Should Congress raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour?

Answer 1

Nobody who's worth anything is going to be making 'minimum wage' for more than about 90 days... (this doesn't refer to people who also receive tips in their jobs)... yeah Swede. we all know about waitresses, you're a little late to the table in pointing that out)...

And there is NOBODY out there who's raising a family of ten making minimum wage, either (Democrats try to get people to believe that everyone who earns minimum wage is also raising a family of ten, rather than being the young, inexperienced workers who live at home and who actually are making minimum wage)...

The only reason Democrats are calling for a minimum wage increase is because it's an election year, but more importantly, union wages are tied to the minimum wage...so when the minimum goes up, so do union wages... the Dems try to make people think they care about people making minimum wage, but the fact is the only thing they care about are union members whose dues contributes to the Democratic party. They couldn't care less about some kid out there making minimum wage..that kid's not contributing anything to the Democratic coffers. They care about dues-paying union workers, and nothing else.

The reason some inexperienced workers make minimum wage is because, without experience, that's what they're worth. You get experience, you get to make more money. Not complicated.

Answer 2

Minimum Wage is a guarantee that you will be paid enough money to live on because it the only way you can make a living.

If the minimum wage is raised, then inturn the restaurant owner who now pays 20 waitresses $1.00 more per hour has to raise his prices now to keep his head out of the water. This goes for Supermarkets & anyother minimum wage jobs that produce product.

So if it's raised to help w/gas prices or just the cost of living, its still gonna hurt you on the next corner.
I'm not against it, it just doesn't sound like a very good solution to the problem.

I think goverment should just print more money and we'll have an x-mas in july :-)

Answer 3

Why $7.25? Why not $50 or $100.
Minimum is a transitional wage - MOST people don't make it for long before getting a raise. Raise the minimum wage and you increase the cost to employers for hiring entry level people.

Answer 4

For those conservatives who don't seem to understand the reality of minimum wage, #1 Waitresses don't work on minimum wage. They get tips, so employers aren't required to pay them minimum wage. Their wages won't get raised $1.00 an hour. #2, most "minimum wage" jobs are already getting paid above minimum wage. Typically, at McDonald's, for example, workers are generally already making $7.50 an hour. Raising the minimum wage isn't going to raise their wages at all. It's just going to bring it more in line with reality. Even, the housecleaners I know already make $7.00-$7.50 an hour.

Therefore, in reality, raising the minimum wage is not going to increase prices that dramatically. The minimum wage was created to serve as a wage floor, under which no job should fall below. Factoring in inflation, it is now lower than at any time since the 1950s. If you allow employers to pay essentially 1950s wages at 2000's prices, you're giving them a free pass for exploitation of their workers and pocketing of money for their shareholders (who 9 times out of 10 probably aren't even using that company's products or services). Is that right?

Answer 5

Watch the markets and the jobs/employment rate. When the minimum wage goes up, people get fired! The ONLY groups who ask for more minimum wage are unions and employment organizations because they base their "dues" on that. They hold businesses almost at gunpoint (with a pen) and strangle them to raise the wage but then all they have to show for it is the same level of skilled workers and enthusiasm that should make a company successful but is driven into firing workers due to cost overruns and bankruptcies. Do away with a "minimum wage", and you'll see people work for more earnings or leave and get an education to get skills to be worth more, to earn more. As long as there's a "Minimum wage", people will still do as little as possible to get what they wouldn't normally deserve and cause a decline in the level of services YOU are paying for. Take no illusions from that, if the minimum wage goes up, you'll see only more thrown into poverty because you won't get money from the owners. Owners only have to fire the lowest of their organization to maintain the same lifestyle as offset by a rise in minimum wage, rise in inflation, rises in tax, rises in fuels, ect...
Do away with the minimum wage and you'll see a market almost immediately come into equillibruim with a market's costs and abilities to make dividends. Those dividends are the only thing that make wages better.

Answer 6

Blah blah blah, Yes, we should raise it, If you raise the min 7% our product will raise about 2%. Without a min "We the People" would have no protection from the corporations. Wages are not the point, the gap between the rich and poor is far greater then the 50s 60s and 70s.

Answer 7

I heard that only 4 % of the work force is paid minimum wage. Raising it to 7.25$/hr would have no inflationary impact that I can see.

This is especially easier to see as a noninflationary event when you compare it to the low inflationary impact on the economy that we have experienced by the sudden and unexplained increases in the prices of crude oil from every wellhead in the world and every barrel still in the oil fields, and every gallon of petroleum products processed and shipped from the petroleum refineries across the globe.

Answer 8

No, of course not. It's such a disengenuous move to begin with, because the cost of living will adjust with it.

Economy 101 for all feel-good liberals:

Labor expense=part of the cost of doing business

Cost of doing business determines price of goods or services

Labor costs go up=prices go up

Prices go up, minimum wage is devalued, people still cannot make a living on minimum wage

Instead of raising the minimum wage, I think what we should do is for anyone who makes minimum wage, there be free supplemental education (the internet, available at all public libraries, is a wonderful thing) to help wage earners learn skills to help them move out of the minimum wage earner category, and grow and develop in their jobs.

Or how about give tax credits to companies who actively train and promote team members from minimum wage jobs to better paying ones?

Ah, but see, if you do that, what you do is teach people self-reliance, and for liberals, self reliance=one less voter (read: slave to liberal policy). So instead they clamor on about "mean" conservatives trying to keep the working man down, and promote class envy.

The old adage is correct; it's better to teach a man how to fish for a lifetime than it is to give a man a fish today.

Answer 9

NO!!! my goodness what business can afford that? Think about how high all the prices will go if the companies have to increase wages across the board. What ever happened to getting a raise because you work hard? When Min. wage is so high, it takes forever to get a raise because even newbies have high saleries.
Sheesh!

Answer 10

Yes, I think so. Minimum wage hasn't been raised in many years, and making it on the minimum wage now is almost impossible in a one income family.