All this talk about wanting to help the low wage earners and bring the minimum wage up to a livable wage is nothing more than government BS!!!!!!
The real reason for the wanted increase is to pay off the unions for their support and votes... Most unions have it in their contracts that if the minimum wage goes up, the union members wages go up accordingly..IOW, if the minimum wage goes up $1.50, the union member floor sweeper, who makes $20.00 an hour will now make $21.50 an hour....
There are very few employees at minimum wage, other than teens who are working part-time, but there are thousands and thousands of union workers...There is where the cost will hit the businesses greatest....
Tremendous numbers of Low Information Voters buy into this sophistry. I suspect we are going to $10/hour with automatic cost of living kickers sooner rather than later.
No mixed response here - NO!
I Agree. We need a minimum wage hike. Lets go to $150 per hour.
I figure since the liberals are picking numbers out of their butts for this we may as well make it a good one.
Raising the minimum wage ALWAYS hurts the miinimum wage worker. Most of them are not worth the amount they are being paid now so the owner has no real choice but to fire them and lean on the remaining workers to work harder
Who’s going to take the risk of hiring an inner city kid now? With the all but certain discipline problems and a new higher wage you’d NEVER get your money’s worth out of them.