Posted on 07/27/2016 11:29:41 AM PDT by Kevin C
except I would make it 13 to 19. My son when 19 was worth two men and paid accordingly. Make them earn it.
THAT is worthy of a bumper sticker.
Not so long ago my revisions would have been true. Now that people feel the pain of allowing unabated illegal immigration, deporting 11 million people doesn't seem so ridiculous. Perhaps when they feel the pain of a $15 minimum wage, that won't be so ridiculous either.
The USA imports $2.4 Trillion per year and collects almost nothing in duties on it. A 20% tariff raises $500B which would balance the budget under the Bush administration. Under a free sending leftest maybe not, but almost.
But your flippant comment can be turned against you What about income taxes? Why can marginal rates be 50%? Why not 90%?
Your tagline is promoting him.
Most rational people can see that when spending is completely out of control, increasing revenue is not the answer.
At best a combination tariff and income tax reduction would work the best.
Eliminate the income tax. Completely. And don't pull the dodge of replacing it with a VAT. Then we can talk about tariffs. But first, CUT SPENDING!!!
You keep repeating the “average” red-herring.
Even if “most” jobs “already” start out at “$9 or $10”, the minimum wage increase will make them jump to the NEW “starting out” wage of $13 to $15.
Minimum wage sets the floor for every pay range, regardless of how many people actually earn at the minimum rate. It is $7 today, so those starting out might get $9. If it becomes $10 tomorrow, the starting out will demand $14. That is pure economics.
The globalist cheap labor express has turned the USA into a post industrial service economy. This push is to be expected. I am surprised the minimum wage is a low as it is now.
“The globalist cheap labor express has turned the USA into a post industrial service economy. “
Just wait until those “post industrial service economy” jobs are really automated. We might be 10 years, at max, away from it.
Most illegals work under the table, so a minimum wage wouldn’t matter. Then they go apply for welfare, food stamps, every free handout there is. So they effectively get 3-4 times the minimum wage.
-—Even if “most” jobs “already” start out at “$9 or $10”, the minimum wage increase will make them jump to the NEW “starting out” wage of $13 to $15.-—
Sorry you are wrong...unless its a union contract..
you must have never run or owned a business...
no private business automatically increase his current employees wages to match the increase when minimum wage goes up...
Walmart just increased their minimum to 10.00
Nobody got a increase if they were above 10.00
How do I know this...my wife works for WM...
Donald Trump says wages are too high
Nov 11, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRmi28fjNOs
Donald Trump: Minimum wage has to go up
Jul 27, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJoFHS44rII
Donald Trump, the ADHD Candidate
Michael Reagan
Jul 27, 2016
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelreagan/2016/07/27/donald-trump-the-adhd-candidate-n2198825
In 97 I started at Donaldsons co. inc, making air filters. I would process around 3,000 feet a shift. Fast Forward 10 years, me and another guy were doing 25-30,000 feet a shift.
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