Posted on 01/13/2015 10:01:36 AM PST by Edmunds mom
A minimum wage law is not a measure that says in effect, “Please be generous and try to pay your employees X dollars an hour.” No, it is a law that says, “All the police powers of the state will come down on your business or nonprofit if you dare to hire a single person for X-minus-one-penny per hour.”
Minimum-wage laws are not carrots that incentivize generous pay. They are clubs that punish the hiring of any persons who cannot provide their employers, during every working hour, with goods and services that are worth not only the minimum wage itself but also the cost of mandated employee benefits -- a total you can roughly estimate at 125% of X.
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True, but not completely true in the presence of a welfare floor. What happens when the effective welfare wage is above the minimum wage? Very few people are incentivized to work.
Does that mean I'm for a minimum wage? No, not exactly, or even approximately. My focus is on what this wage competes against. Clean up welfare fraud, change EBT back to food stamps to make it inconvenient, stop throwing money at the underclass for things that are not essential.
Raising minimum wage has several indirect impacts (maybe “unintended” consequences), which are almost entirely negative for all people, or end up totally eliminating any supposed benefits for the poor.
Exactly. It can be positive for politicians, buying votes.
Accepting government welfare benefits should be encouraged only as a last resort. Benefits should be limited to lifetime maximums or for only short periods of time. No able-bodied person should be allowed to stay on the welfare roles for free and forever at taxpayers expense.
And like student loans, workers should have to pay back some portion of the welfare they received while unemployed into a pool for future welfare recipients to draw upon. This is in addition to the taxes and normal deductions they would pay into the system as employed taxpayers.
In other parts of the country the minimum wage is of no consequence because the labor market is so tight that even unskilled workers can command a higher wage.
There is no reforming welfare there is only END it.
To suggest that it is possible to reform theft into something noble, it is not possible. And welfare is theft, from the productive and giving it to the nonproductive in exchange for their votes. It is not charity. Charity does not come down the barrel of a gun, theft does. And taxation is theft. Especially on “income”.
Raising the minimum wage makes it harder for the unskilled to find employment, when employers can find skilled people for the same wage.
It also raises the cost of childcare, a job often paid minimum wage, pricing out many working families.
What’s the problem? Fill the labor pool with illegals and keep the rest fat and happy with EBT goodies. - Your friendly Democrat.
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