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He's being under attack for saying stuff that is completely true.
“I want jobs that pay two or three times the minimum wage,” Walker said, adding, “The way you do that is not by (setting) an arbitrary amount by the state.”
Does that mean the first-term Republican governor opposes a minimum wage on principle?
During Tuesday's meeting with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'sEditorial Board, Walker was asked to clarify his position. He didn't hesitate.
“I'm not going to repeal it,” Walker said. “But I don't think it serves a purpose because we're debating then about what the lowest levels are at. I want people to make, like I said the other night, two or three times that.”
Walker said he wants to help people get the skills they need to find careers that pay many times the current minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour.
“The jobs I focus on, the programs we put in place, the training we put in place is not for people to get minimum wage jobs,” he said.
Liberal groups and labor organizations immediately went on the attack, tearing into the governor for saying he doesn’t think the minimum wage “serves a purpose.”
First out of the box was American Bridge — a Democratic Super PAC — which had video of the quote posted before the Editorial Board had concluded.
Then Walker came under fire from his campaign foe, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. She has said she wants to raise the minimum wage in three stages to $10.10 an hour.
“Well, I disagree with it entirely,” Burke told Journal Sentinel reporter Bill Glauber in response to Walker’s comment earlier in the day. “It's important that people who are working fulltime are able to support themselves without government assistance. That's just sort of common sense.”
She said that reducing the number of people on the public dole would reduce the state budget and improve the economy, adding that many business owners she knows supporting increasing the minimum wage.
“I want to make sure people are able to have the pride of having a full-time job and supporting themselves,” Burke said.
A number of liberal websites — such as Talking Points Memo, Huffington Post and Think Progress — jumped on Walker’s comment.
Finally, a top labor official tried to take the governor to task.
“For nearly a century, American workers have relied on minimum wage protections,” said Stephanie Bloomingdale, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. “Now is not the time to take away these important laws,” she continued. “Now is the time to raise the minimum wage so that people who get up and go to work every day can have a decent standard of living.”
This is the second remark from the debate for which Walker has come under strong criticism.
In the first, the governor said, “We don’t have a jobs problem in this state. We have a work problem.”
Burke and other Democrats ripped the statement, suggesting he is ignoring the fact that Wisconsin trails other states in job growth.
Walker countered in a 30-second ad earlier this week.
He has said the statement at the debate concerned the so-called “skills gap,” the notion that good jobs in the state aren’t being filled because of a lack of trained workers.
“Mary Burke is distorting my comments on jobs,” Walker said in the commercial. “It’s no wonder. The tax-and-spend policies she supports drove out good-paying manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin.”
The two candidates for the state’s top office will square off again Friday, sparking a second round of debate — and TV ads — over what is meant and said.
Link:
Scott Walker says he doesn t believe minimum wage serves a purpose - JSOnline
Does the min. wage serve a purpose or should companies be allowed to pay what the market dictates?
He's being under attack for saying stuff that is completely true.
“I want jobs that pay two or three times the minimum wage,” Walker said, adding, “The way you do that is not by (setting) an arbitrary amount by the state.”
Does that mean the first-term Republican governor opposes a minimum wage on principle?
During Tuesday's meeting with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'sEditorial Board, Walker was asked to clarify his position. He didn't hesitate.
“I'm not going to repeal it,” Walker said. “But I don't think it serves a purpose because we're debating then about what the lowest levels are at. I want people to make, like I said the other night, two or three times that.”
Walker said he wants to help people get the skills they need to find careers that pay many times the current minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour.
“The jobs I focus on, the programs we put in place, the training we put in place is not for people to get minimum wage jobs,” he said.
Liberal groups and labor organizations immediately went on the attack, tearing into the governor for saying he doesn’t think the minimum wage “serves a purpose.”
First out of the box was American Bridge — a Democratic Super PAC — which had video of the quote posted before the Editorial Board had concluded.
Then Walker came under fire from his campaign foe, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. She has said she wants to raise the minimum wage in three stages to $10.10 an hour.
“Well, I disagree with it entirely,” Burke told Journal Sentinel reporter Bill Glauber in response to Walker’s comment earlier in the day. “It's important that people who are working fulltime are able to support themselves without government assistance. That's just sort of common sense.”
