polisciguy
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unskilled workers need a minimum wage.
I am curious what the users of this forum have to say about the federal minimum wage. Should it be abolished, raised, or kept the same and why?
You're assuming it helps them.
I think the wage should be abolished and workers should make about $2 an hour at most. How else are we going to enusre corporate profits and compete with China?
I think the wage should be abolished and workers should make about $2 an hour at most. How else are we going to enusre corporate profits and compete with China?
It should be raised to a living wage.
I disagree, minimum wage jobs are not intended to be lifetime careers. If you are 35-40 and still working for minimum wage, you need to take a good hard look in the mirror and ask yourself "why".
unskilled workers need a minimum wage.
unskilled workers need a minimum wage.
Raise the income tax rate on top earners and double the capital gains tax and you may abolish the federal minimum wage. Until then, rich people can find some other way to nickle and dime poor people.I am curious what the users of this forum have to say about the federal minimum wage. Should it be abolished, raised, or kept the same and why?
Exactly.
unskilled workers need to learn a skill......then they wouldn't need a minimum wage.
I am curious what the users of this forum have to say about the federal minimum wage. Should it be abolished, raised, or kept the same and why?
Min wage laws are unenforceable. If I want to pay someone below min wage, all I need to do is put an empty jar in front of his/her work space.
No, I am not assuming that at all. While it is true, more unskilled workers could find employment if there were no minimum wage law. Instead of having to pay 1 unskilled worker with 9$/hour or whatever it is... you could hire 4 unskilled workers with 2$ an hour. But does that really help the unskilled workers? Sure, more get hired... but working for 2$/hour is no way to make a living in the USA. Such a wage is fitting for the poorest of South American or Latin American countries, or Africa.. or India. Not the USA.
The problem is that there are too many unskilled workers in the USA.
Sure but that sort of rationale only makes sense if you throw all economic theory and common sense out the window.
I agree with abolishing minimum wage in principle but in practice it wouldn't change much anyway. You can only undercut the competition so far before it stops being worth while and there is no real long term advantage to underpaying employees. A business wouldn't layoff $9/hour employees to hire several $2/hour employees because it just wouldn't be worthwhile for those $2/hour employees to take the job. I mean, if you're going to be homeless you might as well be the type of homeless that isn't working a 40 hour work week.
If underpaying wasn't an advantage slavery never would have existed.
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