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It may impact right wingers bottom line in the short term. That is why they don't want it.Low skill, low wage workers have very little negotiating leverage. Which is why it is so easy to exploit them.
Why we need a minimum wage
You should pay more because the taxpayer must support your workers with subsidies for food, housing and medical care
If your employee gets sick or injured, why should the taxpayer have to pay to make them well?
New Zealand has a $16 dollar an hour minimum wage and they still have a homeless problemNot in all situations or we would have no poverty and no homeless problem.Why do you think that two free adults can't decide for themselves what they are willing to trade labor for compensation?Raise the minimum wage means low wage workers have more to spend on college, less need for debt, less need for public assistance
Do you think potential workers are too stupid or worthless to determine their own worth in the job market? Whose fault is that?
It is still a drag on wages outpacing inflation.Business knows that there are a low skilled class of people who will accept any meager wage offered. As long as they have a supply of those people, they will pay any wage they can get away with.
Republicans celebrate that as Free Market
But that market does not pay a wage workers can support themselves or a family. The taxpayer picks up the difference in housing aid, food stamps, medical care.
The employer keeps the profit
What is the typical household income where one of the workers earns the minimum wage?
$15,000 a year
As you know, it is $53,000 a year.
Who Earns the Minimum Wage? Suburban Teenagers, Not Single Parents
February 28, 2013
In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for raising minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. He argued that “no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.”[1] Most minimum-wage workers, however, are not poor. Congress should examine which workers—that would not lose their jobs—would benefit from a higher minimum wage.
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau show that most minimum-wage earners are young, part-time workers and that relatively few of them live below the poverty line. Their average family income is over $53,000 a year. A hike in the minimum wage primarily raises pay for suburban teenagers, not the working poor. If Congress and the President seriously want to help the working poor, they should look elsewhere.
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Who Earns the Minimum Wage? Suburban Teenagers, Not Single Parents
In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for raising minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. He argued that “no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.”[1] Most minimum-wage workers, however, are not poor. Congress should examine which workers—that would not lose their...www.heritage.org
It matters if they keep the money they didn't have to pay in taxes but still layoff Persons to maximize the bottom line.higher wages = higher prices!!!
Higher wages mean more consumption, less debt, less need for public support.
Higher wages mean more consumption, less debt, less need for public support.
And less consumption, more debt for the business.
Less profit
Profits and executive salaries have soared over the last 35 years. Business just received a 40 Percent cut in taxes
Wages have been stagnant
Less profit
Fewer employees.
Business just received a 40 Percent cut in taxes
Taxes don't matter if you don't turn a profit.
False witness bearers should not be taken seriously for morals purposes.Low skill workers should work on their skills before starting a family.
Interesting sentiment
Those with low skills should not be allowed to breed
How Republican of you
Those with low skills should not be allowed to breed
No, you silly twat. If you're making $7.25 an hour, you can't support a family,
so don't start one.
Your low-skill ass isn't suddenly worth $15 an hour just because you had a kid.
Inflation happens. Wages should outpace inflation on an Institutional basis.Minimum wage earned over the Summer used to cover a years tuition. Now, it does not come close
That's what happens when the government throws trillions at student loans....tuition gets hiked.
Black codes were fun for you?Maybe instead of "Minimum Wage" laws, we could just do "Wage" laws, and have the government decide what everyone deserves to make.
Don't remember your own right wing propaganda and rhetoric?you need to provide proof of that stupidityStill don't remember your right wing parroting propaganda? You Right Wingers want the minimum wage to be zero.minimum wage is not slaverywhy abolish slavery; right wing logic and reasoning = worthless.raise minimum wage = raising prices = worthlessLOL. Still clueless and Causeless regarding right wing propaganda and rhetoric, right wingers? Y'all want the minimum wage to truly be Zero.slavery and minimum wage---????HAHAHHAHHAHAHAlol. Why abolish slavery then, right wingers. That is what you really want. DUH1. doesn't matter how much $$$$ you give stupid people, they will still be poor“Raise the Wage Act”, (H.R. 582) would have increased most USA’s wage-earning families’ incomes.
The last minimum wage bill that was proposed and considered in congress, was H.R. 258, “Raise the Wage Act”. It was passed by the Democratic majority house, then passed on to the Republican majority senate, (where it now lies effectively dead).
Refer to the Congressional Budget office’s, (i.e. CBO’s) minimum wage rate report,
How Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Could Affect Employment and Family Income | Congressional Budget Office, and follow the link’s instructions to obtain the HR 258 interactive graphs.