She said that reducing the number of people on the public dole would reduce the state budget and improve the economy, adding that many business owners she knows supporting increasing the minimum wage.
“I want to make sure people are able to have the pride of having a full-time job and supporting themselves,” Burke said.
A number of liberal websites — such as Talking Points Memo, Huffington Post and Think Progress — jumped on Walker’s comment.
Finally, a top labor official tried to take the governor to task.
“For nearly a century, American workers have relied on minimum wage protections,” said Stephanie Bloomingdale, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. “Now is not the time to take away these important laws,” she continued. “Now is the time to raise the minimum wage so that people who get up and go to work every day can have a decent standard of living.”
This is the second remark from the debate for which Walker has come under strong criticism.
In the first, the governor said, “We don’t have a jobs problem in this state. We have a work problem.”
Burke and other Democrats ripped the statement, suggesting he is ignoring the fact that Wisconsin trails other states in job growth.
Walker countered in a 30-second ad earlier this week.
He has said the statement at the debate concerned the so-called “skills gap,” the notion that good jobs in the state aren’t being filled because of a lack of trained workers.
“Mary Burke is distorting my comments on jobs,” Walker said in the commercial. “It’s no wonder. The tax-and-spend policies she supports drove out good-paying manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin.”
The two candidates for the state’s top office will square off again Friday, sparking a second round of debate — and TV ads — over what is meant and said.
Link:
Scott Walker says he doesn t believe minimum wage serves a purpose - JSOnline
Does the min. wage serve a purpose or should companies be allowed to pay what the market dictates?
He's being under attack for saying stuff that is completely true.
“I want jobs that pay two or three times the minimum wage,” Walker said, adding, “The way you do that is not by (setting) an arbitrary amount by the state.”
Does that mean the first-term Republican governor opposes a minimum wage on principle?
During Tuesday's meeting with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'sEditorial Board, Walker was asked to clarify his position. He didn't hesitate.
“I'm not going to repeal it,” Walker said. “But I don't think it serves a purpose because we're debating then about what the lowest levels are at. I want people to make, like I said the other night, two or three times that.”
Walker said he wants to help people get the skills they need to find careers that pay many times the current minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour.
“The jobs I focus on, the programs we put in place, the training we put in place is not for people to get minimum wage jobs,” he said.
Liberal groups and labor organizations immediately went on the attack, tearing into the governor for saying he doesn’t think the minimum wage “serves a purpose.”
First out of the box was American Bridge — a Democratic Super PAC — which had video of the quote posted before the Editorial Board had concluded.
Then Walker came under fire from his campaign foe, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. She has said she wants to raise the minimum wage in three stages to $10.10 an hour.
“Well, I disagree with it entirely,” Burke told Journal Sentinel reporter Bill Glauber in response to Walker’s comment earlier in the day. “It's important that people who are working fulltime are able to support themselves without government assistance. That's just sort of common sense.”
She said that reducing the number of people on the public dole would reduce the state budget and improve the economy, adding that many business owners she knows supporting increasing the minimum wage.
“I want to make sure people are able to have the pride of having a full-time job and supporting themselves,” Burke said.
A number of liberal websites — such as Talking Points Memo, Huffington Post and Think Progress — jumped on Walker’s comment.
Finally, a top labor official tried to take the governor to task.
“For nearly a century, American workers have relied on minimum wage protections,” said Stephanie Bloomingdale, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. “Now is not the time to take away these important laws,” she continued. “Now is the time to raise the minimum wage so that people who get up and go to work every day can have a decent standard of living.”
This is the second remark from the debate for which Walker has come under strong criticism.
In the first, the governor said, “We don’t have a jobs problem in this state. We have a work problem.”
Burke and other Democrats ripped the statement, suggesting he is ignoring the fact that Wisconsin trails other states in job growth.
Walker countered in a 30-second ad earlier this week.
He has said the statement at the debate concerned the so-called “skills gap,” the notion that good jobs in the state aren’t being filled because of a lack of trained workers.
“Mary Burke is distorting my comments on jobs,” Walker said in the commercial. “It’s no wonder. The tax-and-spend policies she supports drove out good-paying manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin.”
The two candidates for the state’s top office will square off again Friday, sparking a second round of debate — and TV ads — over what is meant and said.
Link:
Scott Walker says he doesn t believe minimum wage serves a purpose - JSOnline
Does the min. wage serve a purpose or should companies be allowed to pay what the market dictates?
