[davinic]

Because that's the system under which we live.

Healthcare should be provided to all by the government for free, but until then we must live under the system.

[scarface74]

So instead of complaining about a company should provide health benefits, complain about the government.

[dzamie]

Advocating an increased minimum wage is complaining about the government.

[scarface74]

Do you think that everyone deserves “a livable wage” - even my 17 year old son staying at home flipping pizza?

[behringer]

Yes. We're an immensely wealthy country

[scarface74]

Who should pay for it? The pizza shop owner with a net income of under $50K a year after working 70+ hours a week? Increase taxes on the household making an average of $70K a year so the government can subsidize his pay while he stays in a household making over twice the average household income?

Does the pizza owner also deserve an adequate return on investment to make his risk worthwhile or should he also work for minimum wage at a larger corporation?

[behringer]

Why should we tax the poor? No, we should tax the rich, ramp that tax rate up to 90 percent for the highest brackets, and stop putting half our taxes to military. We'd suddenly have so much money we wouldn't know what all to spend it on.