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[–] 12 points 3 months ago

Minimum wage has long fallen into the poverty zone in the US. As the saying goes, everything is expensive when you're poor. And sales tax doesn't help one bit. It's a 'flat' tax meaning it doesn't scale with income; a poor person and a billionaire pay the same sales tax for an identical purchase.

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