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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
I don't agree with alot of the details you mentioned, but on the big issue we agree.
Raise minimum wage and get rid of tax subsidies that are used to supplement low wages.
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Listen you have to give and take. You can't ask business that in 2006 were paying $5.15 and hour to pay $10.50 an hour in 2010. You'll never get support for that. If you give business a tax break in exchange for higher minimum wage you'll get broad support for it.
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I don't see the point in having a minimum wage if it's not set above the poverty level anyways. They should jack it up, and then tie it to inflation so it readjusts automatically, and then never have to mess with it again.
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Many states do have minimum wages that adjust yearly. Florida enacted on a few years back. It make sense and make it easier on workers AND businesses. A business KNOWS a raise is coming each year and knows how much it is. And it's not a very large increase and he's better able to absorb it. Instead he PRAYS for the minimum wage to never go up which is eventually does and because it's been 10 years it's goes WAY up and then he's fucked because he'll have a hard time absorbing the cost. I feel that if youa re willing to pull in a full days work you should get a decent wage even if your job is considered "unskilled". Face it, we all think flipping burgers at McDonald's is easy, yet most of us woudn't take that job even or $50 an hour. I think there's something to be said for compensating people for doing the grunt work no one else would do.