eflatminor
Classical Liberal
- May 24, 2011
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Excuse me? Any wage increase that will actually pass will only get us back to an adjusted wage of sometime in the last decade at best.
You're still not address the question...the problem created by a minimum wage. Now why is that?
What their skills bear in a voluntary market. Stated differently, whatever they're willing to work for that someone is willing to pay. Next.
You need to understand that minimum wage was never meant to be what someone makes over the long term but with so many good jobs having been replaced with crappy service sector jobs there just is no wage increase for a lot of Americans unless someone makes McDonald's or Walmart do it, keeping the wage unchanged is a slow death spiral for the working class who are increasingly having to hold these formerly entry level jobs for years because of lack of opportunity.
Again, still not addressing the point. One last shot at it: Tell us how the unemployment rate among the young and uneducated is a "fantasy". Explain to us how you expect those that do not qualify for your minimum wage to earn a living.
I already answered the question, comrade asholovich,
No, you didn't. But the ad hominem attack surely isn't a sign of desperation or a failed retort...
if we raise the min wage to where it has the pitifully sad buying power of 2004 for instance, what is the difference?
Because the minimum wage in 2004 was every bit has harmful to the most vulnerable in our society as it is today. You know, the people your minimum wage keeps from working at all. How shamefully immoral of you.
It's the best anyone can hope for.
Wrong. A JOB is the best anyone can hope for when we're talking about the young, the elderly, the unskilled and the unintelligent. But I get it, fuck those people, right?
If those entry level jobs continue to be worked by single moms and retirees for years at a time how is a wage hike going to effect teenagers?
They're not getting job at all comrade. That's the problem. That's what your minimum wage does. It prevents the most vulnerable from working at all and forces them on the dole. Again, immoral.
We can assume the people working these jobs for more than a year are very well qualified for them and probably need a raise they will never get if people like you have any say in the matter.
The people that actually get minimum wage jobs may strive to advance beyond that level like anyone else. If they have the ability and the work ethic to earn more, they will. If not, they won't. That's how it works. But that's not the point and you know it. The point is the millions of our most vulnerable citizens whose skills simply do not qualify for the minimum wage. Your central planning is preventing them from working AT ALL and forcing them on the dole.
Shame on you for that.
I'm off to bed now. Should actually address the question, I'll respond. Otherwise, your just trolling and avoiding the real issue.
As a reminder: Tell us how the unemployment rate among the young and uneducated is a "fantasy". Explain to us how you expect those that do not qualify for your minimum wage to earn a living.