Brain357
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Damned if I know how you arrived there.Why are they worth the same or more. They still have no marketable skill set. They have no great ideas and there's dozens if not hundreds of people willing to step into the job if you quit. Labor, like bananas costs what it does because of supply and demand. If there are warehouses full of bananas at the docks, you can't get 2 bucks a pound. If there are only 4 truck loads in Miami, you can get $5.I earned $1.10 and while I was there, got a min wage boost to $1.25What year were you earning min wage Ernie?
Further, you know we aren't doing away with food stamps. That's just not going to happen.
Never said do away with them. Just make people motivated.
So, 1963?
That's when the min wage went to $1.25 an hour.
Let's look at an inflation calculator.
CPI Inflation Calculator
In constant dollars you were making $9.59 an hour Ernie. Think about that for a second. Why are min wage earners worth less than they were in your time as a min wage earner?
Right now, there are warehouses full of cheap labor. If someone is willing to flip burgers for $6.15, why should I pay him $11.00.
If my business will allow $35/hour for labor, am I better off with 5 people or 3?
Your financial situation is irrelevant to mine. There is no benefit to my business to pay a higher price for a comodity of the same quality.
Now, if I hire someone at minimum wage and they don't work out, I need to select another candidate and bear the expense of hiring and training him.
If a candidate does work out, I'll increase his pay in order to retain him and avoid hiring and training someone else.
But, dammit, I'm not giving away my money because someone in Washington thinks I owe my employees more than they are worth.
So you like big governent? Cause if the employer doesn't pay enough it's the governent that takes care of them. I prefer small government.
I've repeatedly said that being poor should be uncomfortable and that hunger is a great motivator. What part of that implies larger government?
The reality of our country. If people aren't making enough money the government helps them, that is simply the reality. If you want smaller government then employers need to pay enough that employees aren't on welfare. If you want people making very little then that leads to bigger government.