2006-11-04 05:05:10 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Bring back slavery!
2006-11-04 05:07:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Never.
Here's why. Lets look at minimum wage, if $10 per hour is good isn't $20 better? Yes, of course it is. So let's take it to the extreme say $1,000,000 per hour, yes I know it won't happen but it'll illustrate my point.
Now looks what happens, first inflation goes up, after all the business must cover the cost of wages and they don't have more production to show for it. Then the value of the dollar goes way down. People who were making twice the minimum wage demand $2,000,000 per hour. Suddenly you're paying thousands of dollars for a loaf of bread. If you give it enough time and put up with the pain, all you accomplish is the wages are higher and the prices are higher and everyone is back in the same boat they were before.
Increasing the wage with out a reason, IE more production or a shortage in labor, all you do is fuel inflation. You also make it more attractive for people to hire illegals aliens. How many of them are getting minimum wage?
Even with a smaller increase in the minimum wage you have the same things happen, only on a smaller scale. In the end you are back where you started.
We would be better off in the long helping people get more skills and better education so they could get better jobs that pay a lot more than minimum wage. We could do this with child care at college, financial aid, etc.
Just my opinion.
2006-11-04 05:25:05 · answer #2 · answered by Richard 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've never understood the minimum wage debate. Nobody in the debate has ever seen minimum wage.
Anybody making minimum wage would probably say raising it wouldn't make much of a difference, because prices on everything would go up.
2006-11-04 05:08:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There should not be a federal minimum wage for two reasons.
The first is that the government should not be running private business.
The second is that with the disparities in cost of living from state to state if one believes there should be a minimum wage it should be established by each state, not the federal government. The establishment of a minimum wage would sit clearly in the realm of states rights.
2006-11-04 05:20:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Employers are free to pay any wage they choose. The Federal minimum wage is simply saying employers may not pay less than this amount.
If you are working for minimum wage and are out of high school, I suggest you learn a skill (college, vo-tech, service, OJT).
2006-11-04 05:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a full Republican, but I'd say....never. Actually, I'd like to abolish the minimum wage, because I think it's useless.
The people who make more than the minimum wage obviously don't need it. The people who would earn less than the minumum wage are unemployed....after all, what employer would pay MORE to a worker than what their labor is worth?
It's just a law designed to make people feel secure, and it's counterproductive on so many levels. Better to just get rid of it.
2006-11-04 05:08:46 · answer #6 · answered by timm1776 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree with Ruth and Mel-t on this one,i feel such would end up raising the prices at the cheap people moving stores like wall mart etc..make things worse for the poor ,and for me cause i am poor too,but i only worked for min wag ,back in the 1980S and i was rock-en to the new 3.35 a hour ,wow i was in ,pure heaven of sin back then,if i just would have kept one of my high school car.s like my ex-1970 chevell 454 ,i be rich now...oh well up in smoke...now i need at least 10.00 hr that's min to me....peace brother
2006-11-04 05:21:27 · answer #7 · answered by CIVILIAN 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you really so stupid that you think the cost of increasing the minimum wage won't be passed on to the consumer, which just means increased inflation? That's liberal thinking for you, ignorant to the end ... and beyond.
2006-11-04 05:09:18 · answer #8 · answered by My Evil Twin 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I HELLBENT think that if I was making more than minimum wage I couldn't be a democrat, because then I would be taxed fairly so I am staying silent on this debate - NO TAXES - just refunds baby!
2006-11-04 05:19:11 · answer #9 · answered by HELLBENT 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, we may as well make inflation start going up fast.
Once it goes up, prices go up and the people making it are no better off, and normally those at the middle, don't get raises, will be worst off.
It slows the economy and in general will cause more problems than it would appear to help.
2006-11-04 05:09:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Anytime. Doesn't matter. Doesn't help the poor. Just raises prices at Walmart where they shop.
2006-11-04 05:07:51 · answer #11 · answered by MEL T 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