$15 Minimum Wage

[YurytheRed]

Is anyone in our state legislature worth $15 per hour?

[Tarhunt]

No. 

[vdep217]

While 15 dollar minimum wage sounds good it will reduce the available job opportunities..  states that have done it already for minimum wage jobs went automated requiring less employees thus creating more competition for available jobs..

Edited January 18, 2019 by vdep217

[Lunatic]

Many people are and many are not,  but to find out who is and who is not the government should not be dictating what individuals should make 

[MGHunter66]

3 minutes ago, vdep217 said:

While 15 dollar minimum wage sounds good it will reduce the available job opportunities..  states that have done it already for minimum wage jobs went automated requiring less employees thus creating more competition for available jobs..

Spot on Don’ Forget this will also mean less employess in many different tupes of businesses, especially customer service positions. Not to mention lowering wages for new workers at jobs that were previously above $15/hour due to more employment competition.

[Lunatic]

23 minutes ago, YurytheRed said:

Is anyone in our state legislature worth $15 per hour?

They push for it because they exist in this very system where pay is not proportional to the work performed, and I don’t mean they are underpaid 

[Lunatic]

2 minutes ago, maximus66 said:

Spot on Don’ Forget this will also mean less employess in many different tupes of businesses, especially customer service positions. Not to mention lowering wages for new workers at jobs that were previously above $15/hour due to more employment competition.

Remember Democrats believe their voters are stupid so they only have to make believe something is good, the actual result are irrelevant. 

[YurytheRed]

What I've always found amusing is the very same pols that call for a "living wage" have through excessive taxation and regulation rendered their states almost unlivable say for the extremely wealthy or the extremely poor. Employers are resilient if nothing else. They will find a way to work around this lunacy either through higher prices, less workers or just up and leave. Either way NJ suffers.   

[Tarhunt]

3 minutes ago, YurytheRed said:

What I've always found amusing is the very same pols that call for a "living wage" have through excessive taxation and regulation rendered their states almost unlivable say for the extremely wealthy or the extremely poor. Employers are resilient if nothing else. They will find a way to work around this lunacy either through higher prices, less workers or just up and leave. Either way NJ suffers.   

I agree 100 percent.

[Batsto]

These politicians are really funny! But I will be coming out of retirement as Wallmart Greeter for 15 Bucks. Many greeters are part of security now, I may gets 17 or 18 dollars an hour.  All greeters are at 10 .

Edited January 18, 2019 by Batsto

[bushden]

I might go get a job as a greater at WALMART !!

[Live to Hunt]

The government.  Our saviors  

[mattg1500]

Most kids in the workforce arent worth $15hr these days

[Kype]

where i work. you work your way up. you start out as a grunt. doing the dirty work for little pay. as you prove yourself you get promoted. and earn a decent pay. with the way kids are these days. why bust your ass for little pay when you could go work at walmart or flip burgers for $15 an hour? 

we have guys in our company who started as a grunt, and are now bosses of the company. due to hard work, loyalty and no bitching when its raining, cold, or hot outside. 

[hammer4reel]

21 minutes ago, mattg1500 said:

Most kids in the workforce arent worth $15hr these days

There are plenty of people making 5 times that who aren't worth 5 bucks an hour.

 

I honestly don't see the reason for all the uproar over 15 bucks an hour ( which is 5 years away ) 

people are making more than that weekly NOW collecting unemployment sitting home.

MAYBE more cash flow earned in the state will take some of the burden off some of us by making more people contribute instead of them just sitting there with their hand out .

 

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