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Go ahead and raise the minimum wage. It will make me more money and I won't be losing my job. I'm sure that those that do lose their job to to cuts by employers won't mind either... Kinda heartless, but hey..
Raise it to $15/hour and I'll even go and apply at McD's because it would pay more then substitute teaching with much less stress.
Raise the minimum wage and you'll have Americans willing to work those jobs again. This is why there are so many illegals, there are few Americans willing to work those jobs. Raising the minimum wage will mitigate it. The problem is Americans are too unmotivated to work hard, physical labor for $8 or $9 an hour, or $10 an hour working at a dangerous food processing plant
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I disagree and live in areas where the food processors prefer illegals over us citizens.
Even after an ICE raid these citizens can't get jobs there..they go back to more illegals.
You fail to take into account that your salary will increase, too. A rising tide lifts all boats
LOL..I'm retired and what I make is my slush fund.
If anything a higher mandated min wage will get managers hiring folks who won't leave at the drop of a hat.
I disagree and live in areas where the food processors prefer illegals over us citizens.
Even after an ICE raid these citizens can't get jobs there..they go back to more illegals.
How do you know that employers there explicitly prefer illegals over Americans? Have you talked with the managers there? Somehow this sounds like a tall tale. The fact is, no matter what you think, more Americans do not prefer working jobs like that while having low pay. The "market" is demanding more pay, the employers are artificially denying that by employing illegals.
Raise it to $15/hour and I'll even go and apply at McD's because it would pay more then substitute teaching with much less stress.
YOU are increasing the cost of my Happy Meal and I am not going to stand for it... I just won't eat your crappy burger and you'll get laid off... But... I will still have my job, and will keep the raise I got from the increase in minimum wage...
The usual result of an increase of the Minimum Wage to, say, $10.00, is that all jobs that bring in less than $10.00/hr revenue (plus overhead etc.) to the company, are eliminated.
If somebody was bringing in $9.00/hr revenue to the company while his wages were $8, the company is happy to employ him.
If they have to pay him $10, then why should they pay for that job at all?
We seem to be suffering from an outbreak of "The-purpose-of-jobs-is-to-provide-workers-a-living" malady. It is most common among persons who don't have the responsibility of meeting a payroll. When sufficiently widespread, it results in company closures and mass layoffs, and should be ruthlessly rooted out wherever found.
Why shouldn't it provide a living wage? Do not most companies that employ middle class workers profit even though they pay much more then min wage? So why can't businesses that employ min wage workers make profits? Why do we let them off the hook that they can't pay more?
How do you know that employers there explicitly prefer illegals over Americans? Have you talked with the managers there? Somehow this sounds like a tall tale. The fact is, no matter what you think, more Americans do not prefer working jobs like that while having low pay. The "market" is demanding more pay, the employers are artificially denying that by employing illegals.
Yeah…ok. It's all made up.
The chicken processors only think they are hiring US citizens and have a preference for Mexicans.
The folks around here are all lying when they told me that none of them or their families work there anymore.
I beg to differ. Those with a HS diploma or GED that live rural WOULD work there if they could be hired.
Low pay ? Those working in the processing plants are making $10/hour.
Geeze you're so gullible to believe everything the MSM is feeding you.
Tyson was involved with smuggling illegals into the US to work in their plants.
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