why is it good to incresase min wage in us a to 7.15?

Question

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Answer 1

So they can jack up the price of goods for everyone else. If people want to get paid more they should get an education.

Answer 2

People don't understand how their ideologic theories end up with collateral damge that achieves the opposite of their objectives.

We have an illegal immigrant problem b.c supposedly, there are jobs that Americans are unwilling to do. In truth, they sell their labor at a better price than our laborers - and we want to raise the gap between what we pay our own? If the minimum wage earners are so underpaid (you know, the teen-aged bagger at the grocery and the emo-kid who takes my order for fast-food), why are people risking their lives and leaving their families to come here and earn less? Do they consider themselves so downtrodden? In truth, and you can look at the historical models, the raising of minimum wage has never narrowed the gap between rich and poor, it just sounds like a good idea to those who think the government owes priveledge to everyone and that rich people are inherently evil. Overall, it's a zero sum game - as wages go up, across-the-board, so do prices. The biggest losers are the people on a fixed income (Grandma and the SSD reciepient who truly CAN'T work). Other potential damage: Jobs are outsourced to other countries - raising the burden on the welfare system, and tax revenue goes down - raising the deficit. These consequences are exactly the opposite results that the libs want and - believe it or not - even the heartless conservatives.

Government intervention isn't the solution, it's the problem!

Answer 3

Some good examples here.. I have basically said the same thing regarding small business which is really the backbone of the economy.
They will either have to lay off people or they will cut people who are full time with benefits back to part time with no benefits.

Raising the minimum wage will do a few things
It will cause unemployment to go up
It will put more people in the uninsured category
And it will create a larger incentive for the illegal worker who
is usually gettin gpaid under the table and so isnt subject to
minimum wage.
( even the legal ones arent because agricultural jobs have exemptions to minimum wage anyway)

Answer 4

It's a terrible idea, and will end up hurting more poor people than it helps. Most people in the US work for small businesses. Small businesses don't have the ability to easily pass along costs to end users like large corporations do. Remember, if the local hardware raises the price of paint $1/gallon, Joe Sixpack will just drive a mile down the road to Wal Mart. Capital is finite. If a small businessman's labor cost rises by 41% per worker, that cost will have to be recouped somehow. The logical solution for the businessman is to employ 41% fewer workers.

The minimum wage should not be raised, it should be abolished. The only forces which should dictate a person's wage are 1) his/her relative worth to the organization, and 2) good ol' supply and demand. Like it or not, labor is a commodity like any other. If your skill set consists of staying inside the lines when you color, there's not going to be a very high demand for your "skills", and thus your relative worth decreases. If, on the other hand, you have an MBA from Harvard, chaces are pretty good that you'll get what you're asking for vis-à-vis compensation.

Answer 5

The intent of the minimum wage today is a perversion of the original reason when it was put in place over 30 years ago.

Today's minimum wage increases are almost completely political. They are nothing more than a tool by which unions use to increase their base pay. Under the guise of compassion for the the working class, they pass without much opposition.

Class envy has long been used to manipulate people. It works. The real consequences of fall on small businesses. They always get hit the hardest.

Answer 6

Abu did a good job with why minimum wage shouldn't be increased.

I think the Democrats believe that raising the minimum wage helps the poor.

I consider the minimum wage an artificial economic inflate. And I also think it encourages the hiring of illegals.

The new Congress apparently thought this minimum wage issue is why they got elected, making it their first order of business. Where are all the liberals explaining the importance of it?