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Recently California passed a $20 an hour minimum wage increase and Pizza Hut fired over 1200 drivers. these minimum wage laws are job killers and should be left to the employer to decide and let the market dictate the wages by competition.
Who gets paid minimum wage? I only once was paid minimum wage, and it was for a seasonal job I had when I just turned 15 on a farm. Heck, my second job working in fast food, paid more than minimum wage.
Socialist Democrats are really bad economists, because they do not realize (intentionally or not) the fallout of raising minimum wage and how it does not help the minimum wage class.
Should States/Government mandate the minimum wage?
Yes. The Federal government should mandate that legislatively-required "minimum wage" laws in the United States are illegal, in concurrence with the Supreme Court's 1923 decision "Adkins v. Children's Hospital".
In that decision, the USSC ruled that "minimum wage" legislation violated the right of employees and employers to freely contract with each other.
Then the (government-caused) Great Depression caused untold misery to the entire population. Whereupon FDR harangued the Supreme Court with repeated speeches and forced a key USSC justice to start changing his votes with the newly-invented belief that the "liberty" the govt was charged with protecting, now included the "freedom from fear" and "the freedom from want".
This new mandate on government, enabled it to regulate pretty much every facet of people's lives. And resulted in the decision in "West Coast Hotel v. Parrish" (1937), which reversed "Adkins" and declared that "minimum wage" legislation didn't violate the freedom to contract after all. "Parrish" was the first of a slew of leftist decisions that resulted in the huge explosion of government that has plagued the country ever since.
Are people that stupid that they need the government to protect them from working for $0 ?
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