He's being under attack for saying stuff that is completely true.
“I want jobs that pay two or three times the minimum wage,” Walker said, adding, “The way you do that is not by (setting) an arbitrary amount by the state.”
Does that mean the first-term Republican governor opposes a minimum wage on principle?
During Tuesday's meeting with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'sEditorial Board, Walker was asked to clarify his position. He didn't hesitate.
“I'm not going to repeal it,” Walker said. “But I don't think it serves a purpose because we're debating then about what the lowest levels are at. I want people to make, like I said the other night, two or three times that.”
Walker said he wants to help people get the skills they need to find careers that pay many times the current minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour.
“The jobs I focus on, the programs we put in place, the training we put in place is not for people to get minimum wage jobs,” he said.
Liberal groups and labor organizations immediately went on the attack, tearing into the governor for saying he doesn’t think the minimum wage “serves a purpose.”
First out of the box was American Bridge — a Democratic Super PAC — which had video of the quote posted before the Editorial Board had concluded.
Then Walker came under fire from his campaign foe, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. She has said she wants to raise the minimum wage in three stages to $10.10 an hour.
“Well, I disagree with it entirely,” Burke told Journal Sentinel reporter Bill Glauber in response to Walker’s comment earlier in the day. “It's important that people who are working fulltime are able to support themselves without government assistance. That's just sort of common sense.”
She said that reducing the number of people on the public dole would reduce the state budget and improve the economy, adding that many business owners she knows supporting increasing the minimum wage.
“I want to make sure people are able to have the pride of having a full-time job and supporting themselves,” Burke said.
A number of liberal websites — such as Talking Points Memo, Huffington Post and Think Progress — jumped on Walker’s comment.
Finally, a top labor official tried to take the governor to task.
“For nearly a century, American workers have relied on minimum wage protections,” said Stephanie Bloomingdale, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. “Now is not the time to take away these important laws,” she continued. “Now is the time to raise the minimum wage so that people who get up and go to work every day can have a decent standard of living.”
This is the second remark from the debate for which Walker has come under strong criticism.
In the first, the governor said, “We don’t have a jobs problem in this state. We have a work problem.”
Burke and other Democrats ripped the statement, suggesting he is ignoring the fact that Wisconsin trails other states in job growth.
Walker countered in a 30-second ad earlier this week.
He has said the statement at the debate concerned the so-called “skills gap,” the notion that good jobs in the state aren’t being filled because of a lack of trained workers.
“Mary Burke is distorting my comments on jobs,” Walker said in the commercial. “It’s no wonder. The tax-and-spend policies she supports drove out good-paying manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin.”
The two candidates for the state’s top office will square off again Friday, sparking a second round of debate — and TV ads — over what is meant and said.
Link:
Scott Walker says he doesn t believe minimum wage serves a purpose - JSOnline
Does the min. wage serve a purpose or should companies be allowed to pay what the market dictates?
Scott Walker was, is and always will be a dumb ass punk.
It serves a purpose. It allows politicians to give people a "raise" at someone else's expense and get re-elected.
What would happen if we just eliminated the minimum wage today? You think every employer would suddenly start paying $2/hr?
You mean, "the consequences of a worker trying to support himself (and possibly a family) by doing only work that does not create the revenue it takes to pay for it", don't you?the consequences of NOT paying anyone a living wage for working 8 hours a day.
Blaming the victim does not resolve the problem.
Corporate Welfare is the problem.
Give me sound fiscal reasons why any corporation is entitled to the benefits of subsidized employees. Your desire for a cheap Big Mac is not a sound fiscal reason.
Splain it to us RabbiHe's right. If you had bothered to take an Econ course you would understand that. Of course they don't offer Econ 101 in 4th grade, your last grade completed, so I can't blame you completely.Do you even read the English language? Walker is claiming employers will pay HIGHER wages if we remove the minimum wageDo you think workers will work for nothing out the goodness of their own hearts?Walker makes a lot of sense.......if you don't require a minimum wage, employers will pay two or three times that out of the goodness of their heartHe's being under attack for saying stuff that is completely true.
Link:
Scott Walker says he doesn t believe minimum wage serves a purpose - JSOnline
Does the min. wage serve a purpose or should companies be allowed to pay what the market dictates?
