Minimum wage be damned!

[Votto]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

 

[Pete7469]

On The Historically Racist Motivations Behind Minimum Wage

Thomas Sowell with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution gives an uncomfortable historical primer behind minimum wage laws:

“In 1925, a minimum-wage law was passed in the Canadian province of British Columbia, with the intent and effect of pricing Japanese immigrants out of jobs in the lumbering industry.

A Harvard professor of that era referred approvingly to Australia’s minimum wage law as a means to “protect the white Australian’s standard of living from the invidious competition of the colored races, particularly of the Chinese” who were willing to work for less.

In South Africa during the era of apartheid, white labor unions urged that a minimum-wage law be applied to all races, to keep black workers from taking jobs away from white unionized workers by working for less than the union pay scale.”

I'll tell you something else, the dumbfucks who can't get simple drive thru orders correct don't deserve whatever the minimum is now. When I can drive away from Burger King confident that what I bring home is what I ordered without having to stop a car length away to check the bag is when I'll go inside and ask the manager to raise the wages of the kid who got it right.

 

[shintao]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

 

[Muhammed]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

Society will be better if they get paid a living wage. Then they won't need welfare.

 

[shintao]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

I think we could end the minimum wage by passing a law that all workers wages be cut in half, so that the employer could hire one more nonworking person from welfare or unemployment. This will double the employer production and profits, while removing all welfare and unemployment people, and thus cut taxes to all workers. Businesses will flourish, labor will be cheaper for factory's, pretty much solve the labor problem.

 

[Sonny Clark]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

Wages are determined by demand. Back when there were good living wage jobs to be had on almost every street corner, employers paid to keep good employees rather than see them go to work for their competitors. The demand for good workers ensured fair wages. We once had good living wage jobs that covered all education and skill levels. We had plants and factories running 24/7 and still couldn't keep up with the demand for their products. That was the time when moms stayed home, raised the kids, and took care of the home, and dads went to work to provide for their families. Families did very well on one wage earner. This was back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. It was a time of manufacturing boom and prosperity for everyone.

Then, a lot changed in the late 60s and through the 70s. We lost many industries, and lost a large portion of other industries. We closed plants and factories, stop producing the majority of what we used and consumed, and became import dependent. We lost all or part of the textile, steel, electronics, tool, toy, furniture, housewares, appliances, auto parts, farm equipment, and other industries. We began importing most of what we used and consumed. Then, in the late 70s through today, automation, innovation, and technology began taking our jobs. So, between our unjust, unfair, and one-sided foreign trade agreements and policies, and technology, workers started out-numbering jobs, good living wage jobs.

And today, we have a rapidly growing population, a large pool of workers, and not enough good living wage jobs to meet the demand. This has created "an employers' market". In other words, employers no longer have to offer good wages and plenty of benefits to keep workers. Employers are now holding all of the aces in the game. Without minimum wage laws, employers would pay so little that it would basically be classified as slave labor, if I may use that term. We're the victims of innovation, automation, technology, and unjust, unfair, and one-sided foreign trade agreements and policies. Many skills are no longer handed down from one generation to the next. And a relatively small number of plants and factories are running 24/7.

As long as we continue to be import dependent, allow cheap foreign labor to produce what we use and consume, and continue signing economically damaging foreign trade agreements and policies, the employers win and the employees lose. To correct this, we need fair, equal, and balanced foreign trade agreements and policies, stop importing labor, stop off-shore out-sourcing labor, and stop illegal immigrant labor. We need to put America back to work, producing what America uses and consumes. Until we do, wages will remain out of balance, and workers will depend on minimum wage increases to advance. Basically, we've created a poor and dependent society, relying on government assistance programs and unemployment checks.

In addition, most wages are not living wages. A living wage is defined as one in which a worker can be self-supporting, without the need for assistance. In our present day economy, self-supporting means that "a person", "a worker", can pay for his/her shelter, food, clothing, transportation, and health care without the need for assistance. This will vary depending on where a worker lives. In other words, it cost more to live in New York City than it does to live in Jackson Mississippi.

QUESTIONS?

 

[gallantwarrior]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

Society will be better if they get paid a living wage. Then they won't need welfare.

\Define "living wage"? Living with parents? Living with wife and two children? Living with wife, four children, and one parent?

