Time to get rid of the federal minimum wage?

[Polishprince]

I'd say so. States have largely established their own minimums, based on their own politics and circumstances.

The current minimum is just about a dead letter, as few earn at that level in 2025.

Closing up the Wage and Hour Division would free 1,700 people to do something else. Maybe work in the fields to replace the illegals being deported, just thinking?

State Minimum Wages

This chart shows state minimum wage rates in effect as of Jan. 1, 2021, as well as future enacted increases.

www.ncsl.org

 

[progressive hunter]

I'd say so. States have largely established their own minimums, based on their own politics and circumstances.

The current minimum is just about a dead letter, as few earn at that level in 2025.

Closing up the Wage and Hour Division would free 1,700 people to do something else. Maybe work in the fields to replace the illegals being deported, just thinking?

State Minimum Wages

This chart shows state minimum wage rates in effect as of Jan. 1, 2021, as well as future enacted increases.

www.ncsl.org

get rid of the state ones too,,

they prevent to low skilled and dullards from working,,

 

[Dogmaphobe]

get rid of the state ones too,,

they prevent to low skilled and dullards from working,,

There will always be plenty of jobs available for the low skilled and dullards to work at a DNC troll farm.

 

[progressive hunter]

There will always be plenty of jobs available for the low skilled and dullards to work at a DNC troll farm.

I see what you did there,,

 

[DGS49]

There is NOTHING in the Constitution that gives Congress the power to regulate wages, minimum or maximum. The power has been inferred from the words, "The Congress shall have the power...To regulate commerce...among the several states..."

How, exactly, does that imply the power to establish a minimum wage? In short, it does not.

 

[Woodznutz]

I'd say so. States have largely established their own minimums, based on their own politics and circumstances.

The current minimum is just about a dead letter, as few earn at that level in 2025.

Closing up the Wage and Hour Division would free 1,700 people to do something else. Maybe work in the fields to replace the illegals being deported, just thinking?

State Minimum Wages

This chart shows state minimum wage rates in effect as of Jan. 1, 2021, as well as future enacted increases.

www.ncsl.org

There needs to be a Federal minimum wage, but it should be raised to at least $10-$12/hour.

 

[JoeMoma]

The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. I would have trouble finding an hourly job that doesn't pay more than that in my area. It was only this weekend I got takeout from a restaurant that had a help wanted sign at a pay of $11.00 per hour for entry level jobs teenagers can apply for.

 

[bill718]

I'd say so. States have largely established their own minimums, based on their own politics and circumstances.

The current minimum is just about a dead letter, as few earn at that level in 2025.

Closing up the Wage and Hour Division would free 1,700 people to do something else. Maybe work in the fields to replace the illegals being deported, just thinking?

State Minimum Wages

This chart shows state minimum wage rates in effect as of Jan. 1, 2021, as well as future enacted increases.

www.ncsl.org

Perhaps, but I think we have more important things to do than worry about what the Federal minimum wage is.

 

[Lisa558]

There will always be plenty of jobs available for the low skilled and dullards to work at a DNC troll farm.

They can also get off welfare and do the jobs the illegals were doing. It’s a win:win - we get rid of the illegals AND get more Americans off welfare.

 

[TNHarley]

Yes. They have no authority to mandate wages. None. Zip. Nada.

 

[rightwinger]

Over the last 20 years, Republicans have made it irrelevant

 

[initforme]

They can also get off welfare and do the jobs the illegals were doing. It’s a win:win - we get rid of the illegals AND get more Americans off welfare.

As long as they are 2x what illegals were making plus benefits.

 

[Captain Caveman]

get rid of the state ones too,,

they prevent to low skilled and dullards from working,,

Unfortunately, some numpties are not worth the minimum, so I agree, scrap minimum wage totally.

 

[Lisa558]

As long as they are 2x what illegals were making plus benefits.

No, they will drive inflation higher. They should be paid what market determines.

Now it so happens that the illegals were working for cash, and below the minimum wage. So now American citizens can come off welfare and do those jobs at the higher pay.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

There is NOTHING in the Constitution that gives Congress the power to regulate wages, minimum or maximum. The power has been inferred from the words, "The Congress shall have the power...To regulate commerce...among the several states..."

How, exactly, does that imply the power to establish a minimum wage? In short, it does not.

Why haven't you filed a suit to have it overturned?

 

[initforme]

No, they will drive inflation higher. They should be paid what market determines.

Now it so happens that the illegals were working for cash, and below the minimum wage. So now American citizens can come off welfare and do those jobs at the higher pay.

Perhaps we don't need anybody working the fields...

 

[initforme]

Agreed but the market wage will go up. It's not a bad thing.

 

[Lisa558]

Perhaps we don't need anybody working the fields...

But I thought the argument to let in illegal lowlifes was that we needed them to pick the corn.

 

[Lisa558]

Agreed but the market wage will go up. It's not a bad thing.

Yes, it will. That’s because we will get rid of the illegals suppressing wages.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Yes. They have no authority to mandate wages. None. Zip. Nada.

Liberals Are Unconscious Agents of the Right Wing They Were Born In

Unions should do that. Statists are actually into taking away citizens' initiative with this Big Brother persona. The worst mistake union leaders made was when they became suckers for the Democratic Party.

It is (pun intended) a left-handed way of crushing unions. It is the untold reason union membership has been dwindling towards non-existence for the past 60 years.