kamala Harris facing former President Donald Trump to become the next United States president.
Boy, do I have bad news for this nearly 2-year-old article…
One of the more subtle things done for voter manipulation here in OK is putting the polling places in the lobbies of nursing homes.
You have to drive and find parking. But Gertrude, class of '65, can hobble out into the lobby and vote like Focks Noos told her to, and it only takes five minutes. And there are 200+ residents right behind her doing the same thing, at every nursing home that has a polling place in it on election day.
I think it has to do more with brainwashing than voter suppression. I don’t believe they managed to suppress 90% of voters.
- Pretty sure the margin in this vote was a little less than 90%
- Saying “I believe other people have been brainwashed” without even making a gesture at evidence to support your own claim seems a bit ironic
