The Rabbi
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- Sep 16, 2009
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How does increasing the MW add value to the job? It's the opposite. It detracts value because it's an added expense to the business.The min wage was raised in 2009. Where are all the jobs that produced? The very opposite happened. There was stagnation and lack of job growth. Obviously not all of that was from min wage, but some of it surely was.Find a way to make it work?![]()
Yes, as they and every other business has done every time the MW has been raised over the last 77 years.
Got any data for me yet on that?
A raise is one thing. Doubling it is another.
And you still haven't said what you'd do for all those people who worked to get to that point?
You'd be screwing them over royally.
I'm not an advocate of the $15 deal.
I support what Obama suggested in his 2013 SOTU. Increase to $9 immediately to bring MW back to the average it was at for fifty years and later bring it up to $10 indexed to inflation. I don't know how you all could argue that it's somehow better to have lower wages today than forty years ago.
As far as other wage levels, they will be adjusted as well to maintain separation.
MW was designed to put upward pressure on wages. That's exactly what it does. In a world where wage growth has all but stagnated in the last decade, a little upward push is needed.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different outcome.
Who claimed MW was designed to create jobs?
I would say it's meant to add value to your job.
Now, when will you show me the trickle-down jobs gains data from a decade of Bush tax cuts? You all have had a few years to get them out there.
You've never run a business, have you?