Cross post from GDP re minimum wage.

[LAS14]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511827229

[Hoyt]

1. Heck, Medicare pays doctors less in rural areas, and more in urban.

I think Clinton's plan is more realistic, with a better chance to be enacted.

[DemonGoddess]

2. Exactly

Not all economies can sustain $15 an hour for the minimum.

[LAS14]

3. I made a major edit to the OP.

[LAS14]

4. I've agreed that I was wrong. Do you have thoughts about what Hillary would say?

Here's what I posted on the thread in GDP.

I would, however, like to know what Hillary might have said if Sanders had said exactly what I say below in one of the debates. Do we know? Mind you, I don't condemn her for good debate tactics. She said the truth. I just didn't "hear" the whole story.

As someone in this thread said, Sanders' and Clinton's positions are the same except for the amount of the proposed minimum. Sanders wants $15 and Clinton wants $12. What I wasn't realizing is that Sanders, like Clinton, would be very happy for the high cost areas to raise minimum wages higher.

This is an aha experience. I watched all of the debates, and if Sanders had once said just what I said above, it would have been clear. I should have figured it out, but partisanship dulls our hearing.

The fact remains that I support Clinton's position because I trust her and her advisors to have hit upon a minimum that is achievable in the near term. I trust her commitment to do the best possible thing. I'll leave it to Sanders to keep the long term in sight.