Let me explain a few things to the knuckle dragger's.
1.A living wage IS NOT minimum wage,
and it is paid by the employer, not the government. It is fair wage for any area or family size in America, and sets the lowest wage paid, not the highest. An employer can reward workers for more work.
This is all good but you are leaving out entree level employees who do not have to support families. If a worker takes a lower level position to get their foot in the door are you saying they should make enough to take care of a family?
A living wage gives a worker his living, and that after all is why we work. Other luxuries such as cars, etc. are above the living wage].
2.When you have a living wage workers can buy more from the market. That means more production. That means more workers being hired.
Can you explain this to me further? How does increasing a wage equate to more production? If your business is selling or providing your employees products or services how do you benefit by paying them more? Wouldn't that mean you were in essences paying yourself? Where is the profit coming from?
3.A living wage will reduce taxes. When workers come off social programs like unemployment and welfare, your taxes will go down on paying for social programs they were on, as the burden is spread around.
Would you not actually be increasing welfare? When you pay people more for a job you as the employer make less? You luxuries will decrease making you less motivated to continue. Now you will have to cut costs to maintain you standard of living. Where is the first place most employers cut? PAYROLL which will mean higher unemployment.
4.The new workers taxes will lower the amount of taxes you have to pay.
How do you have new workers? Is the government going to control business profit margins? Are they going to force big business to hire more people?
5.It is a myth to think that the cost of items will go up to cover living wages. Living wages are set according to the local area living expenses. With more items being sold, employers would have no reason to raise wages.
Several of you big businesses are not supported by the local economy but delivered outside of the area. By raising the cost of employing someone then you in effect raise the cost to manufacture, deliver or service your product. If you are a good business person you will have to raise the cost of your product of service to compensate of reduce you work force.
6.A living wage will stop two people working in a household, and let one worker spend a 40 hour work week for his employer, giving him more time with his family.
It will also decrease the work force.
7.Crime will go down as more moms stay home, and society has less latch key children to deal with. ie. less drug use, pregnancy, break ins & crime as parents monitor children.
This may very well happen in a perfect world.
8.Teenagers will not be in the workforce, rather home studying, hence raising America out of the low intellectual levels children face today.
The teenagers working are not a problem it is the ones staying home getting into trouble. We are the only nation who offers up higher education to everyone yet we still have all these problems.
9.Households that chose to have both spouses working or one spouse holding down two or more jobs, will be penalized with higher taxes, perhaps 75% on the additional jobs. This is to cover the costs of an unemployed person they are keeping from working and increased problems for society. ie. crime children, pregnancies, etc.
That would go over real well. Who should be the one to work? The male like in the good ol' days. That seems very conservative or the female? It looks like you are taking away years of women's lib here.
10.Workers can start employment with the basics they need to do the job in their area, shelter, food, clothes, utilities.
Wouldn't some utilities be consider a luxury? I know when studying science and health it was never mentioned as a basic need.
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WTF are you blathering about?
