Posted on 09/01/2016 11:18:34 AM PDT by MichCapCon
The purpose of the “minimum wage” (government-mandated hourly pay rate) is to take as much money as possible from businesses. If the business goes under, that is no concern to the left which just raises taxes on someone else.
When do we address multi-million salaries that do far more to kill jobs than does a raise in the minimum wage.
Repeal and Replace with NO TAX on working poor wages.
Working poor collect their entire gross, including both EMPLOYEE and EMPLOYER share of FICA, SS, Medicare, etc.
At same time eliminate fraud heavy EITC. Cut back eligibility for SSI, UI, SNAP, EBT, Medicaid, Sec 8 and all welfare.
Reward work. Don’t reward no-work.
Win-Win for employees, employers, customers as no increase in cost of the product.
Losers are those with a phobia to work.
Do away with minimum wage. We don’t need it. Let the business pay what it thinks you’re worth. If you don’t like your pay, go find someone who pays more or get off your backside and learn some skills. Too many don’t want to learn skills which is why they’re stuck in min wage jobs.
Raising the min wage will only cause everything else to go up in price. It also decreases the value of any savings people have. It’s a lose lose situation for everyone.
Everyone should pay taxes.
$15 an hour minimum wage would kill 281,000 jobs.
AND THAT’S A GOOD THING!
Every $7 an hour job means taxpayers are subsidizing another $13 an hour in low-income benefits... PLUS importing another illegal alien.
WAGES BELOW SUBSTINENCE ONLY FEED THE BEAST!
You don’t believe in minimum wages? Fine. End massive immigration, welfare, cuckholded taxpayers, etc. FIRST. Until then, you’re not ending minimum wages, you’re subsidizing taxpayers being ripped off.
Liberals want equality, even if it means we are all equally poor.
How about just $10/hour as a happy compromise?
put the muzzies on minimum wage Dearborn is full of them
even if it means we are all equally poor......EVEN if?!! The whole idea of socialism is to spread the poverty around, evenly.
“A recent study by a conservative think tank found that raising the state minimum wage to $15 an hour would cost Michigan the equivalent of 281,000 full-time jobs in 2021.
The wage raise would directly affect 37.4 percent of wage and salary workers in Michigan, said the study, which was conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation. “
Sounds like a lot of businesses barely hanging on. If those numbers are right, nearly 1 in 3 is only earns the minimum...well, glad I don’t live there.
Job losses in 2021? That’s five years from now - does the Heritage Foundation think ANY politician cares about what may or may not happen 5 years down the road?
They don’t look past the next election.
Yeah, no thanks. Everyone should have skin in the game.
All that plan would do is perpetuate “poor” on a grander scale.
And they will excoriate any business that leaves the country to pay lower wages in a more business friendly country.
Why do you think that CEOs are paid too much? Do you think that raising the minimum wage WON’T cost jobs as businesses relocate to countries that are more business friendly?
How about a career as a Senior Culinary Operations Technician or a Product Packaging Coordinator? Think of how many smiles you’ll be helping to put on other people’s faces!
Re: “An estimated 9 million jobs would be lost nationally due to state minimum-wage hikes...”
What percentage of that 9 million are illegal immigrants, or legal immigrants, or hold some kind of work visa?
I see this issue through the other end of the telescope.
Maybe the business owners are overstaffed because there is so much cheap labor available in the USA?
Maybe the business owners don’t invest in labor saving machines and software so they can pocket more profits?
Maybe the business owners are only working 40 hours a week when they should be working 70 hours a week?
Which would render 281,000 more people wards of the government and likely to vote RAT for the free stuff. Part of the plan!
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