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Bumping the minimum wage up to $15 will raise wages for 28 million workers. Since many of those workers will turn around and spend that money, that is a huge boost for the economy.
Also, a higher minumum wage wouldn't impact prices much at all, in fact if the minimum wage was raised to $15 an hour, the cost of a $16 DvD from Walmart would only increase by about 2 cent more. Does that really bother you?
And finally, if prices of things rose would it really be us getting ripped off? Or would it be minimum wage workers getting paid decently for doing hard work.
You could say that if they're minimum wage they don't have to work hard, but regardless of if you're a lawyer or a toilet cleaner an hour is still the same amount of time for each person and you're both doing the same amount of work.
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Raising minimum wage is a bad thing. It hurts smaller businesses. It makes them hire less people, because they can't afford to pay people $15 hour. So, hurt the small business, and you hurt the middle class. Hurt the middle class, and you weaken the country.
Minimum wage should be lowered to $2