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Minimum wage

Salty

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Let me share this somewhat story of fiction. (Note: figures used are only for examples only)

You get your first job just out during you senior year of high school! You start with minimum wage of $5.00!
After 4 months of probation, including not missing more than 3 days of work - you are given a 25 cent pay raise. After 2 more months of good work - another 25 cent raise - so now you are at $5.50. At the 9 month mark - you now make $6.00. After one year - you are promoted to Asst Shift manager - which raises your pay to $6.75. Now, three months later - on 1 Jan, the new law requires a minimum wage of $7.00 an hour.
Wait, the $7 you are making after a full year of hard work - is what that new kid will make on his first day on the job! Is that Fair? Or will the boss NOT hire that new kid- because of the other 6 people hired in the past 9 months who were making about $5.50 or so - are now all making $7 an hour. So the Boss cannot afford to hire anyone new - at least for now. Which means that all current employess must do more work - to make up for that individual that the boss did not hire.
And BTW - you do realize that for every dollar of pay raise you get - will cost the boss about $1.25!

So lets have a good discussion about the minimum wage.
 

Alcott

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Since there's nothing to verify purgatory, sin has no minimum wage, unless it's living in this lousy world.
 

just-want-peace

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This type of problem just verifies my sig line:

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

Obviously (more & more evident daily!) the more we depart from "moral & religious" the more problems we encounter!!
 

Salty

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This type of problem just verifies my sig line:

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

Obviously (more & more evident daily!) the more we depart from "moral & religious" the more problems we encounter!!


Some would say raising the minimum wage is a moral issue.

Suppose the minium wage was currently $2 an hour - and an employer only paid that $2 - would that be moral with today prices?
 

just-want-peace

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Wages are a “contract” between one person and another/ or a business. No one has to accept for either side if not satisfied with the terms. In a “moral & religious society” there should be no problem with agreement.
When gov’t gets involved, all bets are off, as they (gov’t) will screw up everything (95% at least) they try to get involved in.
Reagan was correct (least I think it was him) when he said “Gov’t can’t solve the problem. Gov’t IS the problem”
 
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