 Americans took to the streets in large numbers on Thursday to show their support for a fifteen-dollar-an-hour wage for members of Congress. In major cities across the nation, fast-food workers and other service employees held signs, shouted chants, and gave impassioned speeches to demonstrate their conviction that Congress deserves a maximum hourly wage of fifteen dollars. Members of Congress are people, just like you and me, Tracy Klugian, a McDonalds employee who took part in the Washington protest, said. They should be paid what they deserve. Assuming that they continue to take off approximately two hundred and forty days a year, members of Congress earning the proposed maximum would see their average annual income adjusted from a hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars to thirteen thousand five hundred dollars, a salary that many marchers called fair and equitable. I know what members of Congress will say: I cant live on that, Harland Dorrinson, a protester in Chicago, said. Well, if they want to earn more, they should go out and acquire some skills. While organizers of the marches proclaimed todays protests a success, in some cities the demonstrations met some opposition from counter-protesters, who argued that fifteen dollars was too much. 