Kinda wish they’d raise it to $100 per hour, or perhaps to whatever-per-hour Pelosi gets. Show a little respect for the working dudes.
Too bad none of the folks voting for this have ever run a business themselves. If they would LOWER the minimum wage, the economy would be helped ... more people would be hired. Keep in mind, they talk $14,000 a year as a minimum wage, but with Food Stamps, health care, etc, it is actually nearer %65,000 a year ... thanks to our contributing tax dollar subsidy.
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The best bet to kill the idea of minimum wage would be to change the law to offer alternatives to it.
Probably the best thing would be to have an opt-out from FICA, so that employees could choose whether they wanted to be in the Social Security system and Medicare, or not. If they opted out, they would get the money that their employer had previously sent to the government. Effectively doubling their wage.
This would be a huge bonus for those working minimum wage but who do not intend to stay in those jobs, but work in salaried employment.
When the government raises the minimum wage to $9 an hour employers will stop hiring people who are only worth $7.25 an hour.
I’ve hired many a employee at minimum wage.Some got a raise in less then 30 days ( one after the first day)and some have stayed at minimum wage as long as they worked for me.It’s not meant to be a living wage, just a starting point. If your stuck at minimum wage job you need to look at your self, and fix it.
Whenever I hear some leftist offer that we need to raise the minimum wage, I always say, “If raising it is good, then why not simply raise it to $100/hr?” I always love seeing their dumbfounded expressions as they ponder this option. They know there has to be something wrong with this idea, but they just can’t figure out what.
Like I heard on Rushbo sometime ago that Union contracts are based on the minimum wage. That’s Obamas bone to the Unions.
I would simply ask that everyone please start referring to this wage properly. Please start calling it the beginners wage. The minimum wage is meant to get a young person started in the labor force. If you are twenty five years old and are working for minimum wages something is wrong. Maybe you are suffering from a lack of ambition. Obama would say that we need more worker training. Bull all Americans are not stupid only the ones who voted for Obama.
The Pelosi house raised the min wage in the 2nd/3rd qtr of 2008 and GWB signed it into law. By the 4th qtr 2008 we were in an official recession. So, now Obama wants to do more of what caused the “terrible economy he inherited.”
Oh well, at least we get to punish small business owners!
As has been reported, all the entitlement programs could be eliminated and that money would pay each family $60,000 per year. But, administrative costs eat up most of the money.