Why do WaPo hire one-sided opinion writers like this?
Never mind, stupid question.
Personally, I think they should raise the minimum waget to $100 per hour. That way everyone with a job would be “rich” and we would never have poverty again. It’s so simple, really. Only liberals get it.
Man, that would be sweeeeeeet!
;-)
Do not raise the minumum anything, by any amount. On anything.
But DO start buying American.
Buy American. Bring back US jobs now.
“it would also add $25 billion to gross domestic product”
I guess it just comes from Scrooge McDuck’s vault, where it wasn’t being uesed before.
“Part of the answer,” says Gray Davis, the former governor of California who is thoughtful on these questions, “will be convincing people to pay a little bit more for things so that Americans can have jobs that pay a decent wage.”
...”thoughtful on these questions”?! Marxist on these questions, yes. Socialist on these questions, yes. His statement is astronomically lacking in common sense.
I guess the answer is making people pay more for stuff they don’t need, and go into more debt doing it.
Why not lower the minimum wage back to $1, so we can buy new cars for $1500, a new home for $12,000, milk for 20 cents a quart, and gas for 27 cents a gallon again? (KIDDING!)
Yeah, I can NOT possibly make a decent living with less than $50 per hour. Doesn't matter if I deserve it with my knowledge/skill set or if there is a need for such things or not. Who the heck define 'decent'?
In Australia, the minimum wage now tops $15, and unemployment is 5.4 percent.
There has to be other reasons for the low unemployment than the minimum wage.
The writer uses the quote, but apparently doesn't understand the implication of the word "instead".
Plus, he doesn't once address the proven positive correlation between increases in min wage and unemployment.
Liberals are so awesome, they can point out the obvious flaw in their plan, refer to it as a 'problem' to be solved, and then skip away through the flowers.. Every time you raise wages to the 'living' standard, you raise prices so it's no longer a 'living' standard. In the end, you get a whole bunch of people fired, a fair number just never even get offered a job, and a HUGE population has their standard of living reduced via inflation of prices for basic items.
How many of those who are unemployed today would be employed doing something if there were no minimum wages? Oh, and of course, liberals are working ever so hard to make illegals legal, cutting into entry level jobs (and further eroding middle class jobs) and creating a massive burden on the social services including schools.
Ahh, Grayout, you still are an utter idiot.
$10 minimum wage. To compete with $11/hour Indian tech sector workers offshore.
Yeah right.
Inflation is just a game to these people.
"The last year in which the black unemployment rate was lower than the white unemployment rate was 1930. That was also the last year in which there was no federal minimum wage law."
THOMAS SOWELL: WALTER WILLIAMS DEBUNKS POPULAR MYTHS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA
In Australia, the minimum wage now tops $15, and unemployment is 5.4 percent
So what?
You want the kid handing you your Big Mac, getting paid $15 to do that? Screw you. I would make my own burger.........
Do these people not understand that by raising the minimum wage, in this day and age will require companies to raise EVERYBODY’S pay?
If I am an office assistant with two years experience and I started at $7.25 p/h but I now make $10 p/h (due to raises), do you think I am going to be happy with the fact that the newest idiot off the street (who I have to train, develop and assist) is making the same amount?
Don’t get me wrong. I, personally, can care less what you pay anyone else. As long as the company is paying me what I feel I am worth, they can pay the janitor a one-million a year - I DON’T CARE.
But, most people today are all about comparing their pay to others pay - not to their tasks, skills, desire, attitude, etc... JUST WAGE FOR WAGE. This would literally DEVASTATE our economy!
“ratio of the minimum wage to the median wage”
Why not just lower the median wage? ;>
Also, when they compute the median wage, do they include all the zeros in that math for those on unemployment?
Well, here in the People’s Democratic Socialist Republic of Illinois, the mighty Quinn has just in fact proposed that.
Not sure but I think union contracts are based off of the minimum wage.
Let’s make the min and max wage $10/hour. Then we will all be equal like Obama wants. Equally poor.