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I oppose a federal minimum wage but I think that very local areas can and sometimes should allow for a minimum wage, depending on the cost of living and business environment in that particular area. This should be a local community, democratic issue.
There is only one way I would be in support of getting rid of a federal minimum wage, that would be to require every state to set their own minimum wage. I am betting the moment you make it so every state must state what their minimum wage should be without relying on the federal government to be the bad guy, we would see many conservatives start singing a different tune when people in their state don't like the idea of minimum wage being set at a couple dollars an hour.
just like when you go to australia a big mac costs almost exactly the same yet australia has the us equivalent of a $15 per hour minimum wage. Funny how the prices remain the same despite the right wing talking points, huh?
I also live in Idaho and visit Seattle often and your full of it when you say "you dont notice much difference in prices".
If you don't agree, then cough up some examples so we can compare.
Because from where I'm looking at it, a $5 sandwich at a Subway in Seattle is the same price as a $5 sandwich at a Subway in Boise. Where's my sandwich discount for living in a state where the workers get paid $2 an hour less?
What is more important paying good teacher more than 15 an hour or paying a fast food worker 15 dollars an hour?
The key word there is "good teacher".
Demand should determine what someone gets paid in the private sector.
In the public sector it should be based on what the tax burden can support.
Do you think entertainers should get 15 dollars an hour or 15M?
Because from where I'm looking at it, a $5 sandwich at a Subway in Seattle is the same price as a $5 sandwich at a Subway in Boise. Where's my sandwich discount for living in a state where the workers get paid $2 an hour less?
The business owner is ALWAYS in the position of power......employees have no investment.
If things get that bad....they go out of business......just like businesses do everyday now.
And no business owner ever abuses their position of power at the expense of their employees because they're all just as pure as the driven snow and the workers should all just bend over, right?
You ever going to go back and give some real answers to the questions I asked previously? Or are you just going to continue to ignore and deflect?
no, removing the minimum wage wouldnt drive wages down to the bottom. To make that argument we'd have to have a vast number of americans living on it, which we dont.
There are a lot of areas where minimum wage or near minimum wage jobs constitute the majority of employment opportunities. Especially in smaller communities where the economy is dependent on a single large employer, with lots of low-wage satellite businesses that provide services to that employer or its employees.
And yet it's amazing how many people working in these communities are duped into cutting their own throats.
I pay less in housing here because the property values are lower. Do you really think people making minimum wage are buying property?
And that is why your wages are lower too. Do you think someone in San Jose making 10.00 an hour
has as much buying power as you do. No, they do not.
Plenty of folks were buying houses with no doc loans during the last housing bubble.
And I suspect CA will get hit with another. But since they are a non judicial foreclosure state
folks can afford to walk from or flip homes till the cows come home...
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