Posted on 08/25/2023 7:21:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
But what about the stupid people?
Minimum wage used to be for the service workers who get supplemental tips to make it worthwhile. Used to be for teens entering the workforce to gain work experience and weekend date money, buy themselves a clunker and pay for all the stuff associated with having it.
Now they have to pay a person who can’t keep a shake machine running $25 an hour because he has to buy a house.
Didn’t we try to explain to these idiots that if the minimum wage was increased to $15 per hour, then the costs of all goods and services would also rise? Thus, the employee is left in the same situation they were when the minimum wage was $10 per hour. Conservatives were ignored.
The true minimum wage is, and has always been, zero.
I think your math needs some work. Social Security is 6.2% up to the SS wage cap (over $150k last time I checked) and Medicare is 1.45% with no cap. Together that’s 7.65%, with an equal amount then “paid” by the employer (although in reality the employee’s labor pays for it before it gets to the gross pay line).
$20 will not be enough. Then, $30 will not be enough. etc...
No wonder millions of illiterate and unskilled, foreign trespassers are being welcomed into America.
Minimum Skills = Minimum Wage
Minimum Wage laws are waaaay beyond stupid...........................
But nobody gets ‘full time’...................
They sure do.
Both places.
A Wendys or McD’s burger combo is $12.00...
Minimum wage in Japan is $ 7 and hour !
I vote $1 trullion/hour. And I want 7 gazillion to vote it.
Make it $1,500 an hour.
EXACTLY WHAT ITEMS ARE INCLUDED IN THE CALCULATIONS???
Pay TV?
NEW CARS??
STUDENT LOANS FOR “WOMEN’S STUDIES”
Entertainment at concerts-—across the country. What do those tickets cost????
Cell Phones for every family member??? (NEW CELL PHONE IS PRICED WITH $1600 DISCOUNT)-—WHAT THE H IS THE TOTAL PRICE OF A PHONE???
NEW CELL TOWERS ARE BEING BUILT ALL OVER THE USA -—SO “SUZIE” CAN PLAY “WHERE”S JUNE”?????? SOLITAIRE???? Electronic phone games for adults????
THAT IS NUTS.
I wouldn’t own a business today that required employees. Was self-employed for over 43 years doing bookkeeping-—BY MYSELF. Never ran across anyone THEN who had much work ethics. Did IT ALL MYSELF.
Not this liberal crap again.
Most Freepers I’ve run across do not beleive in the free market for labor. They believe in fixing wage Y for job X. And I say pay more and you will get better employees and they tell me I am stupid and have never run a business. My retort is wages are fixed in fascist and communist countrier.
The maximum wage is infinity.
So if we return to slavery then everything will be free?
When you are self-employed-—YOU GET TO PAY BOTH HALVES !!!!
I did from 1980 forward.
They can’t even define what a ‘living wage’ is.
Is the living wage for a teenager living at home with parents the same as a living wage for a single mother living on her own?
But if it’s the same kind of work, shouldn’t they be paid the same?
Some serious virtue signaling intersection here.
Slavery never ended. The chains are just more comfortable and less noticed.
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