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Minimum Wage

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_TK_
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What do you guys think about the Pres raising the minimum wage to 9 doll hairs??
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Mr.Sloth
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Ya
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deleted5
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I feel like that's a little high, but what do I know.
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clive_bixby
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Gnar
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roddy116
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Jeebus.
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I can digs it.
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roddy116
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wait, i sense a trap. its just to raise taxes?
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grapejuice3000+
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unfortunately ill always work for no pay:(

fuck being kidnapped at a young age i hate it.
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profa_212
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You win....everything...
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_TK_
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Its good while i work for minimum wage but hopefully in the future i will be employing these kind of people and at 9 dollars. shits gonna get expensive for people to sit around, like i do at my job
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clive_bixby
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SFB
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yipee more money for me at my summer job.
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BrewskiJr
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I actually don't think he should do it. Yeah you $9 an hour sounds great but you really have to take a look at the effect it has on businesses. With a higher lower wage you will see more and more companies outsourcing their supply chain. Will the jump to $9 cause a big change in this? I don't know. But its something else to think about more than just "YES! EVERYONE GETS MORE MONEY!"
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Skiingsnow
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lol, raised to $9? gotta love being aussie sometimes
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clive_bixby
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Do not like. The dollar is going down
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_TK_
Posts: 467 - Karma: 129
I agree with you on this, there is already so much out sourcing, this rise in minimum wage will only intensify it.
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Lt-Aldo-Raine
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And most labor jobs are at 10 an hour. Does this mean every, fuck dude idk this is insane, im thinking to much.
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deleted5
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Thats not true it all depends on what town/companey you're working for.
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ryano
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raising minimum wage wont do anything good.
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grown-ninja
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The things i would have done to make 9$ an hour when I was 14
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deleted5
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I was a lifeguard at that age and making way more than nine dollars an hour.
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deleted5
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And when I say way I mean about 2$
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Willgum
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Not only that, but businesses will be raising prices to try to counteract the raise.

This is an act that benefits 5.2% of the working population ( those who get paid minimum wage), yet will hurt the other 95% ( albeit not much )

But Im just a college kid making speculations, obama has a team of experts so I trust their judgement.
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Dobies.
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I don't care if they raise the minimum wage, but here is my issue with it. Take someone like me for example. I've been working at Wegmans (supermarket on east coast) for almost 6 years now. Every six months i get a .25 cent raise, which is really nice. My pay now from all those raises is somewhere around 9.65. The problem I have with raising minimum wage is some new kid can start off almost making more than me even though I have been working for 6 years.
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.ALOC.
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Minimum wage is already $9.19 in my state
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icon1234
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Gotta love that inflation.
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grown-ninja
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I thought lifeguard in ny was 16min and 15 across the country, regardless good for you but who the hell would hire a 14 year old lifeguard
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Spinoza
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Yeah lol. 10.25 here.

inb4 "but the exchange rate"
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deleted5
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town pool jr life guard and i was assistant dive coach, but i may have been 15 now that i think about it.
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PeppermillReno
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This is good. Noone should have to work for below 10 bucks an hour.

If someone doesn't want to pay that they can do the work themselves. Or hire less people.

Nice to see Obama looking out for the little guy and not the 1%.
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skiminnesota
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its really quite simple.

you wouldnt have had any job.
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deleted5
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sick logic bro that's a really good thing.
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Lt-Aldo-Raine
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Really?? See the min here is 7.25 so if youre working on a grounds crew or working a carpentry job like installing carpet or roofing youre looking at 10-12. Complete bullshit if you ask me. Even tho i hire at 10 an hour, 11 if youre good.
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PeppermillReno
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Wasn't worded well. BUt if you "need" to hire someone (as in you and you current staff can't do the work) then they deserve 10 bills an hour.

I got my pay docked from 14 to 12 when I took another job and had fewer shifts. It was some Kunta Kinte shit.
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DrZoidberg
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Hahaha

Well as a worker I'd like that, but as a business owner I'd wonder how the hell I'm going to afford that if my business isn't doing so well right now. That's assuming I'm not a greedy owner who makes a ton of money while the workers don't.
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LIL_WAT
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Oh really? What if the output of the labour is only $8? Would you prefer the job to disappear thanks to the minimum wage increasing?
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accualyisdolan
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It's true. Higher min wage will mean employers won't be able to afford as much labor. So it will hurt employment. Fuck Obama and his trash agenda
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Rafiki
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i dunno minimum wage where i live is already over $9 so....
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Aidan-G
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I am at a loss for words
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liftedresearcher
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in alberta an experienced carpenter makes over $30 an hour easily. im a 3rd year electrician and i make $29.80 an hour. there are so many jobs up here its redic, i could quit my current company and be working the next day for another. crazy labour shortage up here, its rare for someone to make minimum wage.
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Darth.Maul
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Sure I'd love it since I make minimum + tips (about $10 put together) but I think it would make a negative impact overall when it comes to businesses and hiring new people. So, for the sake of that $1.75 extra, i'll have to pass on it so that America doesn't go even further down the shitter! We need to focus on clenching the shitter walls of the Economy's butthole and dig our way out of this mess.
12 years ago
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Nieds
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Alberta's is $9.75
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fortyvalve
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I'm curious as to where everyone is getting it will increase outsourcing from. take a look at what jobs are being outsourced, those are the CSR's and basic tech jobs to name a few, but the point of outsourcing is to maximize profit, which is why they take high paying jobs and lay off workers that make 40- 50k plus a year then outsource to india or any other country and rehire entry level employees for almost less than half of that. I can't see too many of those jobs being minimum wage jobs, it's at $8.55 an hour already 45 cents is a decent raise but it's not as traumatic as its being made out to be
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eheath
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All you kids keep saying that but there are places (like utah) where its the national min which is 7.25. Thats why he raised the min wage so for people that live in states where the government are ass fucks they can make more money.
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CheddarJack
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Raise in minimum wage = inflation
Inflation = bad
Raise in minimum wage = bad
12 years ago
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BrewskiJr
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When states have a minimum wage below the federal governments minimum wage, they had to pay the higher of the two....
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salomon097
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be grateful, Pennsylvania minimum wage is 7.25 and i thought i was doing okay making 8.50....hopefully if this happens i will be making ~9.50
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roor
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utah is very cheap place to live. Raising the minimum wage would make housing, school and crunchy tacos much more expensive. I dont know about you but i like living in a house in slc for 400 a month when a comparable house in Boston is 800. why dont you take your change and go to an east coast school and see if 2 dollars more an hour makes up for the tuition difference for in state.
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WakaShocka
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Wut?
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eheath
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Minimum wage has no connection to tuition. Yes its cheap to live in SLC but a single mother with 2-3 kids living on 7.25/hr is awful. Just a random example. Min wage always goes up with inflation just how the world works
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Mr.LemonPie
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If Walmart raised their prices at an average of approx. .50 per order (not item, over the whole order) they could pay their staff 12.00 an hour. An extra 1.50 an hour for staff can hurt some businesses, but most would be able to handle it. Obviously I'm not an economist or anything, but it seems pretty easy if Walmart could pay so much more by doing so little.
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