The Case for a Higher Minimum Wage

[Sousuke 1,214]

Or they cut the labor force by10%

Given most businesses are running bare bone with maximum profit I doubt it.

Where did you read that?

Companies don't like decrease revenue and income year to year. If they spend an extra 10% of labor, you can be sure they will raise the price by 10%.

Minimum wage is total bs. It's for high school kids. Anybody over 18 that worries about minimum wage should have gotten a better education. Nobody with a college degree earns minumum wage.

Why should I have to pay for their laziness and stupidity?

In NYC, the new mayor (white guy with a black wife and Al Sharpton's staff work with them) has a campaign to fight income inequality... I wonder where that came from...

I'll be paying for that too in the form of higher taxes because my salary is over some predetermined amount. So the fact I pay about 40% in taxes now is not enough to cover all the welfare cases and deadbeats. They will probably make it 45% next year.

If they want a higher income, go to college and grad school, and then you'll make a higher income. But that's too much of an effort for most deadbeats, they just want a free handout. Please don't anybody post about educational opportunities not be available to everybody. That's the biggest load of #######. Everybody who wants to CAN go to college.

True or False. Labor prices are 100% the price of a product.

Edited February 12, 2014 by Brown Dwarf

[Merrytooth 5,748]

why set prevailing wage when there are foreigners willing to work $12/hour for H1B visa?

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/480300-prevailing-wage-help/#entry6817169

Edited February 12, 2014 by Merrytooth

[Pooky 3,781]

why set prevailing wage when there are foreigners willing to work $12/hour for H1B visa?

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/480300-prevailing-wage-help/#entry6817169

So that employers can save $2 on the wage and the cost of a visa per employee?

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

why set prevailing wage when there are foreigners willing to work $12/hour for H1B visa?

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/480300-prevailing-wage-help/#entry6817169

That guy won't get the visa, though. Proof of prevailing wage is one of the reqs.

[Eric-Pris 1,606]

Right? Those stupid, lazy single Moms working two minimum wage jobs trying to make ends meet so they can feed their kids should be shipped off to some foreign land. They don't have the right to breathe the same air we do.

Once again, if they had gotten an education, they wouldn't have to work 2 jobs to make ends meet. And they probably wouldn't be single mothers, unless by choice.

Edited February 12, 2014 by Eric-Pris

[mota bhai 2,675]

We need to create suicide points on our major bridges and take anyone who hasn't made more than minimum wage in the last 5 years there and PUSH. To keep it humane, we'll only do it when the water is extremely cold so death shall be swift.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Once again, if they had gotten an education, they wouldn't have to work 2 jobs to make ends meet. And they probably wouldn't be single mothers, unless by choice.

This might be one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

[Sousuke 1,214]

We need to create suicide points on our major bridges and take anyone who hasn't made more than minimum wage in the last 5 years there and PUSH. To keep it humane, we'll only do it when the water is extremely cold so death shall be swift.

If the state simply allowed assisted suicide, more people would kill themselves thus lowering available labor and driving up labor cost. /sarcasm

Edited February 12, 2014 by Brown Dwarf

[mota bhai 2,675]

If the state simply allowed assisted suicide, more people would kill themselves thus lowering available labor and driving up labor cost. /sarcasm

My guess is most people who voluntarily commit suicide were probably unemployable to begin with. Mental defectives, mostly.

[Pooky 3,781]

My guess is most people who voluntarily commit suicide were probably unemployable to begin with. Mental defectives, mostly.

How do you commit involuntary suicide?

[GandD 5,966]

Very carefully??

Given most businesses are running bare bone with maximum profit I doubt it.

Yeah they are.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Where did you read that?

Companies don't like decrease revenue and income year to year. If they spend an extra 10% of labor, you can be sure they will raise the price by 10%.

Minimum wage is total bs. It's for high school kids. Anybody over 18 that worries about minimum wage should have gotten a better education. Nobody with a college degree earns minumum wage.

Why should I have to pay for their laziness and stupidity?

In NYC, the new mayor (white guy with a black wife and Al Sharpton's staff work with them) has a campaign to fight income inequality... I wonder where that came from...

I'll be paying for that too in the form of higher taxes because my salary is over some predetermined amount. So the fact I pay about 40% in taxes now is not enough to cover all the welfare cases and deadbeats. They will probably make it 45% next year.

If they want a higher income, go to college and grad school, and then you'll make a higher income. But that's too much of an effort for most deadbeats, they just want a free handout. Please don't anybody post about educational opportunities not be available to everybody. That's the biggest load of #######. Everybody who wants to CAN go to college.

I see that you will be pledging the liberal team. Oh I love it

This might be one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

that was not even close

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Too many people go to college and get jobs that don't require college degrees. I think almost all mail carriers have college degrees but their job does not require it. We should not suggest everyone go to college, but work to build better apprentice programs and trade schools and pay people who want to do those jobs a living wage. We need janitors in this world.

If most postal workers have degrees, that means they are grossly over paid and the benefits are way to lucrative.

Is the post office in financial trouble ?

Of course because businesses that operate like that without govt subsidies fail.

Or as in GM's case get bailed out by the taxpayers.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I see that you will be pledging the liberal team. Oh I love it

that was not even close

Strange you would call him a liberal, when democrats are fighting for minimum wage increases, and repubs are against it. Strange you would call him a liberal, when he is describing how the free market fixes everything, which is what conservatives think.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Where did you read that?

Companies don't like decrease revenue and income year to year. If they spend an extra 10% of labor, you can be sure they will raise the price by 10%.

Minimum wage is total bs. It's for high school kids. Anybody over 18 that worries about minimum wage should have gotten a better education. Nobody with a college degree earns minumum wage.

Why should I have to pay for their laziness and stupidity?

In NYC, the new mayor (white guy with a black wife and Al Sharpton's staff work with them) has a campaign to fight income inequality... I wonder where that came from...

I'll be paying for that too in the form of higher taxes because my salary is over some predetermined amount. So the fact I pay about 40% in taxes now is not enough to cover all the welfare cases and deadbeats. They will probably make it 45% next year.

If they want a higher income, go to college and grad school, and then you'll make a higher income. But that's too much of an effort for most deadbeats, they just want a free handout. Please don't anybody post about educational opportunities not be available to everybody. That's the biggest load of #######. Everybody who wants to CAN go to college.

What does his wife and Al Sharpton have to do with any of this?