The argument for not raising the minimum wage is that it would be a job killer. I believe citizens should challenge their representatives in the Senate and House who are against raising the minimum wage to a liveable wage, be paid 7.25 an hour for a month. Suspend their usual salaries and see if they and their families can live on roughly 58.00 a day. Currently the long shadow of the Guilded Age is looming over our country. With the rich getting richer and more breaks, while the middle class is on a downturn, The days when men like JP Morgan, John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie influenced policy over the masses was brought to a halt by President Theodore Rosevelt, a man of privilege himself. Prepare to live what you believe. Walk in the shoes of those who struggle to support families
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