McRocket, I'm a proponent of annually increasing the federal minimum wage rate 12% until its purchasing power's at least 20% higher than its 1968 peak. Thereafter the rate should continue to be monitored and annually modified to retain its purchasing power.
Although all federal branches of government would continue to be empowered to monitor and if necessary oversee the minimum wage rate, if our U.S. Congress would just once set a realistic rate pegged to the consumer price index, the rate would remain hence forte a matter subject to civil service statisticians rather than to congressional politicians.
I'm an old man but I hope and I believe this is likely to occur within my lifetime.
Respectfully, Supposn
Although all federal branches of government would continue to be empowered to monitor and if necessary oversee the minimum wage rate, if our U.S. Congress would just once set a realistic rate pegged to the consumer price index, the rate would remain hence forte a matter subject to civil service statisticians rather than to congressional politicians.
I'm an old man but I hope and I believe this is likely to occur within my lifetime.
Respectfully, Supposn