Actual minimum wage is ZERO.....Tha comes from NOT working.
Personal minimum wage is the wage of whatever job you accept. If you want more, then apply for the higher paying job. If you aren’t qualified, then get more education and qualify yourself...Don’t look for a handout....
Isn’t Government control of a minimum wage, a form of Government Wage Control?
If that is true, then is Government Wage Control a form of Private Business Control?
Since few in Government have ever worked for a wage in a Private Business, are we not allowing the ignorant and incompetent in Government to control Private Businesses?
Consider the fact that Private Businesses employ the vast majority of Americans, and we have a situation where we vote in the incompetent Government politicians to control how most of us make a living.
It is time, - - - time for a change in 2014.
I notice that the author does not address government’s interference in the labor market via flooding the country with aliens, legal and illegal, permanent and temporary. Many are from countries where big government is the way of life and are comfortable working at wages that leave them dependent upon government handouts. The employer now gets to pass part of the cost of labor onto the taxpayer. This model is used across all levels of employment.
Wages respond to supply and demand.
We wouldn’t need a minimum wage if EVerify were the law of the land, US citizens got available jobs, and there were negative economic consequence to shifting jobs overseas. As things stand now, there’s unfair competition for available jobs which unfairly sabotages the supply and demand curve.
Not only is a minimum wage increase popular, but Hispanic voters especially support it. With the ranks of Hispanic voters growing rapidly, further increases in the minimum wage are inevitable. So why should conservatives and the GOP be willing to suffer needless political damage from opposing such increases?
So here is a mischievous suggestion: tell the Chamber of Commerce and the cheap labor and amnesty lobby that unless they can decisively change public opinion on the minimum wage in the next six weeks, in order to appeal to Hispanic voters, conservatives and the GOP will this summer endorse and campaign on a substantial increase in the minimum wage, along with stricter enforcement.
And, by the way, such a measure will also discourage illegal immigration by pricing illegals out of the jobs that attract them.