Fool.
Defend it
What economic force causes wages to go up if you drop minimum wage?
It's effectively the same thing. There is some theoretical rate that CEOs could not get paid more than.Again, if the maximum rate was below the market rate for the top job, what would be accomplished by doing that?
You don't seem to be understanding. There would be no maximum rate. There would only be a maximum disparity.
My question is what is accomplished by doing that?
The problem you have is that you don't know who the victim is.You mean, "the consequences of a worker trying to support himself (and possibly a family) by doing only work that does not create the revenue it takes to pay for it", don't you?the consequences of NOT paying anyone a living wage for working 8 hours a day.
Blaming the victim does not resolve the problem.
Corporate Welfare is the problem.
Give me sound fiscal reasons why any corporation is entitled to the benefits of subsidized employees. Your desire for a cheap Big Mac is not a sound fiscal reason.
Here is a hint. It is NOT the employee.
Give me sound fiscal reasons why any corporation is entitled to the benefits of subsidized employees.
Splain it to us RabbiHe's right. If you had bothered to take an Econ course you would understand that. Of course they don't offer Econ 101 in 4th grade, your last grade completed, so I can't blame you completely.Do you even read the English language? Walker is claiming employers will pay HIGHER wages if we remove the minimum wageDo you think workers will work for nothing out the goodness of their own hearts?Walker makes a lot of sense.......if you don't require a minimum wage, employers will pay two or three times that out of the goodness of their heart
Fool.
Defend it
What economic force causes wages to go up if you drop minimum wage?
Can you explain why there are any jobs that pay more than the minimum wage? In fact, 97% of all jobs pay more than minimum wage.
Poor Zeke. Dumb as a rock.Splain it to us RabbiHe's right. If you had bothered to take an Econ course you would understand that. Of course they don't offer Econ 101 in 4th grade, your last grade completed, so I can't blame you completely.Do you even read the English language? Walker is claiming employers will pay HIGHER wages if we remove the minimum wageDo you think workers will work for nothing out the goodness of their own hearts?
Fool.
Defend it
What economic force causes wages to go up if you drop minimum wage?
Can you explain why there are any jobs that pay more than the minimum wage? In fact, 97% of all jobs pay more than minimum wage.
3% OF THE WORK FORCE GET MINIMUM WAGE YET AN INCREASE OF A DOLLAR OR TWO WOULD CAUSE EVERYTHING TO RISE IN PRICES.
Do you understand how fucking stupid that make the MW haters sound. 3% of the lowest paid workers have all this tremendous monetary/pricing power. The ability to change the economy you all say.
Fucking that's crazy. Give the poor people a raise.
How does that work exactly?It serves a purpose. It allows politicians to give people a "raise" at someone else's expense and get re-elected.
What would happen if we just eliminated the minimum wage today? You think every employer would suddenly start paying $2/hr?
No, but they would try to keep wages where they are for a much longer period of time, which would lead to less income after inflation for everyone. .
Poor Zeke. Dumb as a rock.Splain it to us RabbiHe's right. If you had bothered to take an Econ course you would understand that. Of course they don't offer Econ 101 in 4th grade, your last grade completed, so I can't blame you completely.Do you even read the English language? Walker is claiming employers will pay HIGHER wages if we remove the minimum wage
Defend it
What economic force causes wages to go up if you drop minimum wage?
Can you explain why there are any jobs that pay more than the minimum wage? In fact, 97% of all jobs pay more than minimum wage.
3% OF THE WORK FORCE GET MINIMUM WAGE YET AN INCREASE OF A DOLLAR OR TWO WOULD CAUSE EVERYTHING TO RISE IN PRICES.
Do you understand how fucking stupid that make the MW haters sound. 3% of the lowest paid workers have all this tremendous monetary/pricing power. The ability to change the economy you all say.
Fucking that's crazy. Give the poor people a raise.
Hey, Zeke, why do you think unions constatntly push for higher min wage? You think it's because they represent "the working man"?? ROFL!
Yeah, Zeke. That's wrong. How would union membership increase by raising min wage? It wont.Poor Zeke. Dumb as a rock.Splain it to us RabbiHe's right. If you had bothered to take an Econ course you would understand that. Of course they don't offer Econ 101 in 4th grade, your last grade completed, so I can't blame you completely.
