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Who here is affected by the minimum Wage increase?

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Trauma-san:

--- Quote from: -S on January 15, 2007, 08:43:46 PM ---Me  :raisetheroof:

I'm 16 and looking for a job right now.

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So are you actually making minimum wage, or you just anticipate you will be?  I'd bet money you could find a job pretty easily making more than minimum wage, if you're worth a shit. 

Teddy Roosevelt:
Well right now I'm making $8.00 an hour. In 2008 that will be California's minimum wage (currently $7.50 I think), but I don't see me working this job that long.

Trauma-san:
I'm just trying to build a case here that raising the minimum wage doesn't help anybody but Union officials, who have their union contracts tied to the minimum wage. 

Ant:

--- Quote from: Trauma-san on January 16, 2007, 05:33:13 PM ---I'm just trying to build a case here that raising the minimum wage doesn't help anybody but Union officials, who have their union contracts tied to the minimum wage. 

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Well it obviously helps anyone making min. wage that receives the bump without being laid off :)

But at what cost to the rest of us?  Min. wage is very clearly a net negative policy measure.  And it often hurts the poor more than anyone else.

7even:
raising the minimum wage can also increase unemployment and illegal employment.

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