Even at that it is still poverty, but at least it would help alot of people. I see so many people struggling week to week and still not have enough. Can you imagine having rent, children and everything that comes along with it and only making around $6.00 an hour BEFORE taxes? This is scary?
2007-04-26 09:00:58 · 9 answers · asked by golfnuttoday 1 in Social Science ➔ Economics
Minimum wage should be abolished, I think.
The lie: an increase in the minimum wage helps poor people.
A minimum wage helps no one. Except for the politicians who propose it in an effort to look "sensitive to the need of the poor." After all, we need to help these poor people, and get them all the money we can.
What does the minimum wage actually do?
- It causes unemployment.
Economists don't agree on much, but this is one thing they do agree on. When you require employers to pay a minimum wage, any worker whose labor is not worth that wage is fired, or never hired to begin with.
"The minimum wage is not what it pretends to be. Proponents say that it guarantees workers some minimum compensation level. It doesn't. A minimum wage law just makes it illegal to pay someone less than some amount for an hour of work. It does not require employers to hire anyone at all for the job. In effect it makes certain low skill jobs illegal and abolishes them. Employers typically either eliminate the task or continue doing it using some labor saving technique. People who do not at the moment have enough skill or ability to earn the legal minimum wage are prohibited from getting a job with which they could climb the ladder of success."
2007-04-26 09:08:01 · answer #1 · answered by frozen555 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It depends on where you live in the states--for example, California has such a high cost of living that even the poorest neighborhoods are still fairly expensive in comparison to the minimum you can make.
On the other hand, I am not of the belief that minimum wage SHOULD be abolished, or that it is necessarily a bad thing. It is designed for those people who have chosen not to get a college education. That's not to say anything bad about said people (heck, I'm one of them)--it's simply to say that those people earning more than minimum wage have worked HARD to get the pay that they're getting. And unfortunately, like you said, even those people aren't getting nearly as much as they deserve--ESPECIALLY teachers.
This society is such a lazy one, it's no wonder no one understands the value of a dollar. You have to WORK to get places in life--we can't just sit around and expect people to do everything for us.
2007-04-26 16:17:58 · answer #2 · answered by Jenn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!! If minimum wage followed the cost of living increase, people would make over $9.00 an hour. Just consider gasoline; there was a time when you could work for an hour to fill a tank. Now, at minimum wage, it'll take you all day to earn enough to fuel up. The less a person is paid is directly proportionate to how close he is to being a slave.
2007-04-26 16:22:36 · answer #3 · answered by frogbard 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eight dollars an hour is still pitiful.
Not demanding more money than minimum wage at any job is your own fault. I repeat, your own fault. I don't care if you are just a busboy or clerk.
If everyone in that minimum wage boat doesn't start taking their finances seriously then shame on you. not the government.
How about starting a Union? then you can weigh in on how much your company makes in your store vs employees. and then you can determine how much you add to the company and Presto, you can finally get a decent American income.
I recall Chris Rock: Never Scared, "if Bill Gates woke up this morning with Opera's money, he would shot himself" I feel the same way about minimum wage...
2007-04-26 16:26:20 · answer #4 · answered by Placido 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know $5.65 is ridiculous as a national wage. And I think it should be increased. I do not see in any way at all how the minimum wage itself hurts anyone. Would you like to get paid $2 an hour just because all you do is sweep. That is idiotic. I am lucky enough to have been able to get a job that pays $11 an hour and I still have difficulty supporting only myself, forget about having kids if I did, somebody would have starved for sure.
2007-04-26 16:23:22 · answer #5 · answered by ThaiGold 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you're on min wage making babies, and can't make ends meet....who's fault is that? Don't get me started.
There should be no min wage - arbitrarily raising it hurts small business....the employer pays even more to FICA and soc sec..in many cases this could be the end of the biz or the end of a job(s) in the biz at least.
Please please pay me more for doing the same old job, sounds like a union doesn't it?
Since when does uncle sam (me and my smart hard working taxpaying friends) owe anyone a livable wage. When that happens, it's all over kiddos.
2007-04-26 17:37:56 · answer #6 · answered by monsterfromspace 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It should be raised a lot more than that. Minimum wage needs to become what it was intended to be: the amount of money required to survive as a family of four. Not the joke that it is now.
2007-04-26 16:08:51 · answer #7 · answered by erinn83bis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes x 1000000000000000000 if not more :P, they pay people so little is just pathetic, tired of all those dumb entertainers making Millions of dollars for doing Nothing really, yet the teachers and fire dept etc get nothing
2007-04-26 16:06:22 · answer #8 · answered by eclipse555 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes i do, it wasn't long ago that my husband was making that and it was so hard. there is 6of us and its hard to get things to stretch
2007-04-26 16:08:51 · answer #9 · answered by Jamie S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