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Should it be mandated and, if so, how should it be determined?
OK, that sounds fair in the US, as long as they get dorms and meals too.Even China has a minimum wage. The highest is 142 dollars a month and the lowest 88 dollars a month, .
Should it be mandated and, if so, how should it be determined?
Even China has a minimum wage. The highest is 142 dollars a month and the lowest 88 dollars a month, depending on the province. The people working in factories live in dorms and their meals are scheduled.
This is why conservatives are so fond of moving jobs there. For all their talk about "rights", it's really all about the "money". For them, it's just fine if we become "China".
The difference is the government there mandates that minimum wage. At any time, that government could nationalize those factories and jobs. Conservatives are betting they won't, but communist regimes have a history of doing what they want. As soon as the leadership changes, who knows what will happen? Use the USSR's "central planning" or China's "Great Leap Forward" as examples of disastrous government mandate.
The government here, despite what conservatives want you to believe, is NOT some shadowy conspiracy of secret cabals who want to steal your guns and rights. OUR government is made up of our neighbors who we elect into office. OUR government is made up of other Americans.
Of course, some of those people are paid off and owned by large corporations. Look at some of the conservatives on USMB. Didn't one start a thread about how we should treat corporations like "royalty"? Do Americans really subscribe to "every man for himself"?
Minimum wage, a path to education. These are a "way out" of poverty. Conservatives simply haven't figured out that a thriving middle class brings much greater value to the country than seeing people as merely cheap factory "equipment". I guess it takes true patriots to see the value of a "strong America". So the minimum wage should be more than just barely survival. The answer is "it has to be enough".
Should it be mandated and, if so, how should it be determined?
Should it be mandated and, if so, how should it be determined?
Haven't we already had several threads on this?
Anyway, no, it should not be mandated. It should be determined by what the labor market pays.
Liberals think the choice is between jobs at $2/hr and jobs at $8/hr. It isn't. It is between jobs at $8/hr and unemployment.
Anyone remember back during the mid 2000's when the "minimum wage" was $9.50/hr because that's what pizza delivery places etc had to pay to attract people to work there? What's wrong with that system?
Should it be mandated and, if so, how should it be determined?
Haven't we already had several threads on this?
Anyway, no, it should not be mandated. It should be determined by what the labor market pays.
Didn't we try that in the past?
There you have it....Gotta keep up with them slimy Chicoms!Should it be mandated and, if so, how should it be determined?
Even China has a minimum wage. The highest is 142 dollars a month and the lowest 88 dollars a month, depending on the province. The people working in factories live in dorms and their meals are scheduled.
Yes...Because everybody at the bottom of the economic ladder is just dying to live in gubmint housing projects!OK, that sounds fair in the US, as long as they get dorms and meals too.Even China has a minimum wage. The highest is 142 dollars a month and the lowest 88 dollars a month, .
Yes...Because everybody at the bottom of the economic ladder is just dying to live in gubmint housing projects!
Yes...Because everybody at the bottom of the economic ladder is just dying to live in gubmint housing projects!OK, that sounds fair in the US, as long as they get dorms and meals too.Even China has a minimum wage. The highest is 142 dollars a month and the lowest 88 dollars a month, .
I live several places in Latin America. It is determined by the cost of a basket of "staples" at a grocery store.Beans, rice, diapers, meat, cleaning goods. Everyday necessity schtuffz.Should it be mandated and, if so, how should it be determined?
That's mighty white of you.Yes...Because everybody at the bottom of the economic ladder is just dying to live in gubmint housing projects!OK, that sounds fair in the US, as long as they get dorms and meals too.
actually that sounds exactly like a former growth industry in the US: the prison labor industrial complex.
3 years ago my position on minimum wages was that it should be $10/hour for adults. That would have done wonders for our nation and economy then.
But times have changed. This economy demands that Americans downscale their living standards and expectations. Minimum wage is off the table until we recover, or find a new plateau that is sustainable. Which may take 20 years.
That's mighty white of you.Yes...Because everybody at the bottom of the economic ladder is just dying to live in gubmint housing projects!
actually that sounds exactly like a former growth industry in the US: the prison labor industrial complex.
3 years ago my position on minimum wages was that it should be $10/hour for adults. That would have done wonders for our nation and economy then.
But times have changed. This economy demands that Americans downscale their living standards and expectations. Minimum wage is off the table until we recover, or find a new plateau that is sustainable. Which may take 20 years.