 

[shintao]

On The Historically Racist Motivations Behind Minimum Wage

Thomas Sowell with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution gives an uncomfortable historical primer behind minimum wage laws:

“In 1925, a minimum-wage law was passed in the Canadian province of British Columbia, with the intent and effect of pricing Japanese immigrants out of jobs in the lumbering industry.

A Harvard professor of that era referred approvingly to Australia’s minimum wage law as a means to “protect the white Australian’s standard of living from the invidious competition of the colored races, particularly of the Chinese” who were willing to work for less.

In South Africa during the era of apartheid, white labor unions urged that a minimum-wage law be applied to all races, to keep black workers from taking jobs away from white unionized workers by working for less than the union pay scale.”

I'll tell you something else, the dumbfucks who can't get simple drive thru orders correct don't deserve whatever the minimum is now. When I can drive away from Burger King confident that what I bring home is what I ordered without having to stop a car length away to check the bag is when I'll go inside and ask the manager to raise the wages of the kid who got it right.

lol, if there is no monetary incentive to get your order right, expect to get it wrong. Do you know why people work? They work to live. You can't live on a minimum wage. Some of those people are to tired from working three minimum wage jobs just to get by, they really don't care about your order. Then thousands of them are teenagers that conservatives want working ad you get what you pay for. Then thousands more are are old worn out seniors trying to supplement their shitty social security check so they can have meds they need. They need afternoon naps, and although they really care, they are forgetful, drop things, get confused and put it in the wrong bag.

 

[Sonny Clark]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

Society will be better if they get paid a living wage. Then they won't need welfare.

\Define "living wage"? Living with parents? Living with wife and two children? Living with wife, four children, and one parent?

A living wage is define as a wage that can support a worker without the need for that worker to require assistance. A living wage is one that can pay for shelter, food, clothing, transportation and health care without the need for assistance. A living wage will vary depending on where a worker lives. In other words, it cost more to live in New York City than it does to live in Jackson Mississippi. If " A " workers can pay for the necessities, without the need for assistance, then it's said that the worker is making a living wage.

QUESTIONS?

 

[Pete7469]

\Define "living wage"? Living with parents? Living with wife and two children? Living with wife, four children, and one parent?

According to bed wetting libturds a "living wage" would afford a fry cook a 4000 sq ft house and a lincoln navigator. If the dumbass managed to reproduce in spite of Darwin's theory a Smart Car and 6 months of annual sick leave is required.

 

[gallantwarrior]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

Society will be better if they get paid a living wage. Then they won't need welfare.

\Define "living wage"? Living with parents? Living with wife and two children? Living with wife, four children, and one parent?

A living wage is define as a wage that can support a worker without the need for that worker to require assistance. A living wage is one that can pay for shelter, food, clothing, transportation and health care without the need for assistance. A living wage will vary depending on where a worker lives. In other words, it cost more to live in New York City than it does to live in Jackson Mississippi. If " A " workers can pay for the necessities, without the need for assistance, then it's said that the workers is making a living wage.

QUESTIONS?

So "living wage" cannot be realistically dictated at the federal level since such a thing varies greatly from one place to another.

 

[Dovahkiin]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

We do indeed need more people working, if people weren't so afraid of deficits, we could provide everyone who wants to work a job tommorow. Various JG ideas..
Anyways, we are a free people, not sure how "freedom" ties to the minimum wage.
1.) This is not an argument against the minimum wage considering many working at or near the minimum wage, many of these people, are mothers, students needing to pay off debt..
2.) A minimum wage cannot be shown to have greater negative affects then positive effects at the macro level. We've increased it multiple times and the economy has never collapsed. Businesses continue to thrive. A minimum wage is needed to ensure demand doesn't collapse. (A removal of the MW only makes sense when unions are strong.)
3.) Government subsidizing workers making pitiful wages? Nah, I prefer a job guarantee to "transition" to the private sector. Increase competition and get rid of the "laziness" argument.
4.) Working is indeed good, it's a shame people have bought into the NAIRU nonsense.

 

[shintao]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

Society will be better if they get paid a living wage. Then they won't need welfare.

\Define "living wage"? Living with parents? Living with wife and two children? Living with wife, four children, and one parent?

All of those are living wage defined.

 

[Sonny Clark]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

Society will be better if they get paid a living wage. Then they won't need welfare.

\Define "living wage"? Living with parents? Living with wife and two children? Living with wife, four children, and one parent?

