Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "We Listen to the Pain of Americans, Not Billionaires | Bernie Sanders" video.

I am an American, Bernie is not listening to me. I just did my taxes and made $23,000 last year, Bernie is not listening to me. I guarantee you if I were to approach Bernie and ask him tough questions he will berate me like he berates rich people with his rhetoric.
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+Disentropic Because I will ask legit questions that will expose the flaws of his plans. Take the min. wage for example. I will ask this. "Mr. Sanders. You are pushing for a $15/hr min. wage which you call a "living wage". The immediate flaw of the min. wage law is that you are enforcing how much is paid per hour but not per week. So if someone is earning $15/hr, the "living wage", but only work 5 hours a week, is that enough income for them to live off of? They are earning a "living wage". Why don't you push for a law that removes that flaw such as abolishing wages and enforcing a "living salary"?
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+deana mccombs But Bernie is calling $15/hr a living wage despite if someone is working low hours. Also if he raises the min. wage to $15/hr and someone was working 15 hours at $7/hr but then gets their hours cut to 5 hours, are they better off? In Hartford, CT a woman at a doughnut shop got her hours cut from 35 hours a week to 27 hours a week then the min. wage went up. But the main point is that Bernie wants to enforce how much is paid per hour, not per week. How does that lift people out of poverty if businesses still control how many hours one works? This is similar to the question he avoided in Vegas when someone asked how does he prevent businesses from just raising prices.
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+Disentropic What if there is not another part time job available because there are others out there taking it? Or what if the hours are not there because businesses, in effort to save money, decide to close down their doors a couple hours earlier? The pure fact is that when broken down there is not one single good reason to even have a min. wage. The immediate flaw is that you are enforcing how much is paid per hour, not per week. And the problems just grow from there. Bernie has been challenged in the min. wage argument before and he could not come up with a response. The reason why is that in the end he can't even support his idea. You are right in that businesses won't will raise. They will, but first they will cut hours and employment. That has been seen. The min. wage does nothing to help society and does nothing but harm.
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+Nicky Tech Those jobs will stop if the price of labor becomes too high. It is basic economics. Small increases have done little beyond noise in the massive economy, but an over 100% increase as Bernie wants will.
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