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get rid of the minimum wage. why isn't there a minium price for a medium sized grapefruit? both are commodities to be traded.
get rid of welfare. then there are no decisions on "how hard/much to work". Let private charities deal with those who can't work. I'd gladly give the portion of my taxes being wasted on welfare to private orgs (and it would likely require a much smaller amount). Of course, the odds of this ever happening is nigh unto 1 chance in an avagadros number.
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how many wards can't even handle their own charity needs? a lot.
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We packed two vans to the brim with the Bishop's Storehouse run this month. I guarantee you our branch doesn't even remotely get close to covering the price tag for this from internal fast offerings.
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I remember working as a lube tech in high school at Pennzoil when minimum wage in California first went up 10-12 years ago. I had been working my ass off for the better part of a year and earned a few nickel and dime pay raises along the way to the point where I was making a bit more than minimum wage. Then they raised wages and I only made a nickel more an hour over minimum wage and they wouldn't raise me the difference. They hired two new guys that next summer at minimum wage. I had been there a year and I was training these guys making $0.05 more an hour than them. So I quit.
I don't think there should be any minimum wage. Let the market determine that as Brian suggested.
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The best solution is to make workers worth more, which is not the same thing as paying them more. We're not sure how to make them worth more.
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we don't. we're trying to determine the factors that correlate with success so we can determine how the government can expand opportunity to more people. you keep making oversimplistic, dichotomous statements.
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