soapamine:geekandmisandry:pidgepitchu:strict-constitutionalist:constitutioncutie:Minimum wage: $7.25
soapamine:geekandmisandry:pidgepitchu:strict-constitutionalist:constitutioncutie:Minimum wage: $7.25$7.25 x 40 hour full time work week: $290$290 x 4 weeks per month: $1,160In every Southern state (didn’t have time to look at the rest of the country) you can find some sort of studio apartment for around $500 per month, sometimes less than that. Why bother lying about something so easily disproven? Because Bernie Sanders supporters aren’t going to fact check him, and they’ll ignore any contrary evidence that’s presented to them anyways.Things like this really tick me off and It’s not political or anything but it’s the fact that you think all that money is there. Here’s what I mean;That weekly check comes to, according to you, 290. Most places DO NOT pay for your half hour lunch that is required by law. So your beginning number was wrong. $7.25 x 7.5 hours a day x 5 days a week only gets you $271.88. Most people in America get paid bi-weekly, so let’s double it to get the budget. $543.75. That’s GROSS, not NET. Out of that comes anywhere between 10% and 15% taxes depending on state so we’ll low ball it at 10%. Automatically down to $489.38 a pay check. Now health insurance. Usually anywhere from 70-100 a pay check for the cheapest plans. Again, we’ll low ball and go $70. So now we have $419.39 a paycheck. x 2 = $839. Eight hundred thirty nine dollars. A MONTH.But again, you seem to think that’s fair. So let’s proceed. You say rent is $500? Okay. This person now has $339 left to buy groceries for the whole month, pay utilities, car payment, car insurance, and gas money to get to work. Those are the bare needs. You have to eat. You have to pay for heat, water, garbage removal, gas and or electricity because apartments do not always include things and rarely all of the above. Most cities in America do not have public transportation. Mine doesn’t despite the fact that our population is over 15,000 people, not counting a taxi. If you have a car, you have to pay that. If you have a car, legally you have to have car insurance. You have to pay that. You have to have gas in that car to get to work to make that money.Now if you can tell me you can get all of that out of $339 you’re lying.You are so focused on rent that you aren’t thinking about everything else people have to pay for. Rent was an example. This is a breakdown of the budget you gave me and it’s not possible to live off that in 2017 America. And BECAUSE this person makes over $800 a month, they probably won’t qualify for financial aid or food stamps. $800 is the line in my state where they won’t help you. No food stamps, financial aid, or government housing if you make more than $800 a month. Why does it bother you that people deserve to live above the poverty line?“Lol, Bernie supporters won’t fact check” you didn’t even check yourself.Also worth noting that almost all apartments require you to be making at least 3x the amount of rent, they Will Not rent to you without pay stubs substantiating that, usually anywhere between 2months and a year’s worth of pay stubs.Nearly all rental situations, at least in Florida which is where my experience is, also require first, last, and security up front. Security is often equal to one month rent or more, so good luck saving for that. Especially when you have to save for that once or twice a year or build debt when you can’t, because the landlord decides not to renew the lease, often because they’re raising the rent. They never give back the deposit either. Always with some bullshit excuse because all they have to do is tell you they had to spend that money in some way and they know you can’t afford a lawyer to fight it.Once lost a 1,400 dollar security deposit because they said they had to pay for lawn care to trim the massive existing tree outside of the property and pay, what the bill claimed was, a $900 cost to remove debris, and get this, the debris was the tree limbs -- source link