No matter what is legislated, our Minimum Wage will ALWAYS be $0.
Timeframe doesn’t matter: $0/hour, $0/week, $0/year.
We have states with zero minimum wage Mississippi, lousiana, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee.
On the other hand the lowest average salary in the United States is Mississippi! Not shocking really.
When businesses are granted the right via government to pay a minimum they all will do so...
The minimum wage is the tool of the self-fulfilling opinion that the government needs to regulate wages. The labor market distortions that the minimum wage helps foster INSURES the condition that no minimum wage is ever enough - thus the policy (cure??) helps perpetuate its need. Any new minimum wage when proposed is trying to help “solve” conditions that prior minimum wages were part of creating.
Those always hurt the most are those at the lowest end of the wage scale with the least education, least skills and least experience. The minimum wage permits/forces the logical action of hiering whoever with the most education, most skill and most experience will work for the minimum wage.
The minimum wage helps increase the permanently unemployed, by continually pricing them out of the labor market.
Its a GREAT policy when your goal is to try to insure the government plantation society - folks that cannot live without government assistance - never lacks for folks it must serve.
Those 6 countries might not have a min wage but they have free healthcare, free college and other benefits we do not have.
Regarding so-called U.S. national minimum wage, patriots are reminded that, regardless of politically correct interpretations of Congress’s very limited Commerce Clause powers, the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to regulate labor wages, including minimum wage.
In fact, not only had 19th century, state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices emphasized the already clear meaning of the Commerce Clause, but Justice Joseph Story had used “the wages of labor” as an example of a power that the Commerce Clause does not give to Congress.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments [emphases added]." —"Justice Joseph Story, Commerce Clause (1.8.3), 1833.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Patriots who would appreciate a minimum wage please note that there is nothing stopping a given state from making its own minimum wage laws, ultimately depending on what the legal majority voting citizens of a given state want.
In fact, consider Justice Brandeis had volunteered his “laboratories of democracy” metaphor that each state was free to experiment with things like minimum wage (my words), depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
The bottom line is that many lawmakers of the desperate Democrat-controlled Congress need to lose their jobs under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment imo for repeatedly passing legislation based on constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers.
"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [emphasis added], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Additionally, politically correct federal departments that deal with INTRAstate labor issues need to be eliminated.
The UK diidn’t have a minimum wage until 1999.
Raising the minimum wage during a jump in unemployment and an inflationary reaction to the pandemic when businesses are shut down and supplies are decreased, is a huge mistake. It is going to hammer businesses all over the country.
But getting rid of the minimum wage, at state level, is not the answer. It kind of reverts back to the old saying, “If you can’t raise the bridge, lower the river.
The reason minimum wage is a problem is because of how it is applied. Professionals don’t work for the minimum. And minimum per business should be different.
So, here’s how to do it:
You don’t use minimum wage on all people coming into a business. You have minimum wage for part time staff that work after school and those that wrap your packages at Christmas time with the intent of its worth. And you create a entry level wage for those skilled in the areas you need anywhere from security staff to new vice president, both at worth levels.
And you take out the federal law that says an employee can be paid the lowest wage available from any of the states you do business in.
An example in Washington state is Walmart. In 1995 when I went to work for them the state minimum was $4.90. Arkansas was $4.75. They employees got Arkansas wages even though the local determination was 15 cents an hour higher. Walmart’s main offices are in Bentonville. In some states it was very noticeable like Hawaii and New Mexico. It does all add up in time. And don’t get me started on their stock scam.
But don’t unprotect lower level workers and pay skilled what they’re worth. Bullying the states into committing too much creates unemployment and too little for highly skilled positions chases them out of state and costs companies their businesses. Let the market create the need. And vote in intelligent people, not panderers.
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lefturd loons don’t care about common sense. They have to force minimum wage laws so that they can feel good inside because they have “done something”
The right minimum wage: 0.00
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/14/opinion/the-right-minimum-wage-0.00.html
These nations don’t have very high immigration that drives the wages down.
Also, they have very good education systems where 2+2=4.
And last, they tend to be smaller countries.
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