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The minimal wage should be replaced with a living wage. The living wage should be calculated based on what a single person would need to make in order to live on his own in his area without falling into poverty.
So we can pay a High School student something like $3.00 an hour? Or actually, nothing? They aren't going to fall into poverty as they are living at home.
The single woman would get $10 an hour but the woman with 6 kids doing to exact same job would get $20 an hour?
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Of course the living wage would vary by region. Married men should receive a living wage based on what he would need to make to support his wife and each child the married couple has. On top of this we should get rid of welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing, and all other forms of government assistance except for ones for the elderly and the disabled.
The police, firemen, teachers, those in the medical field and other "higher skilled" workers, etc should also recieve pay increases. I don't understand the facaination with having to work like a slave and still be struggling or this obsession with getting a "marketable skill". I also don't understand why it seems like some people want to make things difficult for people. Some people also do not want a career and are content with working at McDonald's. Some people just want a simple job that pays their bills. Why is that wrong or bad? Some of y'all act like customer service workers are dirt beneath the dirt. Not everyone can get another job or even a second or third job nor should they have to.
Then what you get is a never ending cycle. In 10 years the cashier is making $65 dollars an hour and still not in a better place. It is indeed up to the individual to better themselves, not society.
I don't think that burger flippers should make 15 bucks an hour. I think that companies will find ways to lay off people and not hire as many. Specially small mom and pop type companies. A lot of small businesses aren't making huge profits anyways, I mean for the most part and doubling their expense isn't going to help matters.
I also think that as was mentioned in the article that you have to have appropriate skills that are in demand. If someone could replace you with the most basic of training then that's sort of the way life goes.... common sense.
The grocery workers here tried to strike several yrs ago and they brought in crews literally overnight and the stores seemed to run just fine.
The grocery workers unions pretty much just screwed their own members by accepting a whole lot less and the new people coming in didn't get any of the negotiated benefits that longer employees got.
Which wasn't much as far as I heard.
All this being said I do find large corporate greed tiresome, I know just with my job it's always an intense pressure to do more and quicker.... I sometimes wish things would ease up a little in life.....
Well, if a business goes under because they cannot afford to pay their employees minimum wage, then that business was already destined to fail.
When YOU arbitrarily dictate the wage at an unjustified level how is it the business fault if they can't pay it?
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Again, if minimum wage causes your business to fail, then it was a failure of a business to begin with.
Again, when YOU arbitrarily dictate the wage at an unjustified level how is it the business fault if they can't pay it?
If a job brings in $10 / hour in value the employee can be paid minimum wage @ $7.50 / hour, if you force the business to now pay $15 how is it the business fault they can't pay the new artificial wage?
It may be unrealistic to more than double it to $15.
So how a half-way compromise? Raise the minimum wage to $10.75 an hour.
Too low? Who made that decision? Why not $150? Because that would be crazy?
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