• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    3 months ago

    If you got paid $11 an hour in 2019, that means on the average you now make $14.52 an hour – which means even accounting for inflation you’re coming out ahead.

    definitely not enough to make much of a difference in a country where half can’t afford their rent and groceries are likewise becoming unaffordable. And that’s saying nothing about cost-prohibitive health care and education or child care.

    You’re like the third person in the last 24 hours who has persistently failed to understand the entire concept of inflation-adjusted wages – the idea that someone’s wages could rise by so much that even with rent and groceries more expensive now, they could still wind up ahead. You understand that that’s what happened, right? Or not yet?

    His record demonstrates that he’s legislating more for the billionaire class than the poor.

    What record is that?

    What’s your assessment of the meaning of Amazon’s quarterly tax rate over time, and its connection to Biden’s 15% minimum corporate tax?