Should The Government Raise The Minimum Wage?

[HereWeGoAgain]

Can you support yourself in today's economy on the current minimum wage? And if you can, you barely get by. I've read the studies and ramifications. And sure the big boys upstairs would feel it in their checkbooks for a short while, but the long run would see great promise. So, how do you think, should the government raise the minimum wage?

No raise for you!! Get back to the fry-olator and shut your pie hole or I'll hire a wetback to replace your dumbass.

 

[kaz]

Can you support yourself in today's economy on the current minimum wage? And if you can, you barely get by. I've read the studies and ramifications. And sure the big boys upstairs would feel it in their checkbooks for a short while, but the long run would see great promise. So, how do you think, should the government raise the minimum wage?

How much money should workers need to be worth before you allow them to have a job?

 

[David_42]

No, they wouldn't. Maybe in some areas with high costs of living.

If the minimum wage increases, the cost of living will go up.

Then again, I know managers at restaurants relying on food stamps.. Wages haven't been rising..

Why are they settling for low wages?

Bullshit buddy, the cost of living argument has been used against every MW increase proposal.. The cost of living goes up either way.

 

[kaz]

Okay.... So here is a hypothetical for you libtards out there....

Why not raise the minimum wage to $100 hr.?

Surely, no matter where you live or what you do for a living, this should be more than a living wage to please anyone, I would think. Imagine all the "buying power" it would create overnight? You could all pay off those student loans in no time!

Weve asked thsi question over and over. If 15/hr is good, why not 20? Why not 30? Why not 100? The answer is always the same: 30/hr is too much. No defense. no ability to say why. No reasoning on why 15/hr is just right but 9/hr is too little.
Dont expect deep thought from liberals. You might as well expect pigs to cha-cha.

Think about how great the economy would be if everyone earned $100 an hour!

 

[Boss]

Okay.... So here is a hypothetical for you libtards out there....

Why not raise the minimum wage to $100 hr.?

Surely, no matter where you live or what you do for a living, this should be more than a living wage to please anyone, I would think. Imagine all the "buying power" it would create overnight? You could all pay off those student loans in no time!

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No one is obligated to answer a question at that level of monumental stupidity about minimum wage.

Why not? Don't you want to solve poverty?

Your entire argument is juvenile, the minimum wage is meant to ensure a basic standard of living for working people, no one wants to raise it to such an unreasonable Amount, however, it does need to keep up with the cost of living.

What's unreasonable about $100 hr.? Why is that unreasonable? Stop pretending it is juvenile and answer my questions. What is a basic standard of living? Is it the same for a high school kid living at home as it is for a single mother of three? We've had the minimum wage for 82 years and it doesn't seem to be able to keep up with the cost of living. Maybe if we raise it to $100 hr. that won't be a problem, right? I would think $100 hr. could meet the cost of living for just about everyone, don't you agree?

 

[kaz]

Yes, 10.10 is a good start.

You mean because employer will pay someone worth $7 an hour $10, we wouldn't find a worker worth $10 if we have to pay that.

You are extremely naive. Basic logic tells you that the minimum wage would never work. All you do is deny any job to the people who need it the most.

It's the inevitable result of someone, you, being generous with someone else's money

 

[David_42]

Okay.... So here is a hypothetical for you libtards out there....

Why not raise the minimum wage to $100 hr.?

Surely, no matter where you live or what you do for a living, this should be more than a living wage to please anyone, I would think. Imagine all the "buying power" it would create overnight? You could all pay off those student loans in no time!

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No one is obligated to answer a question at that level of monumental stupidity about minimum wage.

Why not? Don't you want to solve poverty?

Your entire argument is juvenile, the minimum wage is meant to ensure a basic standard of living for working people, no one wants to raise it to such an unreasonable Amount, however, it does need to keep up with the cost of living.

What's unreasonable about $100 hr.? Why is that unreasonable? Stop pretending it is juvenile and answer my questions. What is a basic standard of living? Is it the same for a high school kid living at home as it is for a single mother of three? We've had the minimum wage for 82 years and it doesn't seem to be able to keep up with the cost of living. Maybe if we raise it to $100 hr. that won't be a problem, right? I would think $100 hr. could meet the cost of living for just about everyone, don't you agree?

Because that's a wage way out of whack to anyone who understands basic economics? You clearly don't. A standard of living is enough to afford an apartment without it taking more then 40% of your income, not having to rely on food stamps..

 

[David_42]

Yes, 10.10 is a good start.

You mean because employer will pay someone worth $7 an hour $10, we wouldn't find a worker worth $10 if we have to pay that.

You are extremely naive. Basic logic tells you that the minimum wage would never work. All you do is deny any job to the people who need it the most.

It's the inevitable result of someone, you, being generous with someone else's money

And those same people "worth" $7 were worth 2 dollars at one point.. Should we have never raised the minimum wage when the cost of living spiraled?

 

[SwimExpert]

Bullshit buddy, the cost of living argument has been used against every MW increase proposal.. The cost of living goes up either way.

So....you believe the evil, greedy, corrupt rich guys at the top of the corporate ladder are simply going to volunteer to take the increase out of their own paychecks?

 

[Auld Phart]

Okay.... So here is a hypothetical for you libtards out there....

Why not raise the minimum wage to $100 hr.?

Surely, no matter where you live or what you do for a living, this should be more than a living wage to please anyone, I would think. Imagine all the "buying power" it would create overnight? You could all pay off those student loans in no time!

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No one is obligated to answer a question at that level of monumental stupidity about minimum wage.

Why not? Don't you want to solve poverty?

