On 4/15/15 1:49 PM, Lew Hodgett wrote:
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Now, the $15 an hour folks want the most menial jobs, the jobs
with the least skill level, the jobs that provided by employers
that suffer all those that come and go as first time employees to
be paid a "livable" wage. Regardless of their work history (if
any), skill level, employment history or lack thereof, an employer
will be required to pay almost double what they are paying now for
minimum wage employees.
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If a job has to be done, then it deserves a living wage to get it
done.

Not all entry level jobs are done by pimple faced kids looking for
some pocket money.

Many of these people earning a minimum wage are trying to support a
family unit which isn't going to happen at $10/hr much less the
$7.50/hr federal minimum wage.

If the $15/hour minimum wage gets enacted it will raise the standard
of living of the whole economy except for the top 1% which will be
asked to pay for it.

It's just Reagan's "Trickle Down Economics" in reverse.

Reagan's "Trickle Down Economics" have proven to be a disaster
unless you are in the top 1%.

A $15/hr minimum wage will help the economy recover from the TDE of
the last 30 years.

Off the box.

Lew


The only place that works is in Fantasyland.
What happens when burger flippers start making $15/hr?
Every skilled/educated laborer is going to require more because they
don't "deserve" (your word) to make the same as someone doing what a
trained monkey could do.

That raises the price of everything and all of a sudden, $15/hr buys the
same as $7.50/hr did and we start the whole process over.


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