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Originally Posted by stevo
Raising the minimum wage by a buck isn't going to do diddly to help poverty. If you really want to fight poverty you should advocate for a minimum wage of, what was is, $13.75/hr. With all this talk about poverty this and poverty that in the midst of a minimum wage arguement, I haven't seen one of you libs argue to increase the minimum wage to such an extent. You are either for these poor people or against them, right? So why do you only want their minimum wage to be increased to $7 and not $14? Someone answer me pLeAsE!!!
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In general I hate the idea of the government dictating to private industry what the payroll should be. It seems like the more power our government has the more our polititians and their (families, contributors, friends) feed from the public trough.
If we are going to raise the minimum wage to such a high level then we may as well throw in the towel and implement a full scale socialist system, which doesn't seem right to me. Although I could just be short-sighted and trying to avoid the inevitable. Even though the economic principal may be wrong what is wrong with giving the working poor a few bucks?
The more I think about it, Maybe the government should just give the wage increase to them instead of forcing the businesses to. The polititians should have no problem coming up with the money from the billions that they and their cronies are raking in through corruption. After all it is in their best interests to keep the working poor and middle class half way placated or they just might destroy the system and have to work for a living instead of taking their wealth from us.
The minimum wage increase does seem like a minor gesture like throwing a few scraps to the working poor. What solutions do you have to the growing gap between our rulers and their connections to the rest of us? Or do you think that things are fine the way they are and the situation will straighten out on it's own in time?