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by pas 3475 days ago
Do people on min. wage have to pay taxes? And how much?

Also, what is the total income of those who work min. wage? (So what are the other sources of income, or the monetary equivalent of regular support they receive?)

It's also fine to pay just a security guard and rent a machine that can make burgers and pay the franchise mothership delivery service a tiny bit more to not just unload the cargo but to load it into the burgermachine.

Yes, we ought to pay people a fair wage. People should look after people a lot better than we do today.

And please do, show us that the majority of those making under 20K/year work somewhere where the company is making huge profits _and_ that the work they do is AI-hard.

And of course we're greedy, just look how many people are still clinging to concepts such as nation, fate, hard work and so on.

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I believe someone making minimum wage will get all of their Federal taxes back, so they could probably just claim 99 exemptions and never pay that money in the first place. I'm not sure about state taxes as that may well vary from place to place.