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THE MINIMUM WAGE WAS NOT MEANT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPORTING A FAMILY.
These are the flawed arguments many people make when they tell us the minimum wage at $7.25 an hour is just fine where it is.
Less than 6% of Americans work for minimum wage. So how is that a flawed argument?
The lowest paying jobs aren't meant to support a family. How is that a flawed statement?
The flawed argument is the notion that you can increase the lowest pay to some arbitrary number and think it's going to solve the problem. The problem is that there are too many people willing to work entry level jobs, and are content to stay there.
If the minimum wage is raised, there better be a motivation clause.
A minimum wage slug will still be a slug no matter how much they're paid.
When manufacturing jobs get offshored, this unemploys millions of individuals who must now go out and look for work, and oftentimes the only thing left is minimum wage jobs, thus making it more difficult for everyone to find work.
You increase minimum wage, cost of burgers, and lots of other things go up, which affects EVERYONE, so that $15 an hour you were making before, is now worth less because everythign costs more..
We dont live in fairy land, where the costs can just be made up by imagining money is there that isnt.
Tell you what. If you're willing to come to Las Vegas (who doesn't want to visit Vegas??) and sign a non-disclosure agreement, I'm willing to give you a tour of my office, show you our articles of incorporation which lists me as an owner and even buy you a beer. Let me know...
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Originally Posted by urbanlife78
I would love to have a tour of your "business" and any other "business" you cons claim to be all owners of. Or as I like to say, unemployed people pretending to be in business for themselves.
You know what they say about assumptions.
The fact that you suggest that "cons" are somehow pretending to be business owners says loads about your critical thinking skills. I happen to know swagger, and he runs quite a successful business that took he and his wife years to build from scratch.
The only thing that separates most of us (besides age and experience) is our political leanings. You have taken the premise of what makes us different to an entirely new level. Epic fail on your part.
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