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Originally Posted by Guest
I cannot understand why Republiicans are against raising the minimum wage in increments to $15 per hour. Not all in one jump, but increments over a couple or three years.
Businesses could gradually increase prices and the consumer would not mind and the business would not suffer loss.
The minimum wage should represent a wage that a minimally employed family of four could live on decenty.
Democrats do not want to set a minimum wage as what to strive for but rather as a safety net if nothing higher or more skilled can be found.
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I don't want to start off by insulting your intelligence...yet. Maybe the reason we don't want to increase the minimum wage is because we believe that each state should handle that. After all, each state has a different level/standard of living and medium pay. You cannot get a studio apartment in NYC for a thousand bucks a month, but you can buy a 3 or 4 bedroom house for that in many Southern states. Gasoline costs are different by state. $15 might be great in some states, low in other states and really high in others.
Democrats mean well, but liberal politicians are not trying to do well for you, they are trying to buy your votes. They know that the price of a hamburger will go up to offset the higher wages. They know that the prices at Walmart will go up when wages go up. No business owner is going to short change him/herself and their family just to make a bunch of low motivated earners happy. Minimum wage jobs are not meant to be subsistence jobs. Anyone that thinks that someone should be so unmotivated to try to support a family on minimum wages is crazy. No, the government should not be mandating wage levels, period.