Equity Is Iniquity
The idle-rich stockholding parasites don't do any work either. They are the unemployed who create all the other unemployed.
The rock bottom cost of a Minimum wage should be no Cause for capital alarm among Good capitalists.
Egonomics
Their penny wise, pound foolish stinginess has nothing to do with profitable economics. The hollow Bossman zombies would rather feel strong by making others weak than make money.
The Poor can pay more in taxes and create more in demand with a higher minimum wage.
You know people like you truly show how grossly uninformed in this DAY of the Internet!
GEEZ....
FACTS FACTS FACTS!!!
OK... let's use your $15.00 figure raising all the people that work for minimum wage.
Q)
How many people do you think work at minimum wage?
A) In 2014, about 1.3 million U.S. workers age 16 and over earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Another 1.7 million had wages below the federal minimum. Together these workers make up 4 percent of all hourly paid workers.
What are the characteristics of minimum wage workers? - UC Davis Center for Poverty Research
FACTS
So let's raise ALL these 3 million people to $15.00/hour.
Remember there were 1.3 million already being paid $7.25! so the additional hourly pay is $7.75 per hour.
So these 1.3 million would get another $7.75/hour and work 2,080 hours per year or a total gross of $20,956,000,000.
Payroll taxes paid by both employer and employee: 12.4% or a total of $2.6 billion additional Federal tax revenue.
Now you do know that these 1.3 million don't pay Federal income taxes and will not on this additional $21 billion...
the ONLY tax revenue will be payroll taxes.
So now let's calculate the remain 1.7 million that are less than $7.25...
Let's assume that figure they currently get paid is $5.00/hr so then get $10.00 more...
1.7 million working 2,080 or additional $35.4 billion in gross wages and at 12.4% payroll taxes an additional $4.4 billion in payroll taxes.
So to answer your really ignorant comment:
"The Poor can pay more in taxes and create more in demand with a higher minimum wage
Just in additional payroll taxes the Federal government would get $7 billion a year...
Just enough to pay out 10% of the food stamps:
SNAP benefits cost $70.9 billion in fiscal year 2016
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Wikipedia
Oh and WOW... this additional $55 billion in GDP spending... buying new cars, clothes, homes, food, etc....
Wow! that will amount to really creating an additional DEMAND adding to the GDP a whopping: 2/10ths of 1% 0.25%... now that will make a BIG difference!!!
Idiots.
In reality... half of these minimum paying jobs are held by people under 25...entry level.
Guess what you idiots of how money works!
This is what those guys have to look forward to because of your stupid think that one size $15.00 wage fits all!
REMEMBER I"M NOT against a $15.00 wage key word....WHERE IT is appropriate ! But not a federal mandate. NOT practical.
SEE the latest hamburger flipper!!!
Here's The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job
A company called Momentum Machines has built a robot that could radically change the fast-food industry and have some line cooks looking for new jobs.
The company's robot can "slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible." The robot is "more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour." That's one burger every 10 seconds.
The next generation of the device will offer "custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground to order? No problem."
Read more:
Here's The Burger-Flipping Robot That Could Put Fast-Food Workers Out Of A Job
So like all idiots your ideas will cause people to LOSE their jobs! THANKS Again!