Wow, You must be smoking some really good stuff.
Personally, I'm all for dropping minimum wage laws all together for anyone under 20 years old since they don't bring skills or knowledge to a employer.
They should take a lower wage to learn skills and knowledge so they can be a profit center rather than a liability
I, too, am against the minimum wage both on principle and for economic reasons.
But I do recall that even as the minimun wage was becoming a “fait accompli” in our society, there was still an effort to exempt entry level workers, or teens in summer jobs, etc. When even that failed, I knew we were headed for trouble.
Rather than age-based exemptions as you suggest, I would prefer “inexperience” or “entry level job” or something like that as the exempt category.
But be that as it may, we agree it is a wrongheaded idea.
“Personally, I’m all for dropping minimum wage laws all together for anyone under 20 years old since they don’t bring skills or knowledge to a employer.”
And you have some sort of special knowledge as to what those over 20 bring to the table?! Just by virtue of their being over 20. OBVIOUSLY not enough to garner more than a government-mandated wage. And you know what that wage should be? What prices other than that of labor do you think Washington politicos should control, commissar?
You did nothing to refute my comment other than to insult by suggesting that I was on drugs.