Just like every other year for the past fifteen years, members of Congress have voted to give themselves a pay raise. This time, it's a raise of about $4000. Cost of living has gone up, you know? So it only makes sense that the federal minimum wage has stayed the same at $5.15 since 1997 (eleven states and D.C. have voted to raise the state minimum wage above this level). Because surely the cost of living hasn't gone up at all for those living in poverty. They were poor already, right? Cost of living is cheap if you're poor since you've got nothing to spend. Those lucky duckies with their food stamps don't know how good they've got it. Do you know how much I owed in taxes last year? Far more than someone earning minimum wage, I can tell you that!

I had a kid in class one time say, "Yeah, but nobody actually earns minimum wage." Silly rabbit. He needed a handy dandy myth busting with regard to the minimum wage.