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How many people think that this would end well at all? Am I the only one that finds this appalling? That he could be so out of touch with the people who he represents?
What do people here that support this think would happen if it were to pass?
Well government doesnt create jobs, but laws like min.wage certainly reduce them, so good plan.
OK tell me exactly what you would think would occur. Seriously, tell me how you think this would make our country better. I want to understand the reasoning. Is it:
with a lower minimum wage employment would go up as the supply of labor would more closely correlate to the demand?
Ending the minimum wage would be like re-enacting Prohibition: We already tried it and it failed. People who think it's a good idea are living in a fanciful past.
How many people think that this would end well at all? Am I the only one that finds this appalling? That he could be so out of touch with the people who he represents?
What do people here that support this think would happen if it were to pass?
The federal minimum wage should be repealed. Congress does not have the constitutional authority to establish a minimum wage, a maximum wage, or wages of any kind. If States want to establish a minimum wage, they have that constitutional authority. Whereas the federal government does not.
Considering that all 50 States already have an established minimum wage, and most of those States are higher than the federal minimum wage, a repeal of the federal minimum wage will have absolutely no effect except to bring the federal government one tiny step closer to being in compliance with the US Constitution.
OK tell me exactly what you would think would occur. Seriously, tell me how you think this would make our country better. I want to understand the reasoning. Is it:
with a lower minimum wage employment would go up as the supply of labor would more closely correlate to the demand?
But all of those "employed" people would be on welfare and food stamps because they cannot subsist on $5 per hour jobs. And if you think employers would pay higher wages out of the goodness and generosity of their hearts, I disagree. Otherwise we would not be seeing companies sitting on piles of cash while their employees' wages stagnate.
During an age where corporations organize to protect their interests and bottom line, it is on proper that workers do the same. It was only 100 years ago where workers were living in tent cities and holes in the ground and owners were enforcing their way with armed gangs to protect the bottom line. It will be 100 years since the Ludlow Massacre.
Many of the neo-conservatives on this forum would like to go back to the days when Ludlow was possible.
He's right. The minimum wage law has eliminated a lot of jobs.
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