Reply #31: And that's a straw man - don't expect to use a right-wing talking point and not be challenged [View All]

[bread_and_roses]

You understand perfectly well the point to which I was speaking - your claim (or at least sounded so) that some workers do not "need" a higher minimum wage because they have other income in their household. As if the minor % of cases where that was true should dictate policy? As if retirees, for instance, go to work as Wal-Mart greeters or stand in high heels all day behind a cosmetics counter at the Mall when they don't "need" the money? And just how do we know which teens, for that matter, are working for CDs and which are working to contribute to the family or to put the clothes their parents can't afford on their own backs - not designer clothes, just clothes - things like shoes and warm coats? Given the wage stagnation in this country there are a good few who's family cannot provide for them - I guess they don't "need" a better wage?

As for labeling, notice that I did not label you, but the arguement - which is indeed a standard right-wing distraction thrown out every time the subject of raising the minimum wage comes up - no matter how far that wage has fallen from its original standard in real $$. Don't expect to use a right-wing arguement and not be challenged on it.