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Exactly. If wages are too low, no one will apply for the job. If wages are too high, workers will compete with each other and only those with the best skills will get hired.
Not in the real world. We come from a history of servitude and slavery. You know it and still in some places there’s abuse. Ask the Dept of Labor.
Actually the min wage should be based on the local cost of living. Anyone working 40 hours a week should be able to afford the basic minimum - rent, food, etc. I think ultimately you saying that it's cheap to live in TX but that a $15 min wage would wreak havoc speaks to that. Because what min works in TX to live /survive doesn't work in other places.
Sorry, but a guy being paid to sweep sidewalks in San Francisco should not earn enough to live there. If so, why bother getting a harder job?
Sorry, but a guy being paid to sweep sidewalks in San Francisco should not earn enough to live there. If so, why bother getting a harder job?
There will always be a need for street-sweepers. It's a respectable job. What you're saying here is that you're perfectly fine with a population of people working a full day in a necessary job and still not being able to have their basic needs met, and that's contemptible.
Once again, this is in the expensive liberal states and cities. I don't deny that a $15 minimum wage is reasonable in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco and Washington DC. It makes NO SENSE in West Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Wyoming, or Idaho. Within states it can be an issue too, such as Florida's $15 minimum and Virginia's which make sense in Miami and Northern Virginia but not in Southwest Virginia or the Florida Panhandle.
Once again, let’s shoot for the bottom. Keep the poor, poor. Heaven forbid we improve their status at the cost of heir employers. More income into the hands of those who will spend it rather than those who will “””invest””” it.
Once again, let’s shoot for the bottom. Keep the poor, poor. Heaven forbid we improve their status at the cost of heir employers. More income into the hands of those who will spend it rather than those who will “””invest””” it.
I said the last time the minimum wage was zero, not when the federal minimum wage was established. Those are two different things.
How many states had a minimum wage during Civil War times? Answer none
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Originally Posted by TJLamb0518
But you knew that.
"the minimum wage system movement in the U.S. spread rapidly, resulting in the enactment of minimum wage laws in nine states in 1912 and 1913. Massachusetts passed the first minimum wage legislation in the United States on June 4, 1912, which was affected by the Lawrence textile strike."
Once again, let’s shoot for the bottom. Keep the poor, poor. Heaven forbid we improve their status at the cost of heir employers. More income into the hands of those who will spend it rather than those who will “””invest””” it.
Overwhelmingly the poor choose to be poor through bad decision making.
Lack of a 2 parent family is a huge influence on wealth and success. But, there are very few people on earth who are mentally or physically unable to help themselves. The welfare state, which encourages people to not work and to not stay together and raise their kids is the problem.
Speaking of bad decision making, you actually want government to make economic decisions when it has ruined the economy multiple times by trying to run it?
$15 is double $7.50. That means inflation was 10% not 2%. The remaining 8% came out of your pocket every year. That is why your purchasing power has gone away.
Yes and when you raise the minimum wage nationwide, you'll just increase the cost of living nationwide. The McDonald's worker in West Virginia might have their pay doubled, but then when they go to Taco Bell for food, the prices at Taco Bell have also doubled because all the Taco Bell employees also had their pay doubled. Sometimes liberals can't even comprehend the simplest concepts.
According to the poster, exploitation is when employees willing agree to work for a certain wage.
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