What economic force causes wages to go up if you drop minimum wage?
Can you explain why there are any jobs that pay more than the minimum wage? In fact, 97% of all jobs pay more than minimum wage.
3% OF THE WORK FORCE GET MINIMUM WAGE YET AN INCREASE OF A DOLLAR OR TWO WOULD CAUSE EVERYTHING TO RISE IN PRICES.
Do you understand how fucking stupid that make the MW haters sound. 3% of the lowest paid workers have all this tremendous monetary/pricing power. The ability to change the economy you all say.
Fucking that's crazy. Give the poor people a raise.
Hey, Zeke, why do you think unions constatntly push for higher min wage? You think it's because they represent "the working man"?? ROFL!
You really are a silly fucking rabbit.
SO go ahead rabbit, why do unions push for higher minimum wage?
Maybe they want to expand the numbers of union members. I wish they could. I wish we had the same amount of union representation that we had in the 50ties and 60ties. Back when the middle class was succeeding, growing, prospering and driving the consumer economy.
Of course, you being the white piece of trash you are have never enjoyed prosperity at any level. You a bankrupt fuck. If not actually, certainly morally.
He's being under attack for saying stuff that is completely true.
“I want jobs that pay two or three times the minimum wage,” Walker said, adding, “The way you do that is not by (setting) an arbitrary amount by the state.”
Does that mean the first-term Republican governor opposes a minimum wage on principle?
During Tuesday's meeting with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'sEditorial Board, Walker was asked to clarify his position. He didn't hesitate.
“I'm not going to repeal it,” Walker said. “But I don't think it serves a purpose because we're debating then about what the lowest levels are at. I want people to make, like I said the other night, two or three times that.”
Walker said he wants to help people get the skills they need to find careers that pay many times the current minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour.
“The jobs I focus on, the programs we put in place, the training we put in place is not for people to get minimum wage jobs,” he said.
Liberal groups and labor organizations immediately went on the attack, tearing into the governor for saying he doesn’t think the minimum wage “serves a purpose.”
First out of the box was American Bridge — a Democratic Super PAC — which had video of the quote posted before the Editorial Board had concluded.
Then Walker came under fire from his campaign foe, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. She has said she wants to raise the minimum wage in three stages to $10.10 an hour.
“Well, I disagree with it entirely,” Burke told Journal Sentinel reporter Bill Glauber in response to Walker’s comment earlier in the day. “It's important that people who are working fulltime are able to support themselves without government assistance. That's just sort of common sense.”
She said that reducing the number of people on the public dole would reduce the state budget and improve the economy, adding that many business owners she knows supporting increasing the minimum wage.
“I want to make sure people are able to have the pride of having a full-time job and supporting themselves,” Burke said.
A number of liberal websites — such as Talking Points Memo, Huffington Post and Think Progress — jumped on Walker’s comment.
Finally, a top labor official tried to take the governor to task.
“For nearly a century, American workers have relied on minimum wage protections,” said Stephanie Bloomingdale, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. “Now is not the time to take away these important laws,” she continued. “Now is the time to raise the minimum wage so that people who get up and go to work every day can have a decent standard of living.”
This is the second remark from the debate for which Walker has come under strong criticism.
In the first, the governor said, “We don’t have a jobs problem in this state. We have a work problem.”
Burke and other Democrats ripped the statement, suggesting he is ignoring the fact that Wisconsin trails other states in job growth.
Walker countered in a 30-second ad earlier this week.
He has said the statement at the debate concerned the so-called “skills gap,” the notion that good jobs in the state aren’t being filled because of a lack of trained workers.
“Mary Burke is distorting my comments on jobs,” Walker said in the commercial. “It’s no wonder. The tax-and-spend policies she supports drove out good-paying manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin.”
The two candidates for the state’s top office will square off again Friday, sparking a second round of debate — and TV ads — over what is meant and said.
Link:
Scott Walker says he doesn t believe minimum wage serves a purpose - JSOnline
Does the min. wage serve a purpose or should companies be allowed to pay what the market dictates?
How does min wage prevent people from getting taken advantage of? Are people so stupid they cannot look at two job offers and figure out which one pays more?He's being under attack for saying stuff that is completely true.
“I want jobs that pay two or three times the minimum wage,” Walker said, adding, “The way you do that is not by (setting) an arbitrary amount by the state.”
