Min Wage????????

[aTUfan]

Yahoo Finance
Massachusetts on Wednesday is the latest state expected to usher in a higher minimum wage, as its House votes on a State Senate-approved bill that would increase the rate from $8 an hour to $11 by 2017.

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Some are advocating for a $15.00 min. wage.

Min wage was never meant to be a living wage. It is for Entry level, Inexperienced, unproven employees.

Not every job is worth $15.00/hr, and
not every employee is worth $15.00/hr.

If you want to make more; get some experience, get some training, . . .. Make yourself special and stand out and valuable to the company.

If you have to pay the dummy who just walked in the door $15.00, how much do you then have to pay the guy you trained and is now making $12.00/hr, or $15.00 , or ...?


Min wage requirements make it so that everyone gets the same. Individual effort and excellent workmanship isn't important.
That's Communism

If we must have a min wage, how about we also have a Max wage?
even better, everyone just gets paid the same, reguardles of effort or produceion.



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[noble cane]

What I cant figure out is this... if $15/hr is a good minimum wage, wouldn't $50/hr or $100/hr be better? Why stop at $15?

 

[aTUfan]

That's why I got a degree. I wanted to earn more than min wage
And get benefits.

 

[rabidTU]

It shouldn't be the govts responsibility to dictate to companies how much they "must" pay a worker. Workers aren't orphaned children who need a parent. If the govt can force a minimum wage, they can force a maximum wage. Then you have true socialism/communism.

A person doesn't have to work for any company that pays them too little. The are a free person who should be grown up enough to make their own career decisions and plot their own future wo the help of big brother or aunt Nanny.

Any govt that can "give" you whatever they want has the power to take away whatever they want.

 

[WATU2]

At the risk of posting information instead of hyperventilated opinion.....



Who makes the minimum wage?

 

[lawpoke87]

Looking at that graph the current minimum wage looks inline as far as purchasing power with the minimum wage over the past 60 plus years. Surprised me as I would have thought the opposite based on the attempts to substantially raise the same.

I support a minimum wage as I do believe certain employers would take advantage of the uneducated and unskilled in a tight jobs market. Keeping the wage at it's 60 years average or tying it to inflation seems like a good compromise. Hiking it from it's current level to $15 is unreasonable imo. Employers who pay more will attract better workers.

 

[rabidTU]

The question really is "who should be paid more?" For instance is a burger flipper at Burger King worth the same salary as a finished carpenter? Is a floor sweeper worth as much as a plumber? Does a dishwasher at a resauraunt have the same value as a gourmet cook there? Is a bank teller worth the same as the bank manager?

You see, the problem is when the govt decides who makes more or even who should make the same, there is still inequality. For instance, should the bricklayer who lays 3 bricks per minute be paid the same as another that lays 6? And should a beginning bricklayer make the same as the one who is teaching him? The govt would probably look at both as just bricklayers - thus paid equally. But the work isn't equal. This is why socialism never works in the long run. Communism as well.

Anyone for a Yugo?

IMO

 

[aTUfan]

I saw a guy sitting in a chair on a street corner holding
a sign for the pizza hut.

Is this job worth $15.00/hr or $7.00/hr
or $5.00/hr? . . .
or min wage, whatever that is





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This post was edited on 7/1 12:08 PM by aTUfan