A living wage is define as a wage that can support a worker without the need for that worker to require assistance. A living wage is one that can pay for shelter, food, clothing, transportation and health care without the need for assistance. A living wage will vary depending on where a worker lives. In other words, it cost more to live in New York City than it does to live in Jackson Mississippi. If " A " workers can pay for the necessities, without the need for assistance, then it's said that the workers is making a living wage.

QUESTIONS?

So "living wage" cannot be realistically dictated at the federal level since such a thing varies greatly from one place to another.

I'm not sure whether or not the government can vary the minimum wage according to the location of the worker. I'd have to research that. But, to my knowledge, it's never been done.

 

[Preacher]

I read this garbage spewed from the teapers mouths in threads like these and just shake my head and say thank goodness they aren't running the country and things are moving towards a higher min wage.

 

[shintao]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

Society will be better if they get paid a living wage. Then they won't need welfare.

\Define "living wage"? Living with parents? Living with wife and two children? Living with wife, four children, and one parent?

A living wage is define as a wage that can support a worker without the need for that worker to require assistance. A living wage is one that can pay for shelter, food, clothing, transportation and health care without the need for assistance. A living wage will vary depending on where a worker lives. In other words, it cost more to live in New York City than it does to live in Jackson Mississippi. If " A " workers can pay for the necessities, without the need for assistance, then it's said that the workers is making a living wage.

QUESTIONS?

So "living wage" cannot be realistically dictated at the federal level since such a thing varies greatly from one place to another.

Yes it can. Computers can do it, they do it for teacher wages, etc.

 

[gallantwarrior]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

Society will be better if they get paid a living wage. Then they won't need welfare.

\Define "living wage"? Living with parents? Living with wife and two children? Living with wife, four children, and one parent?

All of those are living wage defined.

Really? For which demographic? Flint, MI, or SanFran, CA, or Omiguk, AK?

 

[gallantwarrior]

I never understood the minimum wage.

Don't we want people working? And if they are working, does anyone have a gun to their heads to force them to work? Are we a free people or are we not?

1. No one should assume that a person must survive alone while working below a minimum wage. Some may live at home with their parents, some may be retired, etc. devoid of a mortgage payment and maybe a car payment. In fact, some may pocket more money working below a minimum wage than those who make a minimum wage for those very reasons.

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage. The US has a massive national debt that needs to be paid. Those taxes need to stay in the US or you can eventually kiss goodbye the nanny state altogether at some point.

3. If working below the minimum wage is so terrible, then why not have government subsidize them for the income they need to reach minimum wage? Would it not be cheaper than paying their full salary via entitlements?

4. Working is good for the soul. Discipline, responsibility, and other such attributes are learned through working. Is society better with them not working and just collecting welfare?

Society will be better if they get paid a living wage. Then they won't need welfare.

\Define "living wage"? Living with parents? Living with wife and two children? Living with wife, four children, and one parent?

A living wage is define as a wage that can support a worker without the need for that worker to require assistance. A living wage is one that can pay for shelter, food, clothing, transportation and health care without the need for assistance. A living wage will vary depending on where a worker lives. In other words, it cost more to live in New York City than it does to live in Jackson Mississippi. If " A " workers can pay for the necessities, without the need for assistance, then it's said that the workers is making a living wage.

QUESTIONS?

So "living wage" cannot be realistically dictated at the federal level since such a thing varies greatly from one place to another.

Yes it can. Computers can do it, they do it for teacher wages, etc.

Teachers' wages, hummmm? How about those Burger King workers? Got them down, have you?

 

[Muhammed]

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage.

The way to stop stop companies from going overseas is very simple. Massive tariffs.

For instance, if an air conditioner company wants to relocate to Mexico, slap a large tariff on air conditioners from Mexico. They will change their mind about relocating if they can't sell their product in the USA.

 

[gallantwarrior]

2. Having a minimum wage will restrict jobs and businesses. If the US does not want companies going over seas and taking their tax money with them in order to pursue cheap labor, then they need to abolish the minimum wage.

The way to stop stop companies from going overseas is very simple. Massive tariffs.

For instance, if an air conditioner company wants to relocate to Mexico, slap a large tariff on air conditioners from Mexico. They will change their mind about relocating if they can't sell their product in the USA.

NAFTA. Won't work, amigo.