Should minimum wage be 20 bucks an hour?

[Kingofkings1992]

Yes

No

[Goforit1010]

Oh heck, why stop at $20/hr. Let's make it $50/hr. Oh wait, no... $100/hr! That should be enough to live on!

Do y'all see what's going on? I mean, seriously! The higher you raise the minimum wage, the higher other wages have to be. Are you as the business owner, going to pay total noobs, who only show up half the time, $20/hr, while the lady who's been faithfully coming to work daily for the past 3 years is only making $21.50? And she started out at $15/hr!

I said this a few years ago. Raising the minimum wage is stupid on its face. All you end up doing is inflating the price of EVERYTHING! Ultimately, money has zero value for a thousand dollars 💵 or even more! Rent costs increase, the cost of a fast food meal rises exponentially! The cost of housing, transportation, school, food, you name it, goes up and up with zero gain for those who are wanting that increase.

Minimum wage was NEVER, EVER meant as a living wage. It was meant for those people entering the work arena. A starting point for those with ZERO experience in a particular job. A minimum level ALL businesses were forced to give for those at the lowest end of the work totem pole.

[Twalli]

It raises prices, but not at the rate that the minimum wage increases, it actually increases prices by a negligible amount in relation to the wage amount. It was designed to provide a minimum standard of living without excessively curtailing employment. The fact that almost every company pays more than the federal limit, shows that the federal wage floor is too low for anyone to agree to work for that little.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Thing is those things don't have to increase just because wages which are pathetically low to begin with nor at the same rate wages increases as Twalli said.

It's the greed that's killing America.

[Goforit1010]

@Hispanic-Cool-Guy - It may be greed, but nonetheless, when you're doubling the minimum wage from $8.50 to $15 and then push another stupid increase to $20, that $$ has to come from somewhere. The cost of that fast food meal went from about $6 to now it's nearly $11! Add in another min wage increase and we'll be paying $15 for that $6 Big Mac meal.

[Twalli]

Most of the increase in prices comes from inflation which is not a minimum wage increase.

[Goforit1010]

@Twalli - Did it ever occur to you that a minimum wage increase causes inflation?

[Twalli]

It does, but inflation happens regardless of a minimum wage increase. So most increases in price have not come from a hike in the minimum wage, and the increase in prices we see from an increase in the minimum wage is small in % in relation to the minimum wage increase.

[Chazmatazz269]

The minimum wage should be a living wage. This means that one person working full time at a given wage can fully support themselves without assistance. This varies between states and communities. The cost of living in San Francisco, California is like twelve times that of Paducah, Kentucky. The minimum wage doesn’t necessarily need to be the same in those two communities. Every single person who works full time and contributes to the economy deserves a living wage though. Not only that, but it’s vital to the economy.

[Twalli]

It wasn't designed to be a living wage.

[Chazmatazz269]

You are grossly mistaken. When the minimum wage was first enacted as part of a package to protect workers from unfair employment practices, twenty five cents an hour was an adequate living wage on a full time income. At no time during the debates and deliberations of the Fair Labor Act did any number of congress members unilaterally suggest that the minimum wage isn’t intended to be a living wage. I defy you to prove otherwise. That’s just some ignorance people who don’t really understand our history, the economy and labor laws say to justify the financial oppression of others, primarily for the sake of keeping the unproductive wealthy elite getting richer while productive working class citizens literally go hungry and die of easily preventable illness. Feel free to not comment on my posts with such ignorance in the future.

[Twalli]

I wrote a 20-page paper discussing the minimum wage. Besides, you didn't really refute my point. I did not say that the minimum wage cannot be a living wage. I said that it doesn't have to be. People could live on the minimum wage as it was when it was passed. It was not a living wage then, even in 2016, when a living wage here was about $12-$15 per hour an increase to $10.10 would have solved the problem. Really it should have been tied to the CPI long ago, but Congress doesn't care about that.

[WindAtMyBack]

Hell no. I won't even give an economic reason, even though there are plenty to go around.

The main reason is the same reason why parents shouldn't give their kids everything they want. It spoils them.

WTF!
Everyone wants everything for free. Get out there and work and stop whining. Learn the value of money. Learn where it comes from and what it represents. People don't value what's given to them without putting in some effort to get it.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Depends the city, town and state you are living in.

I live in Miami and the medium wage here the way things are and the expenses the minimum wage here should be around $18 an hour to live decently and comfortably.

In New York City and L. A. it should be around $24 an hour because it's expenses to live in those areas.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

*expensive

[Twalli]

The minimum wage isn't designed to allow someone to live decently and comfortably.

[Twalli]

Although it is important to mention that wages in different states should be set based on the price of living there. The price of living in most of California is a lot more than in Virginia, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, etc.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

@Twalli: If you work full time then that means you should get a livable wage which translates to living a decent life and not struggling to pay your basic needs.

[Kingofkings1992]

Sorry cool guy, but no one is owed a living wage just because they work. If you’re 30 years old working at Taco Bell, you have obviously failed at life. That’s no one else’s fault but your own. If you need a living wage, you should have a better job figured out. Minimum wage is not about living decently and comfortably. It’s about entering the workforce and having some work experience.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Life isn't black and white. Taco Bell or a gas station or any menial labor is irrelevant.

The point is if you are willing to work full time then you are entitled to be paid what's fair and decent for your labor, not trying to screw someone over with low wages. It's wicked and exploition.

[Guy13]

You need to travel in a bad way and realize you are living in an internment camp and in a credit card.

It’s time for you to curtail your cooking habits and lose wait anyway. Happy New Year 🎉🍸🥂

[Kingofkings1992]

Sorry don’t understand your English

[Anonymous]

Might as well, by 2030 tye currencies will collapse for a WEF enacted social credit system

You will own nothing and be happy

Assets of ANY form or description will be banned from citizens ownership and the citizens will become slaves with anyone unemployed for any reason executed for being a drain on resources

[DarkWinterNights]

Haven’t had enough inflation yet? Maybe we should focus on the actual reasons why people can’t even afford a starter home at $30/hour. Why cars cost as much as a house did 20 years ago and why we’re paying $3-6/gal for fuel.

[jshm2]

There should be a living wage instead.

But an employer should use their fucking head and pay their staff what they are worth. Instead of relying on the government to rinse it out of them

[Twalli]

It should be a lot higher than it is, but not that high. It's not a living wage.

[Anonymous]

The problem is that prices rise

[joeldalton]

There should be no such thing as a minimum wage.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely.