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Originally Posted by sgtdmski  Just because the minimum wage has not increased does not mean that wages have not gone up. Unless you understand the function of the minimum wage you should not complain about its stagnation. Every time the minimum wage has been raised it has hurt those who need jobs the most, those with little or no skills.
| Sorry sgt, that bull. The only ones it would hurts is the companies that have to pay more. These jobs still need to be filled and they will be filled, just with a better rate of pay. Quote:
Originally Posted by sgtdmski Consider this, of the 74 million workers who are paid hourly wages, only 520,000 earn the minimum wage. Which means that less than 1% of the working population. Of this only 5% are below the poverty line whereas 40% have incomes higher than $60,000. | Your actually trying to claim that only 5% of the 1%(that you claim are recieving Minimum wage) are below the poverty line? So basicly your saying they all live at home with their parents unless they are illegal immigrants?
How would raising the minimum wage not allow unskilled workers to still get thier foot in the door? The current minimum wage equals legal slave labor!
Let the cheap bastards that have money pay more money, or find an honest line of work, if that doesn't suit their profit margin. Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
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