Why do Republicans oppose increases in the minimum wage?

Answer 1

same reason they are pro-illegal immigrants and pro outsourcing jobs. cheap labor lines their pockets.

Answer 2

If raising the minimum wage causes inflation then reducing it would have the same effect on lowering it .
Keeping it stagnant has allowed the rich to get richer and the poor to maintain food and shelter which is all the rich feel the working americans need .
Look at the electric phone cable and rent insurance and car payment add in the cost of food gas laudry soap and a pair of work pants and shirt and you will see why the wage remains where it is at .
All you need is a stove shower place to sleep and some tv to keep you occupied when not working .Ok a sink and toilet but thats it .
Now figure rent around 85 dollars a week food at 20 car at 25 gas at 20 insurance at 20 phone at 9 cable at 8 soap at 2 and laundry at 5 and we are at 194 save 5 each week to buy a shirt and pants and you have minimum wage .If you are carefull you can buy two pairs of shoes each year to work in along with the clothes .You are not intitled to a live but just a job and your taxes .240 a week less social security and taxes leaves you just enough to live on .
Why would any corporation want to raise the income of the workers .
You must suffer and save for twenty years to get anything .If you want it now you will have to pay 21% intrest or 8% intrest for a home loan .
You have to spend everything you earn back into the system inorder to maintain the balance .
Why is this so hard for people to see .
We are the property of the rich and our own government .
Soldiers who will risk being killed get paid less then 30 ,000 a year for the privilage .
Ask how many wall street brokers would be willing to risk life and limb for that kind of pay check .
The rulkes are made to benefit the wealthy and very smart not the ones who work hard and risk life and limb .
The safer and more rewarding the job is the less you do and the more you get payed .

Answer 3

1. Because the government has no constitutional authority to dictate private wage agreements between 2 parties.

2. Because it is a 'feel good' 'do something' action that has never actually resulted in the intended result. It has always had some level of DECREASED employment of the unskilled / undereducated, because those people are priced out of the market.

3. It has an inflationary ripple effect, because other peoples' wages would need to increase accordingly because their higher wages for experience and productivity would then be less value compared to the unskilled new hire.

4. The minimum wage is an entry level wage, anyway, not a subsistence wage. It is intended for young or unskilled people new to the workforce. People who have skills, experience and high productivity make more than minimum wage.

5. In 1948, the government made a huge increase in the minimum wage. It had the effect of causing the immediate unemployment of a significant number of unskilled, undereducated young black men. It is this failure to consider consequences that troubles me about people who seek to use the coercive power of government to change what is essentially a private contract between 2 parties.

Answer 4

If you increase the minimum wage, the employer who has to pay that wage, has to increase his costs to compensate for the extra outflow. When the employer increases his costs the next one down the line has to increase his prices to compensate for the added cost of doing business. This goes on and on like a domino effect. Consequently, the goods that the minimum wage person wants to buy are costing him/her more so the increase in his wages has been lost to inflation. Increasing the minimum wage will only have a short term benefit until the inflation catches up with it. And the only reason that Democrats are touting an increase in minimum wage is to pander to their inner city contituency. Let's all remember the Democratic mantra "People with money are bad; poor people need the government to take care of them".

Answer 5

WASHINGTON — Republicans muscled the first minimum wage increase in a decade through the House of Representatives early Saturday after pairing it with a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates.

Combining the two issues provoked protests from Democrats and was sure to cause problems in the Senate, where the minimum wage initiative was likely to die at the hands of Democrats opposed to the costly estate tax cuts. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation next week.

Still, Republican leaders saw combining the wage and tax issues as their best chance for getting permanent cuts to the estate tax, a top Republican priority fueled by intense lobbying by farmers, small business owners and super-wealthy families such as the Waltons, heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune.

"This is the best shot we've got; we're going to take it," said House Majority Leader John Boehner, a Republican. The unusual packaging also soothed conservatives angry about raising the minimum wage over opposition by Republican business allies.

The House passed the bill 230-180 before leaving for a five-week recess.

WHY DO PEOPLE POST AND DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT ? WHO CARES ABOUT ESTATE TAXES THEY DON'T MAKE A DENT IN THE ECONOMY. OR IN ANY BODY WALLET. THE DEMOCRATS TRY TO KILL THE MINIMUM WAGE.

Answer 6

guess what if i replaced into vote casting basically based soul on minimum salary. i could vote republican. in case you own a agency and your paying your workers minimum salary. you could supply your product or centers to the common customer at a real looking value. Now your compelled to pay your workers 2 extra money an hour. Your expenditures could desire to enhance so which you additionally could make a similar quantity of income. this could have a domino effect because of the fact expenditures will enhance around the board. so as that 10 dollar pizza won't be able to reason you sixteen money. offering of direction that he's barely pay 3 workers. incredibly the state of RI has an superior minimum salary then the federal government. AND have self assurance me I incredibly have see the fee of each little thing there enhance (no longer in basic terms gas). extra so then in the state that I stay in actual now that follows the federal government minimum wages rules. Sorry however the Republican have it in this one. stable subject it is not any longer why my considerable concerns lay.

Answer 7

Increasing the minimum wage would increase overall prices of everything. Would decrease our GDP and increase our taxes and the whole time will cause massive inflation. Why do you want to increase the minimum wage anyway. So everyone can be an unskilled unmotivated person who wants to work at jack in the box and live off the govt. and tax cuts for the poor the rest of their life. Sorry that is not the way that capitalism works and democrats apparenntly do not know jack about the effects of increasing minimum wage. all they want is a vote

Answer 8

I already pay more than minimum wage, but if the minimum wage is raised, my employees making $X an hour are now going to expect they are owed $X plus whatever the increase in the minimum wage, as they look at their wage not only as $X but relative to what other workers make.

Answer 9

If they raise the minimum wage, then everything that touches it goes up also. If you make bread, the cost goes up, if you make a widget, the costs goes up. If the prices are too high, then the consumer won't buy the widget from you anymore, so there will be no need for you to be employed. If you think the business owner is going to take it in the shorts you are sadly mistaken. If he can no longer afford 2 employees, then guess what? One of you are going to go. Money doesn't grow on trees you know.

Answer 10

Because it will drive the price of everything up, making it a mute point. If they raise the minum wage by a dollar and everything goes up by 10 cents to cover the cost what is the gain. In most cases the prices will go up more than the raise.

Answer 11

it would mean they would have to come out of their deep pockets and pay these fair wages . it's funny how most republicans is for open borders with Mexico they know that these illegals will bring down wages for hard working Americans and keep the cost of living in check. vote