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Originally Posted by woj
why sarcasm? I thought the main argument for minimum wage is that the wage needs to be enough to "live on"... this doesn't apply to teenagers, since they don't use the $$ earned for living expenses, but for beer, smokes, movie tickets and a new iphone every year...
so why should everyone "subsidize" (through higher prices on goods/services) teenagers?
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Its not about the lowest paying jobs.. Go to states like FL or Texas.. look at their CL postings.. most of the "Blue Collar" jobs pay shit wages in these states.. You are talking semi skilled jobs that pay $10/hr.
Meanwhile you go somewhere like CT,MA, even CO and the exact same job is paying $15-16/hr.
Staples is good example I worked for them in CT and was making $17/hr with a 3 day work week. I kept the job so I could have insurance.
I tried to transfer to one of their FL DC's doing the exact same job for the same company and they would only pay $13/hr.
The min wage hike is needed because of shit like that. Companies that can afford to pay more in other states fuck the workers in all the lovely "right to work states".
Most of you guys who complain about this, have sat behind your computer screens far too long, living a sheltered life and have no clue what the real world is like.