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Akai
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Classic
Posts: 621
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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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Magnificent Bastard
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Bermuda Triangle
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Also, it doesn't mean that people are going to turn around and spend money at the same company they work for. You can be a worker at a Coca-Cola plant and only buy products made by Pepsi, so there is no guarantee that the increased wages companies are required to pay employees will be returned.
Also, granting a minimum wage increase for a job like that doesn't mean the person is necessarily working any harder than before. They'd just be compensated more to do the same job. (Unless they're given more tasks and responsibilities to match the wage increase, which would be likely to happen with any company forced to pay its workers more.) |
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 901
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Minimum wage should be lowered to $2 |
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