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Originally Posted by GrantMercury
hate the idea of paying workers more???
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GM, what if you are wrong and it simply causes companies to hire LESS employees at the starter level?
The only people who make minimum wage are folks just getting started at a job. It's not like a good worker is working the same job for minimum wage year after year after year (a shitty, non-productive worker might).
Most folks work their way UP the ladder.
But I'll say it again because you are so full of hatred you don't even have an open mind to consider other viewpoints: Why would you or I hire a teenager for their first job of unskilled labor at $9 an hour???
Answer: We wouldn't. For that kind of money coming out of my pocket I'm not going to hire ANY unskilled kid that is new to the workforce and trying to get their first job. In this fucked up economy with a high jobless rate already, I'm going to choose and pick an older person with experience.
That is an unintended consequence of raising the minimum wage. Teens, uneducated people. Latinos, and young black men already can't find jobs. Now you're going to price it completely away for them?
Don't you think we should be CREATING job opportunity? Why isn't our govt. focused on THAT?