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The best argument against a mandatory $20 an hour minimum wage.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:16 pm
Every store I've been in has a sign out front averaging their most basic entry level jobs that start at $20-25 an hour. Now I'm seeing highway billboards with the same message.
And they still manage to have the cheapest gas and immaculate restrooms. All without a government regulation mandating it.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:17 pm to BamaGradinTn
So your argument against a 20 dollar an hour minimum wage is there is an entity that uses it by choice and produces better outcomes than competitors as a result? 
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:18 pm to Powerman
This one will be fun to watch.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:19 pm to Powerman
quote:
So your argument against a 20 dollar an hour minimum wage is there is an entity that uses it by choice and produces better outcomes than competitors as a result?
My argument is that the free market works. Much better than government mandates.
This post was edited on 10/18/26 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:20 pm to BoarEd
It will be predictable to watch. There is no one more loathed by the masses here than the working poor.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:21 pm to BamaGradinTn
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My argument is that the free market works.
Sometimes the free market works. Sometimes the free market crashes the whole economy.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:22 pm to Powerman
Those companies that pay $20 dollars an hour hire people WORTH $20 an hour and thus can outperform the competition.
You mandate it and people worth $8 get paid $20. Everything goes down hill from there.
This really shouldn’t be too hard.
You mandate it and people worth $8 get paid $20. Everything goes down hill from there.
This really shouldn’t be too hard.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:24 pm to BamaGradinTn
Everyone who made it to the second lesson of an introductory economics class knows that the only thing accomplished from raising minimum wage is a loss of jobs.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:24 pm to BamaGradinTn
Bring it on, I ready for the robots to make my food instead of the freaks doing crap to it. Morons that vote for this shite will never learn.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:25 pm to Laugh More
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Those companies that pay $20 dollars an hour hire people WORTH $20 an hour and thus can outperform the competition.
You mandate it and people worth $8 get paid $20.
I dont disagree
But it's a double edged sword. If you pay someone 8 dollars an hour you as the employer are setting the expectations low by what you're offering to pay.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:27 pm to BamaGradinTn
Our problem isn't minimum wage. It's the standard of living we've allowed the parasites to get used to through free shite. Our folks on welfare EBT Medicaid section 8 live better than 95% of the planet. That's the problem. Free shouldn't equal above average it should equal bare minimum. That would incentivize people to get off free shite and not make it a lifestyle.
This post was edited on 10/18/26 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:27 pm to rtr72
There should never be a minimum wage. It is the opposite of a free market system. The market shout dictate wages. Period. It is the equivalent of pouring sugar into a gas tank.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:27 pm to BamaGradinTn
Mandatory wage of $20 is ridiculous. However, Buc-ee’s is free to pay what they want to pay. They are very successful business that kicks a little more down to their employees. Kinda like profit sharing. On the other hand a business that is struggling shouldn’t be forced to pay a mindless, lazy, moron $20 an hour.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:29 pm to paulb52
Businesses that are struggling are usually the cheap bastards that don't want to pay anyone
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:32 pm to Powerman
quote:Then they will not survive. That is how our system is supposed to operate.
Businesses that are struggling are usually the cheap bastards that don't want to pay anyone
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:33 pm to Powerman
quote:Come on, PM.
So your argument against a 20 dollar an hour minimum wage is there is an entity that uses it by choice and produces better outcomes than competitors as a result?
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:33 pm to shrevetigertom
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Then they will not survive.
Good
Society has no use for such businesses
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:35 pm to Powerman
quote:Yet you are intimating requiring a wage of $20/hr would not negatively affect that, or up and coming local businesses?
Businesses that are struggling are usually the cheap bastards that don't want to pay anyone
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:41 pm to Powerman
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Businesses that are struggling are usually the cheap bastards that don't want to pay anyone
You are just making stuff up as you go.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 4:42 pm to Powerman
Jobs worth $8 dollars inherently are for those that are at the low end - whether that’s young high school kids, lazy people, those coming out of prison/off drugs, etc.
Those companies willing to pay $20 have the pick of the litter because they can be selective.
$8 an hour jobs are plug and play and there is a vast number of workers. A lot of them coming and going from competition as a lot of those jobs require the same “skills.”
Those companies willing to pay $20 have the pick of the litter because they can be selective.
$8 an hour jobs are plug and play and there is a vast number of workers. A lot of them coming and going from competition as a lot of those jobs require the same “skills.”
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