thereisnospoon
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An official report was issued regarding wages and one of the factors discussed regarding the middle and lower class wages was the influx of immigrants, mainly illegal. These workers tend to accept lower wages, employers cheat them by paying below market rates, paying them as contractors instead as employees. Present workers, presumably Americans are eventually pushed out.think about this....the middle class has lost ground, 5% less in wages with the cost of living calculated in to it, over the last 8 years.... PART of this is due to keeping the minimum wage so low...because as you said, raising the minimum wage will make all those higher than minimum wage feel they deserve more money, based on what the minimum wage earners are making.... we in the middle class are are biting off our nose to spite our face if we fight to keep the minimum wage as low as possible, or where it is.... this only makes the gap between the richest and the poorest and those in between even GREATER.You are right, they won't raise it enough to damage the economic output.FYI-
President Obama is wanting the minimum wage to go to $10.10 NOT $15.
Of course. The corporatists are evil, but they're not idiots. They're never going to raise the minimum wage to the level that it will damage economic output.
Wise observation. I've never observed a single business go under due to the Minimum Wage. It just doesn't happen. I've asked several times for someone to show us all the examples of businesses going under because of it. So far, no one's provided even one. The fact is, if you're struggling to pay Minimum Wage, your business is doomed. You might as well close up shop.
That's because you are an uneducated simpleton, when the bottom wage is forced up to $15 an hour what happens to the rest of the wage scales, yes everyone wants a raise.