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OP- By far the lowest min wage in the modern world. Great job, GOP and its dupes.
The USA is the only modern country in the world where full time workers live in poverty and have no health care (750k bankruptcies a year, most HAVE insurance - crap insurance!)After 30 years of Voodoo: worst min. wage, work conditions, illegal work safeguards, vacations, work week, college costs, rich/poor gap, upward social mobility, % homeless and in prison EVAH, and in the modern world!! And you complain about the victims? Are you an idiot or an A-hole?
Who is "we"?....If they all went to get better jobs, who would do theirs? It's nothing but an arrogant disregard for others to characterize anyone who works for minimum wage as a welfare leech. Thanks for reminding me why we need those laws and why I'll never vote Republican.
Yeah..In theory this may work. But you introduce the government as a full partner in the decision making process. I think it should go in the opposite direction. Government already has too much influence in the marketplace.What would work is to get rid of a one size fits all minimum wage. A schedule would be much better. A very low wage, untaxed, for those just entering or seniors leaving the workforce. Graduated increases depending on training, education and skill level.
TipsyCatLover, the legally mandated federal minimum wage rate is the rate the minimum rate applicable to the least qualified and least desirable job applicant.What would work is to get rid of a one size fits all minimum wage. A schedule would be much better. A very low wage, untaxed, for those just entering or seniors leaving the workforce. Graduated increases depending on training, education and skill level.
Ever since the liberals invented minimum wage laws the welfare leeches that couldn't get a free ride from the tax payers have depended on minimum wage laws. This makes the government force employers to overpay the lazy workers who would be sitting at home if they could. Instead of more of Obama's socialism by raising the minimum wage we should eliminate the minimum wage all together. This would bring prices down and let higher wage earners be able to afford a better lifestyle. It would raise profits and best of all it would motivate the lazy welfare leeches to go find better jobs that pay more if they want to survive. The liberals will boo hoo and cry for the poor but that is because most of them are the bums that are to lazy to go find a decent job and want to live off the hard working conservatives.
The Minimum Wage, Employment and Income Distribution
If they all went to get better jobs, who would do theirs? It's nothing but an arrogant disregard for others to characterize anyone who works for minimum wage as a welfare leech. Thanks for reminding me why we need those laws and why I'll never vote Republican.
You have fallen onto the liberal trap that stealing from hard working people and giving it to the lazy will help America. Why is this so hard for liberals to see are they really that stupid?
The federal minimum wage rate promotes automation. Both the minimum wage rate and automation have always been of net benefit to USA's economy. The minimum rate would have been of greater benefit if it had been annually cost-of-living adjusted.
The minimum wage rate is not among the major drivers of U.S. dollar's inflation, but it's certainly a victim of that inflation.
Respectfully, Supposn
Otto105, higher wage rates accelerate enterprises reducing net costs by replacing employees with machines. But automation has always been to our nation's net economic benefit.The federal minimum wage rate promotes automation. Both the minimum wage rate and automation have always been of net benefit to USA's economy. The minimum rate would have been of greater benefit if it had been annually cost-of-living adjusted.
The minimum wage rate is not among the major drivers of U.S. dollar's inflation, but it's certainly a victim of that inflation.
Respectfully, Supposn
The federal minimum wage doesn't effect automation. Businesses have been automating long before any federal minimum wage.
ScienceRocks, I'm an old man, but I believe our federal minimum wage rate's purchasing power will inevitably be increased and it will be annually cost-of-living adjusted within my lifetime.I think we should go up to 12 bucks per hour, but our main goals should be to close the loop holes on big corporations and rebuild our unions in order to get the money more spread out to the workers.
Blah blah blah, Unions do not help workers. Unions are BIG businesses. The time of unionism is past. Stop itI think we should go up to 12 bucks per hour, but our main goals should be to close the loop holes on big corporations and rebuild our unions in order to get the money more spread out to the workers.
The federal minimum wage rate promotes automation. Both the minimum wage rate and automation have always been of net economic benefit to USA's economy. The minimum rate would have been of greater benefit if it had been annually cost-of-living adjusted.
The minimum wage rate is not among the major drivers of U.S. dollar's inflation, but it's certainly a victim of that inflation.
Respectfully, Supposn
Katzndogz, the federal minimum wage rate is applicable to the least desirable job applicant for the least challenging job, in the USA labor market of the lowest pay scales for such jobs and applicants.Raise the minimum wage laws high enough and we will have unemployment high enough to break the economy. Maybe then it can be replaced by something more realistic such as minimum wage by category since everyone is not created equal.