Does that mean the first-term Republican governor opposes a minimum wage on principle?
During Tuesday's meeting with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'sEditorial Board, Walker was asked to clarify his position. He didn't hesitate.
“I'm not going to repeal it,” Walker said. “But I don't think it serves a purpose because we're debating then about what the lowest levels are at. I want people to make, like I said the other night, two or three times that.”
Walker said he wants to help people get the skills they need to find careers that pay many times the current minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour.
“The jobs I focus on, the programs we put in place, the training we put in place is not for people to get minimum wage jobs,” he said.
Liberal groups and labor organizations immediately went on the attack, tearing into the governor for saying he doesn’t think the minimum wage “serves a purpose.”
First out of the box was American Bridge — a Democratic Super PAC — which had video of the quote posted before the Editorial Board had concluded.
Then Walker came under fire from his campaign foe, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. She has said she wants to raise the minimum wage in three stages to $10.10 an hour.
“Well, I disagree with it entirely,” Burke told Journal Sentinel reporter Bill Glauber in response to Walker’s comment earlier in the day. “It's important that people who are working fulltime are able to support themselves without government assistance. That's just sort of common sense.”
She said that reducing the number of people on the public dole would reduce the state budget and improve the economy, adding that many business owners she knows supporting increasing the minimum wage.
“I want to make sure people are able to have the pride of having a full-time job and supporting themselves,” Burke said.
A number of liberal websites — such as Talking Points Memo, Huffington Post and Think Progress — jumped on Walker’s comment.
Finally, a top labor official tried to take the governor to task.
“For nearly a century, American workers have relied on minimum wage protections,” said Stephanie Bloomingdale, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. “Now is not the time to take away these important laws,” she continued. “Now is the time to raise the minimum wage so that people who get up and go to work every day can have a decent standard of living.”
This is the second remark from the debate for which Walker has come under strong criticism.
In the first, the governor said, “We don’t have a jobs problem in this state. We have a work problem.”
Burke and other Democrats ripped the statement, suggesting he is ignoring the fact that Wisconsin trails other states in job growth.
Walker countered in a 30-second ad earlier this week.
He has said the statement at the debate concerned the so-called “skills gap,” the notion that good jobs in the state aren’t being filled because of a lack of trained workers.
“Mary Burke is distorting my comments on jobs,” Walker said in the commercial. “It’s no wonder. The tax-and-spend policies she supports drove out good-paying manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin.”
The two candidates for the state’s top office will square off again Friday, sparking a second round of debate — and TV ads — over what is meant and said.
Link:
Scott Walker says he doesn t believe minimum wage serves a purpose - JSOnline
Does the min. wage serve a purpose or should companies be allowed to pay what the market dictates?
I think minimum wage is essential so people don't get taken advantage of. I also don't think it should be set too high because it can just lead to prices rising.
However a look at the UK which brought in the Minimum wage in April 1999 shows that actually inflation and the value of the pound dropped far more slowly than before hand.
You post a fallacious talking point and then expect people to take it seriously enough to actually try to respond?The problem you have is that you don't know who the victim is.You mean, "the consequences of a worker trying to support himself (and possibly a family) by doing only work that does not create the revenue it takes to pay for it", don't you?the consequences of NOT paying anyone a living wage for working 8 hours a day.
Blaming the victim does not resolve the problem.
Corporate Welfare is the problem.
Give me sound fiscal reasons why any corporation is entitled to the benefits of subsidized employees. Your desire for a cheap Big Mac is not a sound fiscal reason.
Here is a hint. It is NOT the employee.
Still crickets from the right when it comes to answering this question.
Give me sound fiscal reasons why any corporation is entitled to the benefits of subsidized employees.
I doubt anyone that works for minimum wages would say that the minimum wage serves no purpose.
Anyone that makes more than minimum wage is in no position to suggest what purpose MW has on the worker that depends on minimum wage.
I make well above the minimum and I do so for one reason. If the only job someone has he skills to do pays the minimum, the problem is with them not the one doing the paying. Since those being forced to pay someone with minimum skills more than those skills are worth on the open market in many cases and labor costs affect what the rest of us that make above it pay, we very much have a say.
Someone on minimum wage that has the skills to only make that wage is the problem.
