Tumblr User's Livable Wage Comment Gets Disproved

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mattstaff
Jan 26, 2020 9:00 AM EST

Nothing melts our icy hearts like a fact checker getting fact checked themselves. When it comes to online squabbles, people have a tendency to approach the situations like bulls in a china shop, and often throw out all kinds of BS, cause they feel that overwhelming desire to be the most right person in the room. And sometimes that BS is misleading information they haven't even bothered to verify before trying to pass it off as the ultimate truth. 

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    Text - There's no state where a full-time minimum wage worker can afford a one-bedroom apartment at the fair market rent. That's unacceptable. 4/10/17, 3:51 PM 5,379 RETWEETS 14.2K LIKES
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    Text - constitutioncutie Minimum wage: $7.25 $7.25 x 40 hour full time work week: $290 $290 x 4 weeks per month: $1,160 In 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? strict-constitutionalist Because Bernie Sanders supporters aren't going to fact check him, and they'll ignore any contrary evidence that's presented to
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    Text - pidgepitchu 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
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    Text - 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 th
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    Text - geekandmisandry "Lol, Bernie supporters won't fact check" you didn't even check yourself. bloodnikki This post was like that episode of American Dad. You can live off x amount if you understood how money works and than they bombed hard because they couldn't last three days. Source: millennial-review 309,601 notes
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