Referring to the graph entitled “Average Percentage Change in Real Family Income, by Income Group”: The graph indicates average incomes of families earning less than 3 times the poverty threshold increase. Average incomes of higher income families do not perceivably begin to decrease until those incomes achieve 6 more times the poverty threshold;
(i.e. CBO’s study confirms minimum wage rate’s beneficial effects upon job’s rates are inversely related. Employees within the lowest wage rate brackets most benefit in proportion to their incomes, and those benefits (proportional to incomes) are incrementally lesser as incomes increase. Thus, the wage incomes of most USA’s wage earners would have benefit or would not be detrimentally affected by passage of H.R. 582.
[Six, (6) times a family of three’s income equal or exceeding 6 times the poverty threshold would be $122,000 per year and for a family of four it would well exceed $125,00 per year expressed in 2018 U.S. dollars.]
Respectfully, Supposn
2. higher wages = higher prices!!!! SO, they still can't afford things!! DUH
Me being right wing want everybody to be paid exactly what the job is worth.
Are you willing to pay a police officer more than they are making?
lol. Right wingers were democrats until the civil rights acts, then they are went Republican.democrats gave birth to the black codes sorry if that chaps your ass..... no I'm not.Black codes are one right wing example of why your logic and reasoning are unsound.They move on and someone else comes in to be exploited.
They gains skills and experience, move on to better jobs and then new unskilled, inexperienced workers move into their first job? Sounds horrible!!! Gotta saw off the lower rungs of that ladder of success, eh comrade?
lol. Because the dollar menu will not double even if the minimum wage does. And a person earning fifteen dollars an hour pays approximately five times more in federal income taxes than do persons at the current minimum wage.higher paid labor creates more demand? explain how you come up with that reasoning?Why do you believe that? Higher paid labor creates more in Demand and pays more in Taxes.higher wages = higher prices!!!
Higher wages mean more consumption, less debt, less need for public support.
Higher wages mean more consumption, less debt, less need for public support.
And less consumption, more debt for the business.
If it cost me more for labor I'll do it myself which means no one is working or earning money
something a leftists create is not right wing propagandaDon't remember your own right wing propaganda and rhetoric?you need to provide proof of that stupidityStill don't remember your right wing parroting propaganda? You Right Wingers want the minimum wage to be zero.minimum wage is not slaverywhy abolish slavery; right wing logic and reasoning = worthless.raise minimum wage = raising prices = worthlessLOL. Still clueless and Causeless regarding right wing propaganda and rhetoric, right wingers? Y'all want the minimum wage to truly be Zero.slavery and minimum wage---????HAHAHHAHHAHAHAlol. Why abolish slavery then, right wingers. That is what you really want. DUH1. doesn't matter how much $$$$ you give stupid people, they will still be poor“Raise the Wage Act”, (H.R. 582) would have increased most USA’s wage-earning families’ incomes.
The last minimum wage bill that was proposed and considered in congress, was H.R. 258, “Raise the Wage Act”. It was passed by the Democratic majority house, then passed on to the Republican majority senate, (where it now lies effectively dead).
Refer to the Congressional Budget office’s, (i.e. CBO’s) minimum wage rate report,
How Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Could Affect Employment and Family Income | Congressional Budget Office, and follow the link’s instructions to obtain the HR 258 interactive graphs.
Referring to the graph entitled “Average Percentage Change in Real Family Income, by Income Group”: The graph indicates average incomes of families earning less than 3 times the poverty threshold increase. Average incomes of higher income families do not perceivably begin to decrease until those incomes achieve 6 more times the poverty threshold;
(i.e. CBO’s study confirms minimum wage rate’s beneficial effects upon job’s rates are inversely related. Employees within the lowest wage rate brackets most benefit in proportion to their incomes, and those benefits (proportional to incomes) are incrementally lesser as incomes increase. Thus, the wage incomes of most USA’s wage earners would have benefit or would not be detrimentally affected by passage of H.R. 582.
[Six, (6) times a family of three’s income equal or exceeding 6 times the poverty threshold would be $122,000 per year and for a family of four it would well exceed $125,00 per year expressed in 2018 U.S. dollars.]
Respectfully, Supposn
2. higher wages = higher prices!!!! SO, they still can't afford things!! DUH
Me being right wing want everybody to be paid exactly what the job is worth.
Are you willing to pay a police officer more than they are making?
Yet, right wingers had No Problem whatsoever with black codes, only a higher minimum wage.because they are incapable of earning more moneyWhy are more than one million workers earning below the minimum wage in our First World economy?Business knows that there are a low skilled class of people who will accept any meager wage offered. As long as they have a supply of those people, they will pay any wage they can get away with.
Republicans celebrate that as Free Market
But that market does not pay a wage workers can support themselves or a family. The taxpayer picks up the difference in housing aid, food stamps, medical care.
