Minimum Wage Increase?

I'd say DAMN 3 packs a DAY? DAMN!

I think it was three 70 cent raises. I want to say January 1, 2007, January 1, 2008 and the final one would be June 1, 2009.

Yeah, and I'm going to be quitting too. I'm on my last pack. It sucks when you have to catch your breath after doing nothing more than pushing out a fart.

Either that, or it's because they have to make up for the loss to their business due to theft.

I could be wrong, but from what I've been told if you have someone making $7.00 an hour and minimum wage was to be increased by $.40/hr you would have to raise that employees pay by $.40 so that employee would then be making $7.40/hr. This was in Indiana so it could be different there.

Please quit attacking Walmart, they may be the evil at hand at the moment, but really, they stole the idea from KMart, and KMart was the start of all of this price gouging, and lack of employee compensations

There is no taxpayer in the American comunity who would pay for those classes (which I find essental also) to be funded. Back when education was a prioity to the people in a school system, they had programs like that. Unfortunatly, as it becomes a more sport oriented, lack of eduacation school systems, no one really cares about that stuff anymore, but man, cut funding for the all state basket ball team, and the levy passes!

Wow, have I prooved your point or what? Ha ha ha.... oh, and I did quit smoking, bc of pretty much what you said, but I'm just broker. Not bc I'm some smart finacial wizard who realized that "hey, let's live on the same means, and bank the money I'm saving!" like I idealically thought that I was going to, now, I just spend it on my kids. After my budget for the bills and stuff, and I get neccessities like clothes for them, it's all toys and taking them out to dinner or something. I could be smart and put it to collage, but really, I have no will to do that. So, once more, I proove your point! At least I was agreeing with you to begin with.

Very true, and you know, some of those places, don't pay any more money to the employees eigther. Now, with gas prices the way they are, those poor people are stuck with even less.

I think that I just prooved that in a post. It was the mention of the money I was not saving bc of not smoking. I had it, so I spent it.

No, I used to serve, and, in a good, upscale resteraunt, you can make like 15 sometimes even 20 per hour on tips alone! This is extra income, and not even all of it has to be taxed. I can't remember the accual percentage of sales that you have to claim, but it's was always well below what I had made for that night.

Don't get me wrong, some waitresses don't come close to making that, I never worked in an upscale restauraunt, I did Denny's and Steak n Shake. I was lucky if I made an extra hundred a week., but I know people who work at places like the Olive Garden, and they would bring an extra 60 to 100 dollars a night in tips alone, not counting the wages. I even know one person, she worked near an amusement park here in Ohio, and an average friday night shift of 5 hours brought in about 250 in tips.

This is why the minimum for tipped employees is so low, but please, I still stand by the idea of TIP YOUR SERVER!

CNN: "The Senate has rejected a Republican bill to cut estate taxes and increase the federal minimum wage"

Guess it's a moot point now.

A few weeks ago they voted against a minimum wage and for a pay raise for themeselves

Congress should get paid minimum wage!

Accually, I think that any elected official should get paid the absolute minimum. Especially the President, who really doesn't have any bills if he doesn't want them. $12,000/yr isn't a lot, but it's even less when you have to buy your own gas, and food, and have to pay rent and other utilities. Okay, maybe not minimum, but they could at least have to pay thier own way!

I don't know either but however it goes I will abide by it, I care about my employees very much so they will be taken care of.