Originally Posted by JA$ON

Why make it $10? Thats by any standard low....why not $20? Wait, why not $30? Because...

There shouldn't be ANY min wage!!!!

Only 5% of people are paid MW in this country anyway so its really not a huge factor in solving any macro poverty issue. And guess what, people who are worth more...get paid more They demand it or they can take their skills elsewhere.

Eliminating it all together would get more entry level people in the workforce. Someone with NO skill adds very little value to an employer, so if the min wage is more than the employer can afford to pay that person to be around....guess what....THEY DONT HIRE THAT PERSON, lol. Eliminating the MW lets people with no skill get in the door. Maybe at $5 an hour, maybe $3. A VERY small % of those who started a job at min wage still made min wage 2 yrs later. The worker has the choice to not accept the job, but it opens the door to get skilled and work their way up, make more etc etc.
Forcing someone to adhere to a MW will just have employers evaluating their books and having to either let people go or not hire new ones , expand and so on. OR if its a business that uses a lot of unskilled grunt workers (Cashiers etc) and they can't let people go....they just raise prices.
And $1 or $2 per hour more does NOTHING to help lift people out of poverty. Its a way for politicians to throw their hands in the air scream "look at all Ive done".