Thread by @JohnFetterman

$15 hr is $31,000 a year of 2,000 hours of hard, often unglamorous work.

Day in, day out.

These people making $174,000 a year won’t cede this most meager baseline.

Though I have a MBA, I don’t need an advanced degree to know how utterly shitty that is

politico.com/news/2021/03/0…

These are the *same* people who argued against the weekend

Days off??!! What?! It will crash the economy. What will our small businesses do??

Question: Why do low wage workers need to pull themselves up by bootstraps and the businesses that have their payroll subsidized by our government don’t?

Because make no mistake: every penny a business pays below a minimum living wage is a penny YOU AS TAXPAYERS cough up for things like food, shelter, healthcare, childcare.

That’s math 🧮

“I remember my 1st job and how it helped teach me the value of a dollar”

Seat belts?!!? Do you want to put our auto companies out of business?!??

Expiration dates on food?!?? Is this the kind of nanny state dystopia you want your kids to grow up in?!??

One of life’s greatest, enduring mysteries is the generation after generation group of people who-despite all evidence to contrary- fight tooth and nail to proudly stand for and on the wrong side of history.

The kind that distinguish themselves today by denying a wedding cake to a gay couple because that’s what Jesus would want them to do.

And have zero issue with a single parent toiling in perpetual twilight for $7.50 hr because they worked at DQ for $2.65 hr in 1978 at 16.

Google shows the average apartment in the US is almost $1,500 a month.

Senators blocking $15 hr, earning $174,000 a year, can afford that easy.

Our current minimum wage of $7.25 hr is $1,200 a month.

That’s some shitty math