Quote:You ever lived on that wage? Saying that you don't come across as a tertiary educated guy. You one of those who has just been well trained by the media to accept a crappy wage and vote against your own/the majority interest?

 

You're not supposed to live on minimum wage.  You're supposed to get your foot on the bottom rung of the ladder and learn something about working and about life in general.   People who advocate raising the minimum wage don't seem to realize, they are just raising up the bottom rung of the ladder to the point where fewer people will be able to get on it.   If you raise the cost of basic labor, you give a powerful incentive for business owners to find alternatives that are cheaper.  And that means fewer people will be able to reach the bottom rung of the ladder. 

 

You think minimum wage earners are voting in their own interest when they vote to raise the minimum wage?   They're not.   They're voting to eliminate their own jobs.  

 

At $7.25 per hour, I might hire a young guy to sweep out my warehouse, and while he's there, he might watch how we do the shipping and receiving, and work his way up if he's sharp enough.  Or he might decide warehouse work sucks and decide to enroll in community college and get a better set of skills.   But at $15.00 an hour, no way I hire someone to do that.  I figure out some other way to keep the warehouse clean.   And that young guy sits on his  behind at home or hangs out with his friends who are also unemployed.  

 

It's an absolute fact that if you raise the cost of something, you decrease demand for it.   That's why raising the minimum wage eliminates jobs.  

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