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Chainsaw
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I am a conservative. Raising the minimum wage is wrong. The government is interfering with free markets. If a job can pay $6 an hour, then that is what the job is worth. If you as a worker do not like the job, quit. If you do not like the company, do not work there. No one has the right to get paid what they want. They get what they are willing to work for and earn.
If you support an increase of the minimum wage, remember it is your policies that force jobs overseas. Cause and effect. I wish people got this.
The sad thing is I am the only one who has made an intelligent argument here. Most of you have no clue as to what raising it would do economically. NO ONE IS FORCED TO STAY AT A JOB. Get a clue people. |
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Mariko
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Well, I think the minimum wage should be relative to where you live. In CA you can't live off of it. |
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mystique_dragon4
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Yes because housing is getting higher. They are constantly buildingnew subdidvisions here because there are a high demand on houses. |
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willie310
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well, @ least california is... |
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Sekkennight
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No! Each time the minimum wage is rased, everything else goes up.... I'd say yes if that wasn't true |
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roythead3
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No leave it alone. it helps noone and hurts everyone else.when minimum wage goes up so do the prices of everything. and most people making above minimum wage will not get an increase and will end up making less than they were relativly. its a bad idea. I am an republican but i speak my mind on every situation. |
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rexallen
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This creates a problem that a lot of working people do not understand. First, just looking at the raising of the minimum wage appears to be a good thing. However, when you look at all the other things that happens when the minimum wage goes up, it doesn't do a lot of good except for those receiving a raise. With safe guards in effect, raising the minimum wage would be okay, but without the proper safeguards, many businesses would hire less people to compensate for having to raise wages of their workforce. With America needing "GOOD" jobs, this is not the time to expect the good industrial base to have to pay for that raise. Many small businesses face this every time the minimum wage is increased. What we have seen over the last 20+ years is that the small business hire less and many increase the prices of their products, thereby eliminating any good a small raise may do. Now you tell me, if you were to get a 35 cent pay raise, but that pay raise causes the prices of everything to jump 2 cents, down the long haul, you really are not going to realize a big difference in your total yearly wages vs. expenditures. |
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mbenetx
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They did in California... |
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fearslady
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Yes, but only for full time and permanent positions. The current wages are not enough for an unskilled person to live on or get ahead. However, young workers - like high school kids-should be able to get paid a lesser rate because, well, they're not supporting families or themselves, and will hopefully move beyond minimum wage paying jobs by going to college. Whether I am conservative or liberal is irrelevant. |
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Phil S
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Of course. You cant survive on minimum wage, so it needs to raised.
Im a liberal of course. Conservatives want the poor to starve to death, even though most poor people work harder than higher paid people. |
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irish_yankee51
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Wisconsin just raised the minimum wage on June 1, 2006. |
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thuletiger56@sbcglobal.net
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Yes,I think the minimum wage should be raised but isn,t it funny that the dem,s who say they want a higher wage, killed the latest bill that the republicans put forward just before the mid-turm elections. are these people really on the side of the working man or just using us as pawns in their game. i am a republican and we work also.
Jerry R. |
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uncle billy
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yes, it's way over due, how can you expect someone to pay 3 dollars for a gallon of gas or milk when they make less than 6 dollars an hour? |
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uncle osbert
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yes. we haven't done so in a long time... inflation affects everything except that.
some states are choosing to do it, but the fed should. it is an equalizer that is periodically necessary, as demonstrated by the states already doing so. the economies in those states are also showing that it doesn't wrench the economy all out of whack.
chainsaw, you make no argument. you demonstrate a faith in the system i am incapable of. that is not the same as an argument. |
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Water's Away
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I THINK THEY SHOULD BECAUSE IN NO STATE TODAY CAN ANYONE SURVIVE ON 5.15. IT IS NOT EVEN ENOUGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. WE NEED AT LEAST 6.00 FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO PAY ONE BILL. |
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BountyJack
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Yes, many European countries minimum wages are over $12 USD. |
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Adam J
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As the inflation adjusted purchasing power of the minimum wage is at it's lowest point in a very long time and much of the economic growth that the company has experienced has failed to trickle down to lower wage brackets, then yes I think it'd be a very good idea. People shouldn't have to work multiple jobs just to be able to eat and pay the rent. |
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Answerman
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Liberal, yes I do think it should be raised. When you lift an object you lift from the bottom. Supply side economics lifts from the top and leaves every thing else behind. |
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Jay
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In almost all of the world, if you have a full-time job -- you can live comfortably.
America is one of the few exceptions. We gotta get with the program. |
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RealitySucks
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Of course because cost of living keeps going up. I hope minimum wage goes up soon. |
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[♥punk]
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well i dont have those intrest im going to be an actrees
ans a singer and a model and yes they should raise it case alot of people say it's not anuff |
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I think we should raise the minimum wage and lower the maximum wage. People crab that Walmart workers want better pay, when the new Ford CEO just got a $2 million sign-on bonus.
I'm a communitarian
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/americanleftparty/ |
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lv23smurf
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the price of every thing else is going up. so how are we sposed to pay for it when we get paid for the price of **** 5 yrs ago |
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railroad dave
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yes, should be link to congressional raises. if they think they need a raise, the minimum wage earners should get one too. they voted 6 raises in past 9 years since they last raised the minimum. |
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Chsel
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No, we have welfare. |
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Tigers Gal!
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what??? |
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gq1412@sbcglobal.net
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Thats a state by state decision since all minimum wages are different, so as a country you wouldn't be able to, |
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whore of the old testiment
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no i worked my a.ss off day after day at every crappy job to get above minimum if they just magicly raise it then it will all be for nothing |
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