The employer keeps the profit
Business knows that there are a low skilled class of people who will accept any meager wage offered. As long as they have a supply of those people, they will pay any wage they can get away with.
Then why were only the bottom 2% of hourly workers making at or below the minimum wage?
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Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2017 : BLS Reports: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
In 2017, 80.4 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 58.3 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 542,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 1.3 million had wages...www.bls.gov
But that market does not pay a wage workers can support themselves or a family.
Most minimum wage workers are young and live with their parents.
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Half are under 25. Only about 1% of workers 25 and older earn minimum wage.
lol. I resort to the fewest fallacies and am the truest witness bearer as a result.irony alert lolBeing moral enough to obey a simple Commandment from God regarding bearing True Witness to our own at-will employment laws, even for unemployment compensation. Right wingers, never get it./—-/ That makes no sense. What are you babbling about?3. Fewer HiringsSo what. Employment is at the will of either party and so should unemployment compensation. Obey the laws right wingers.If business must pay their minimum wage employees more, they cannot afford to hire as many employees. According to a Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago study, “10 percent increase in the minimum wage lowers low skill employment by 2 to 4 percent and total restaurant employment by 1 to 3 percent.” Or instead of hiring fewer employees, the company may start outsourcing jobs to employees in countries that are willing to work for much less than $10.10 per hour, resulting in fewer jobs for Americans.
So where does this new money come from? Because the dollar menu will go up to compensate for the rising cost of labor.lol. Because the dollar menu will not double even if the minimum wage does. And a person earning fifteen dollars an hour pays approximately five times more in federal income taxes than do persons at the current minimum wage.higher paid labor creates more demand? explain how you come up with that reasoning?Why do you believe that? Higher paid labor creates more in Demand and pays more in Taxes.higher wages = higher prices!!!
Higher wages mean more consumption, less debt, less need for public support.
Higher wages mean more consumption, less debt, less need for public support.
And less consumption, more debt for the business.
If it cost me more for labor I'll do it myself which means no one is working or earning money
black codes are a democrat creation not a republican creationYet, right wingers had No Problem whatsoever with black codes, only a higher minimum wage.because they are incapable of earning more moneyWhy are more than one million workers earning below the minimum wage in our First World economy?Business knows that there are a low skilled class of people who will accept any meager wage offered. As long as they have a supply of those people, they will pay any wage they can get away with.
Republicans celebrate that as Free Market
But that market does not pay a wage workers can support themselves or a family. The taxpayer picks up the difference in housing aid, food stamps, medical care.
The employer keeps the profit
Business knows that there are a low skilled class of people who will accept any meager wage offered. As long as they have a supply of those people, they will pay any wage they can get away with.
Then why were only the bottom 2% of hourly workers making at or below the minimum wage?
View attachment 382215
.Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2017 : BLS Reports: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
In 2017, 80.4 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 58.3 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 542,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 1.3 million had wages...
But that market does not pay a wage workers can support themselves or a family.
Most minimum wage workers are young and live with their parents.
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Half are under 25. Only about 1% of workers 25 and older earn minimum wage.
what you do is twist words you conflate things that are not true. You try to hang shit democrats did on the right wing which is a lie.lol. I resort to the fewest fallacies and am the truest witness bearer as a result.irony alert lolBeing moral enough to obey a simple Commandment from God regarding bearing True Witness to our own at-will employment laws, even for unemployment compensation. Right wingers, never get it./—-/ That makes no sense. What are you babbling about?3. Fewer HiringsSo what. Employment is at the will of either party and so should unemployment compensation. Obey the laws right wingers.If business must pay their minimum wage employees more, they cannot afford to hire as many employees. According to a Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago study, “10 percent increase in the minimum wage lowers low skill employment by 2 to 4 percent and total restaurant employment by 1 to 3 percent.” Or instead of hiring fewer employees, the company may start outsourcing jobs to employees in countries that are willing to work for much less than $10.10 per hour, resulting in fewer jobs for Americans.
no shit for brains right-wing is not democrats it's never been democratlol. Right wingers were democrats until the civil rights acts, then they are went Republican.democrats gave birth to the black codes sorry if that chaps your ass..... no I'm not.Black codes are one right wing example of why your logic and reasoning are unsound.They move on and someone else comes in to be exploited.
They gains skills and experience, move on to better jobs and then new unskilled, inexperienced workers move into their first job? Sounds horrible!!! Gotta saw off the lower rungs of that ladder of success, eh comrade?
Why do you believe that?
Why are more than one million workers earning below the minimum wage in our First World economy?
You should pay more because the taxpayer must support your workers with subsidies for food, housing and medical care