Your entire argument is juvenile, the minimum wage is meant to ensure a basic standard of living for working people, no one wants to raise it to such an unreasonable Amount, however, it does need to keep up with the cost of living.

What's unreasonable about $100 hr.? Why is that unreasonable? Stop pretending it is juvenile and answer my questions. What is a basic standard of living? Is it the same for a high school kid living at home as it is for a single mother of three? We've had the minimum wage for 82 years and it doesn't seem to be able to keep up with the cost of living. Maybe if we raise it to $100 hr. that won't be a problem, right? I would think $100 hr. could meet the cost of living for just about everyone, don't you agree?

Because that's a wage way out of whack to anyone who understands basic economics? You clearly don't. A standard of living is enough to afford an apartment without it taking more then 40% of your income, not having to rely on food stamps..

A standard of living is enough to afford an apartment without it taking more then 40% of your income, not having to rely on food stamps..

That makes high school and college students exempt, right?

They dont' need to pay for apartments, unless they want to live away from mom and dad, of off campus.

and those are the people that should be working min wage jobs.

If you are out of school, graduated college, you should have a skill that would make you worth MORE than min wage.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Well, why not. It seems many of you can't figure out to LIVE your life without them. Just remember: once you rely on "the Masters in guberment" to start FORCING thing on others that. they can give it and they can also: TAKE it away. what a life in what used to be a free country and people

hell they just jailed a woman for not handing out papers.

The problem is the govt is there whether people have minimum wage or not. Minimum wage would help take people OFF welfare.

No it won't... the majority of people affected by MW are ages 16 - 24. It's a bullshit argument for suckers.

 

[David_42]

Well, why not. It seems many of you can't figure out to LIVE your life without them. Just remember: once you rely on "the Masters in guberment" to start FORCING thing on others that. they can give it and they can also: TAKE it away. what a life in what used to be a free country and people

hell they just jailed a woman for not handing out papers.

The problem is the govt is there whether people have minimum wage or not. Minimum wage would help take people OFF welfare.

No it won't... the majority of people affected by MW are ages 16 - 24. It's a bullshit argument for suckers.

Pulling that lie again?
Low-wage Workers Are Older Than You Think: 88 Percent of Workers Who Would Benefit From a Higher Minimum Wage Are Older Than 20, One Third Are Over 40

 

[The Rabbi]

If minimum wage were increased then Walmart employees wouldn't need to be on welfare.

Yes they would.

No, they wouldn't. Maybe in some areas with high costs of living.. Then again, I know managers at restaurants relying on food stamps.. Wages haven't been rising..

As usual you are factually wrong.
WalMart raised wages recently. And then last week announced they were cutting hours because higher wage costs were hurting profitability.
Artificially raising wages ends up hurting the very people it supposedly was helping.

 

[David_42]

Bullshit buddy, the cost of living argument has been used against every MW increase proposal.. The cost of living goes up either way.

So....you believe the evil, greedy, corrupt rich guys at the top of the corporate ladder are simply going to volunteer to take the increase out of their own paychecks?

What are you on about now? When the minimum wage was initially started, people argued raising it would increase the cost of living, surprise surprise, it went up either way.

 

[Derideo_Te]

Well, why not. It seems many of you can't figure out to LIVE your life without them. Just remember: once you rely on "the Masters in guberment" to start FORCING thing on others that. they can give it and they can also: TAKE it away. what a life in what used to be a free country and people

hell they just jailed a woman for not handing out papers.

The problem is the govt is there whether people have minimum wage or not. Minimum wage would help take people OFF welfare.

No it won't... the majority of people affected by MW are ages 16 - 24. It's a bullshit argument for suckers.

Half of the people earning MW are older than 24.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/cps/characteristics-of-minimum-wage-workers-2014.pdf

 

[SwimExpert]

Bullshit buddy, the cost of living argument has been used against every MW increase proposal.. The cost of living goes up either way.

So....you believe the evil, greedy, corrupt rich guys at the top of the corporate ladder are simply going to volunteer to take the increase out of their own paychecks?

What are you on about now? When the minimum wage was initially started, people argued raising it would increase the cost of living, surprise surprise, it went up either way.

You didn't answer the question.

 

[David_42]

If minimum wage were increased then Walmart employees wouldn't need to be on welfare.

Yes they would.

No, they wouldn't. Maybe in some areas with high costs of living.. Then again, I know managers at restaurants relying on food stamps.. Wages haven't been rising..

As usual you are factually wrong.
WalMart raised wages recently. And then last week announced they were cutting hours because higher wage costs were hurting profitability.
Artificially raising wages ends up hurting the very people it supposedly was helping.

Yeah, to what, 9$? Companies would never raise wages if your argument had bearing.

 

[David_42]

Bullshit buddy, the cost of living argument has been used against every MW increase proposal.. The cost of living goes up either way.

So....you believe the evil, greedy, corrupt rich guys at the top of the corporate ladder are simply going to volunteer to take the increase out of their own paychecks?

What are you on about now? When the minimum wage was initially started, people argued raising it would increase the cost of living, surprise surprise, it went up either way.

You didn't answer the question.

They wouldn't even have to take it out of their bonuses..

 

[koshergrl]

We could support ourselves just fine on low wage jobs if we didn't have to give a ridiculous portion of it to assholes who refuse to work in the form of welfare, unemployment, medical, etc.

 

[David_42]

We could support ourselves just fine on low wage jobs if we didn't have to give a ridiculous portion of it to assholes who refuse to work in the form of welfare, unemployment, medical, etc.

What the hell? A lot of welfare goes to working people on these low wage jobs.