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Originally Posted by woj
so you haven't really thought all this through, and are just making it all up as you go along? What if you aren't living at home, but your spouse makes $100k/year, should you be exempt too? Obviously you don't need the $$ to "live on", so why should everyone "subsidize" your employment at $15/hr?
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How many people do you think are on minimum wages and married to someone make $100k?
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raising minimum wage does nothing at all to solve this problem and actually makes it worse... it increases the wage gap between the US and other countries, so it makes setting up production outside of the US even more profitable...
also, I think you are missing what the problem is, the problem is not lack of jobs... the problem is lack of skills, there are ton of available jobs but most of them require some specialized skills... by raising minimum wage you reduce people's incentive to acquire those skills... leaving them stuck with 20th century skills, in 21st century economy...
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How many manufacturing jobs pay minimum wage?
Of course there has to be import taxes on companies what want to destroy job. And more spent on education to make sure there are enough to fill the high-skilled jobs.