The House voted to raise the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour in the next 3 years but the Senate rejected it.
We can all breathe a sigh of relief. Before you get upset let me explain it this way.... What are You willing to pay for a burger at your favorite fast food establishment? $3, $4, $5, $6 or more? IF the minimum wage gets raised so will EVERYTHING else!!
Its dumb for me to even have to explain this but minimum wage will never over take the higher paying jobs!
Minimum wage will never be enough to raise a Family on which was one of the arguments used to raise it.
Should someone in high school or anyone else for that matter make that much working at an entry level position? Of course not.
The only winner here is the government, higher prices more tax revenue.
If you really want this economy to take off and control inflation lower the wage or keep it as is and let the market dictate whats paid.
By raising the minimum wage all it does is decrease the value of the dollar even more.
As much as I didn't want the minimum wage raised there was other issues attached that also didn't pass which is unfortunate.
The others were, a permanent cut in the estate tax and extend tax breaks for business research, college tuition and state sales tax.
The Democrats complained that the Republicans played politics by attaching other bills to the minimum wage raise and should of had a straight up and down vote instead. Though that may be true, the Republicans were still willing to compromise but the Democrats not willing to allow tax breaks defeated the wage hike.
Just remember this when you go to the polls in November.
Carey K. Masci
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find it interesting when most republicans speak against minimum wage they state the obvious, that most americans dont earn minimum wage.
What you fail to forget is when you raise minimum wage wages across the board go up, it happened last time and it will happen the next time.
Many jobs use their starting wage vs minimum wage as a selling point to attract employees.
This is kind of a slight of hand because even $7.00+ is not enough to live on in MOST parts of the U.S.A .
The question I have is what is so wrong with someone who actually works earning enough to live on?
Many conservatives will say that min-wage is just a starting point, that one should use that job to learn skills and move up, but there are 2 flaws to this arguement.
1. even if one tried this his/her odds are against them, to many things can go wrong, someone is more likely to loose his/her job because of car trouble being unable to save money to move up and become a better employee.
2. this way of thinking fails to concider that many people are starting over be it divorce, outsourcing, or just a screwed up economy.(like any number of people who live in factory towns inwhich their father and grandfather worked in the same factory).
Is it any wonder why conservatives are viewed as heartless?
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