Minimum Vacation
Our favorite paycheck party proposal guarantees anyone who works 30 paid vacation days a year, plus holidays. Could save the travel industry in one fell swoop and reduce unemployment drastically.

Minimum Health Care
If 47 million people are working their rear ends off for bosses too cheap to buy them health care insurance, then why not pass a law making it illegal to not give it to them? No more deductions from your paycheck, either. Not in the paycheck party way of doing things!

Minimum Severance Pay
Severance pay is the money bosses get when they quit or get fired for doing an even crappier job than they usually do. It's time to give this great benefit to everyone else in the company, too. Not just the boss and his buddies, but all of us.

Minimum Pension Plan
Why privatize social security when it works fine just the way it is. Sure, it's not enough money to live on, but that's where a law requiring businesses to save money for when you are ready to retire for you is needed. And you keep it even if you quit or get fired, too.

The minimum wage is our index of the worth of the most worthless worker. A lot of workers who make just a tad more than minimum wage feel like $5.25 an hour is too much money to pay the bums they consider beneath them. But the more the worthless worker makes, the more the whole bottom third of the economic pyramid will make.

When you increase the baseline while maintaining free market competition between businesses, the middle class benefits and the bosses, for the first time in years, get squeezed.

The paycheck party idea is for raising the minimum wage until it becomes easier for a white collar middle-class worker to support his family flipping burgers at McDonalds, easing the new shiftless worker's passage from one good-paying job to another. One fifth of what the average CEO makes would be a good minimum wage for anyone over 25. If your boss can't afford it, he can do the work himself, the lazy bum.

Of all the paycheck party ideas, this is the one that most people have heard all the arguments against. They are all along the same crazy line: Bosses can't afford to pay these worthless idiots that much money, it would raise prices, the economy would collapse, blah blah blah. If you tie a minimum wage increase to cost of living increases for the rest of us - except the bosses, of course, they're not even in the paycheck party, so who cares about them? - then any increase in prices would be taken care of and the bosses would have to take big pay cuts in order to pay for us. That's the best part: sticking it to the rich bosses and all their buddies right where they live!

A lot of us make so much more than the minimum wage that we tend to not really pay much attention to the idea, since the minimum wage is only for the desperately poor people we don't even want to live around, much less think about or empathize with. But if you combine the idea of sticking it to the bosses with the idea that it would make even the easiest job worth showing up for, you might even see a few less poor people sitting around crabbing about how it's not worth the effort to show up for a job where you don't even make enough to live on.

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But don't even click on any of the links above
if you think it's getting pretty obvious that no matter who you think you are, you are just a person who gets up and goes to work every day and is tired of being ignored by your own elected officials. I hope you are starting to get the idea that 'divide and conquer' is the simple and effective strategy that the politicians and bosses have been using for years to keep us confused about what they should be doing for us.