re: Progressives have a new minimum wage goal: $20 and up

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Why should high school kids with no skills, getting there first job deserve your "living" wage?

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Presumable said high school kid is a dependent in this scenario? If so their living wage would be whatever them and their employer agreed upon. Minimum wage requires an employer to pay that same kid the same thing they would a person who was not someone else's dependent. My initial and subsequent responses to this thread have stated that minimum wages are a bad idea and should be eliminated.

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If the invisible hand was allowed to set minimum wage it would take care of itself.

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The problem is right now, millions of undocumented, uneducated and unskilled workers are putting massive downward pressure on wages. The labor supply is too fluid right now and will keep wages from rising to where they should be.

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I get it, you want a "living" wage.

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I am going to get one one way or another just like every other human being on the planet. I am going to make my nut and see to it that my needs are met as long as I am physically able, just like every other human on the planet. What I don't want, and cant imagine why anyone would, is for people like walmart heirs having their hand in my pocket whether I shop at walmart or not just so they can be benefactors to charity and the arts while living like kings. Why you and many like you are OK with that is beyond me but it ain't a conservative idea.

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Lol it's why people are paying for bucks for a hash brown.

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They are paying more than that. A sizeable portion of their taxes are going to subsidize the production of those hash browns.....

Big Mac combo will be $24.99

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