Let me start out by saying that I do support increasing minimum wage. Absolutely! It’s ridiculous that it hasn’t been increased in all this time. BUT I do not support it going to $15 an hour. It’s not that I don’t want people to do well. At all. But I see how it is going to affect a whole lot of people, including myself.
Many people in this country make between $15-20/hour currently. And it took them a long time to get to that level. So if you make the minimum wage $15/hour, do you think the wage of the people who were already making that is going to increase? Think about it. No! It is not going to increase. You are going to have a country that is already filled with disgruntled people even angrier because a high school kid is making the same as them. I say this because I will be one of those pissed off people. Right now I am pissed off about some things at work anyway due to salary. So this will only add insult to injury.
Also, do you realize that EVERYTHING in this country will go up price-wise? Everything! Why? Well, where are they going to get that money to pay those people? You have to have money in order to spend it. Those business CEOs, CFOs and any other C-Level people are not going to take a pay cut in order to pay their peons more. So they will jack up the prices. So my hard earned money that I didn’t get a raise for will now be even less because someone without a degree, without any work experience, with nothing to back up that jump in pay can make as much as me. This is completely illogical, irresponsible and unreasonable.
If you think this big of a leap in the minimum wage is good, you are living in a dream world. I am not a Republican. I am not a true Democrat. And I do vote more Democrat than Republican. But I am a realist. And I see this crippling our economy. I also see it angering a nation that is already at a boiling point that I honestly do not know if we can ever recover from within my lifetime.
I think our leaders need to re-think this and realize this is not going to help our country. What would help our country is providing housing at reasonable costs. Lowering taxes. Not taxing things such as groceries. We have to have those things to survive and some of us are being taxed to death on them. They should look at doing something for the education of health in our country. Why not slap fines on pharmaceutical companies for bleeding us dry for medications that are necessary? Make medications affordable!
But this crazy minimum wage proposal is going to cause more harm than good.
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