I'm currently looking for work and out of the hundreds of places I've been to/applied to, none pay less than 15. Wawa, Walmart, McDonald's, every major employer. Maybe you can find the one small business trying to pay less, but it's not an indicator of the market as a whole.

And minimum wage does nothing to stop wealth inequality. Until companies do not have an incentive to pass along prices to consumers or exploit the labor market, the only thing minimum wage does is increase inflation.

Fair but irrelevant. With the cost of NJ no one even hires at minimum wage anymore. No place can compete with the labor market at 15 an hour and even those are struggling to hire.

Combined with the fact that minimum wage today is further from a living wage than minimum wage 20 years ago was and minimum wage at 14 is a joke and more lip service.

I couldn't agree more, it's why I made this post. The idea of voting for a life long banker in the most expensive state in the country is like asking a shark to save you from drowning.

No, I'm saying 9/11 was Bush's fault because his vice president orchestrated it.

Edit: more seriously, if politicians aren't ready to fix problems that may have existed since before they got there, why vote for them?

It's literally an auto-preview Reddit creates based on the link I posted. Go yell at Reddit site engineers.

If you think Desantis is insane, you're kidding yourself. He's essentially the Tucker Carlson of actual politics. He understands what his base wants and uses it, but is completely different behind closed doors. He might be a manipulative asshole, but he's far from crazy.

Murphy is the exact same liar. He calls himself a progressive and capitalist in the same sentence, while quietly letting huge tax breaks go back into effect:

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2023/03/02/plan-to-let-tax-on-businesses-expire-draws-progressive-ire/#:~:text=Phil%20Murphy%20unveiled%20Tuesday%20would,year%20that%20begins%20July%201.

I'm even conflicted as to who is more dangerous...or maybe it's pointless to compare the danger between a wolf and a lion. Desantis clearly has a war on the marginalized, but Murphy is part of the ultra-wealthy that has been fighting a war against the middle class for decades. Both have increased misery in the country by untold amounts.

As mentioned in another comment, he supported the plan to develop Liberty State Park, which is certainly not good for lower income people. As I mentioned, he supported a recreational marijuana program that only allows big business in.

And I don't think voting for a Republican will do anything either. Both parties are bought and sold by big business, running us quicker and quicker into systemic collapse. This is more just a vent, until our country gets off this stupid two party system that are both the same party, we'll continue downward until we only have wealthy and broke.

Very true. If the redevelopment is done while he's in office, I bet he'll brag about all the "new jobs" it created, despite them all being sub-livable wages for the area.

I refuse to vote for any politician that talks about road widening before they discuss better train infrastructure.

And I'm glad you're getting it. But you're not making over 150k. No one making 150k needs rebates, they need budgets.

Absolute disgrace that people making over 150k a year are getting a $1000 rebate when we struggle to house and feed so many people in this state.

I can't believe they're investing money in multiple spinoffs. The last season had some pretty bad viewership ratings, seems like a risky choice.

There was a Rickle right around the corner from me until Home Depot moved in. Never saw a business kill a competitor so fast.

Guys post history is wild. You can literally see where he snaps, about 3 months ago, and goes from relatively dormant to spamming gun stuff.

Sure when you make up numbers everything makes sense. Go ahead and find me some place where you could order 20 burgers for $30 that's not the year 2000

Your comment makes no sense, a $100 order could be multiple bags with multiple drinks. How is that remotely the same as a $10 meal?

This is the biggest problem with tippers today. You see the only work as the drive, while the driver actually has to change things up, manage space, protect drinks, etc. a whole lot more with bigger orders.

Tip your driver like you would a waiter.

101.5 is absolute garbage...except on the weekends. All the talking idiots go home and they play a great selection of mostly classic rock. It's amazing how good they could be if they just fired the alt right Nazis they have employed during the week.

This number seems really low for Jersey. I know I don't hang in ultra conservative crowds, but I barely know anyone in the state that's pro-life.

No but I'd love to make it part of my job.

I'm on a long term road trip and I park/sleep in Walmart parking lots almost every night. Usually blow up their bathrooms in the morning too 😅

I've been to 45-60 Walmarts over the past 2 months and can safely say the Cherry Hill Walmart is one of the worst on the east coast.

How is COVID over when it's still killing 3x as many people as bad flu years? Just because the CDC puts businesses over health doesn't mean you should disrespect doctors that want to try to stay healthy.

Route 130 is my favorite, so many people are afraid to drive on the tight lanes that it's one of the few roads without major traffic in most parts.

GSP during the summer is by far my least favorite.

To answer your first point, good. You're obviously the type of person that would not be a good landlord. The tax works.

To your second point, I clearly used $1,000 as an example. So if your actual costs were $3,000, maybe $3,600 would be fair.

I'm going to stop responding because I get the real feeling that you're not interested in actually considering solutions to this crisis, but simply want to justify your own greedy thoughts. Take care friend.

See that's why we need massive taxes on massive profits. People will still provide a service for a fair profit, it will just keep people that are greedy out. This idea that business will dry up if people can't become insanely rich is a lie that doesn't play out in any other developed nation with sensible tax laws.

Simple, set a national tax on rental income over a certain percentage of rental cost. For example, if a rental property costs $1,000/month for mortgage/taxes/etc, allow landlords to charge up to $1,200/month with standard taxes. Anything above $1,200 is taxed at 90%.

It's the basic solution to most problems of wealth inequality in this country, except the rich own this country, so it won't happen.