Posted on 02/11/2021 12:34:59 PM PST by Brian Griffin
Minimum wage: if you can’t produce enough value (as defined by strangers), you’re not allowed to earn at all.
Why do you hate poor people?
Minimum wage is $0.00. Pay people what they are worth to your business. If they produce value worth $15.00 per hour OK. Otherwise no.
Yep, there will always be a minimum wage of zero. Mandating a higher one just means the least valuable workers either work under the table and don’t pay taxes, or remain unemployed and sponge off the rest of us.
The higher you drive minimum wage costs, the faster you drive minimum wage jobs into the waiting hands of automation.
The shift of those low-skill jobs to automation is coming no matter what, but once hiring low-skill workers becomes less cost-effective than replacing them with machines, they will be replaced with machines. Ergo, they’ll go from a low-paying job to no job.
My suggestion for the minimum wage is much simpler. It is zero.
The government has no role whatsoever in determining what an individual works out with an employee for wages. It is not a role the government is authorized to play via the Constitution. The government setting a wage is inappropriate interference the in marketplace. The government is preventing some kids and unskilled labor from entering the workforce because they are simply not worth the minimum wage in some situations. The minimum wage is a tool used by unions to force employers to increase wages to their people without being required to negotiate with employers. That is what the minimum wage is all about.
What are you doing at FR?
The government has made it illegal for you to work for less than $15/hr. This is a complete violation of your rights.
The only acceptable scheme would include anyone being allowed to opt-out and take trade their labor for any amount that is agreed to voluntarily.
Well I’m calling the white house to suggest unemployment benefits must also match the $15/he criteria. Who’s with me?
WHERE’S OUR DOUGH JOE n HO?
The government does not have the right to set a maximum or minimum hourly rate of pay.
A federal minimum wage already exists. It is the law of the land.
A federal minimum wage has existed since 1938 I believe.
“The government has made it illegal for you to work for less than $15/hr. This is a complete violation of your rights.”
My proposal would allow for $10/hour wages under certain circumstances.
It has exceptions.
Are more exceptions needed? If so list and define.
What if the value of your labor is worth $9.50?
How is the employer compensated for that extra $0.50?
Is there some kind of exception for that?
The most basic of facts, which most democrats ignore, and many republicans, is that.......
Businesses are not in business to pay wages....
Businesses are in business to produce goods and services.
Thus, a worker gets hired to produce for the business, and not just to get a wage, minimum or maximum or in-between.
Somebody who is productive and performs for the business, deserves a fair wage, which is to be determined by the business owner (or manager).
A minimum wage, as determined by governments (at any level) is counter-productive and punishes the business. Punishing a business is not beneficial, either for the business or its employees.
Alongside those points is another point which democrats fail to recognize or choose to ignore. When a person’s wages is raised to a minimum, as defined by government, then, all the other employees who are earning a higher wage will be expecting that their wages be also increased. A minimum wage that is a bottom line for any job at any company, becomes a direct influence and a demand on all other wages within the company to be increased.
That is too complicated. I really do not have a problem with a $15 an hour national minimum wage. I truly think that most companies will survive just fine. What we really need is to implement E-Verify for all existing and future workers. That will help American workers more than anything else Congress might do.
“What are you doing at FR?”
I know the value of compromise.
Trump stood firm and was rolled over November 3rd.
If Joe doesn’t get a better choice, it will be a flat $15 nationwide with local add-ons.
Employers can ask for what they need, and justify that need, or they will be told their options. Put fingers to keys or be roadkill.
“ there will always be a minimum wage of zero. Mandating a higher one just means the least valuable workers either work under the table and don’t pay taxes, or remain unemployed and sponge off the rest of us.”
+1
“The government does not have the right to set a maximum or minimum hourly rate of pay.”
The federal government has the rights the Supreme Court allows it to have.
There are tens of millions of employers, not one of whom has been able to persuade the Supreme Court to your point of view.
Fixed it for you. :)
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