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What's the point of working if you can't support yourself without the help of government aide? If the Minimum Wage is lowered to the point that Americans have to depend MORE on government assistance, wouldn't that be counterproductive?
Think Americans!!!! Think!!!!
Lower minimum wage = fewer people get marred = lower government assistance because single childless adults get very little government assistance.
I think the free market should determine wage rates - however since the US is nothing close to a free market at this point due to statist, socialistic and facist / political-capitalism then minimum wage should be set and based on the factors, which include the MINIMUM things a person needs to survive and keep working for minimum wage. However in society now, minimum wage is way below what someone can actually work for and still survive so the rest is provided by the state through tax dollars (like section 8 housing, free medical care, food stamps, etc)
Section 8 housing is very hard to get, the vast majority of low income people can't even get on the waiting list.
Yes, but that doesn't mean I think employers should be able to pay employees "slave wages." However, I also don't think they should be required to pay "living wages."
That is fine just don't complain when people do not make enough to live on have to have help from the government
CHINO HILLS, Calif. – Residents of a Southern California suburb are protesting against a hilltop home that they say serves as a maternity center for Chinese mothers paying thousands of dollars to give birth to so-called "anchor babies."
Dozens picketed a Chino Hills intersection on Saturday, holding signs that read "No Birth Tourism" and "Not Here! Not in USA!"
The city's mayor tells the San Bernardino Sun that rooms in the house have been rented out to pregnant Chinese women until they give birth.
Protesters say they don't want to see a business in a residential area.
Kelly Good tells the Sun the come legally on tourist visas, but their intention is to give birth in the United States so their children would automatically gain citizenship. She said that's a "false pretense".
I agree with this position. Let the states decide and then it will quickly become evident if there is a connection between unemployment rate for low-skilled workers and minimum wage (I believe the evidence supports such a connection).
The system of Federalism was designed to leave most policy making decisions in the hands of the states. That way we could have 50 laboratories testing different solutions. The best ones would be adopted by other states and the bad ones would quickly be fogotten. People could also vote with their feet to leave states that had policies they didn't like. We really need to get back to that system of government.
States have an incentive to repel the poor; I do not trust any state to do the right thing. Poor people voting with their feet is merely exchanging one suckhole for another.
States have an incentive to repel the poor; I do not trust any state to do the right thing. Poor people voting with their feet is merely exchanging one suckhole for another.
you might say that states would have an incentive to end poverty, because they can't collect taxes from those who aren't working or producing.
states need those productive citizens to pay for the schools, to pay for the teachers, to pay for the roads , police, and infrastructure, etc.
we aren't getting anywhere with more "dependents", and less "workers".
do you see that some states are trying to fight the illegal immigration because they actually understand the cost ramifications of allowing all those people into their state? (and the federal government clearly does not, as they try to force states to bend to their will).
Wages should be set by supply and demand. The government has no business telling me what to pay an employee. Pay should be based on the importance of the job and the skill level of the employee. Nobody in our company makes any less than twice the minimum wage at this point.
Pretty much.... I have worked with near min wage jobs and it is rediculous people other then teens, and retirees have those jobs.
Actually I vote they get paid, $199k a year. Since they are not rich.
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