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Minimum wage of seven bucks an hour is basically a slave wage. It hasn't increased in years. I will admit that since they raised fast food worker's salaries here to 15 bucks an hour I can't afford fast food purchases anymore. But you have to remember I'm at the very bottom of the wage scale. I'm well under the poverty rate in this country. So of course I had to cut out fast food when they raised their wages. But most everybody else who still makes decent money can easily afford to go to McDonald's. It's time wages were normalized in this country. We are fast becoming a nation of the very rich and the very poor.

The min wage has been far too low for far too long and that is a source of a lot of our problems.

$15 an hour is now at least $5 too little.