Minimum Wage Options

[*Steven*]

It's being raised, I think it's a dumb idea. What are your thoughts on the matter?

The minimum wage in Texas is 5.15$/hr. They're raising it to 7.25$/hr over the next 3 summers. I think that's kind of, unnecessary. For one, the majority of people making minimum wage are young high-school students etc. They don't stay making this wage for very long, and it's typically a starter job in which they make this money. By raising the minimum wage, no one (imo) benefits. The prices of goods go up because the employers are having to pay their employees more money and don't want to lose profit. Because of this, every day goods prices have gone up and people who don't benefit from the wage increase have to pay a larger sum of their salary/paycheck towards those every day goods. The people who are getting a higher wage (assuming they were working minimum) don't earn any more money in comparison to what they can buy. Sure the dollar amount is higher, but they have to spend more.

[*karmakiller*]

The price of living is increasing, so the money we're making should increase too, right?

So do you think that if they don't increase the amount of money people are making that goods won't cost more? (Because if people can't afford the goods, the people making the goods will have no other choice but to lower their prices?)



To comment on the fact that people shouldn't have children until they have the finacial needs to meet what it takes to care for children... there's lots of divorces that happen and lots of single parents. When my mother was on her own with us kids living in a crappy hotel she couldn't get a good job because of her pre-exsisting medical problems. It wasn't far that places didn't want to hire her and a minimum wage job didn't cut it.