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Originally Posted by maleficent
i don't think that the government should tell businesses what they should pay, I think the market shoudl determine that, as well as the skill level of the employee.
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That's a noble concept, but not a very realistic one. Most of the business which are affected by minimum wage laws aren't in the business of fair pay. Those jobs usually entail very few or no skills at all-- Certainly not enough for type of pay you would hope to see of the higher skill levels.
I know that, in the case of jobs with low skill level requirements, many businesses will try to exploit people by hiring labor as cheaply as possible if there were no minimum wage requirements (Business already do it in the case of illegal immigrants, though it's illegal). Personally, I can't tell you how many jobs I had which payed the minimum wage level. As it stands, if you tried to live off of minimum wage, you would
BARELY cross the poverty threshold level, assuming you only have to take care of yourself.
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Originally Posted by florida0214
We all know that if you really want to o to school, you can. If you really want a job making 8-10 dollars an hour you can get one. they are not hard to find or difficult to get. America needs to stop asking for Higher wages they need to ask for everything else to get less expensive and for the Government to do something about inflation. Anyway just my two cents what does every body else think.
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Three things:
1.) It's not that easy to go out and find an $8 - $10 job without the proper education, at least not around here. Minimum wage isn't designed as something to live off of. It's only supposed to appeal to a certain group of people.
2.) You make it sound as if raising the minimum wage would be a bad thing. Even if the minimum wage rose to $7.25 an hour, when coupled with inflation, it still won't be as high as it has been in the past.
3.) I've never really understood how minimum wage hurts an economy, as I've always believed it to stimulate economic growth.