Quote:Working in various jobs every time minimum wage was increased never once did I (who was making more then minimum wage in each job) get an increase. So that's not how it's worked in the past. I remember when the minimum wage went from $5.15 to $7.27 or something like that I was making almost $8 an hour, my pay didn't go up not one penny. All of the sudden the ground I had gained over 3 years on that job was for nothing, I was barely making $1 over minimum wage.

You are missing the point Eric. If wages had gone up in alignment with worker productivity, profits, and cost of living than this would not be an issue. The low wages earners would have kept getting more because wage increases would keep occurring and there would be a need for a huge jump in minimum wage. The reason you guys are freaking out about this is because it's several dollars per hour. It is only this way because employers have not naturally raised wages and the minimum has been raised in proportion or at all with the factors I previously mentioned.  

 

I know you understand this but it does not fit with your pay as low as possible libertarian beliefs. 

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