$15 Minimum wage

My good sir, you have a fair point that it may be unethical to force business owners to pay their employees properly, but I have a few reasons why it is the exact opposite. First of all, without minimum wage, bad things happen. Such things include what's happening right now in Chin, if you think the "military is enforcing minimum wage" here, you should move to China, because the military is actually enforcing that the people do not riot due to their ridiculously low wages. So actually not having minimum wage is a bad thing, I will put a link at the bottom of my rebuttal stating the Chinese people's struggle with low wage. I must point out that you say that "the military is enforcing minimum wage" I must remind you about the time before American minimum wage: A young workers plea While President Franklin Roosevelt was in Bedford, Mass., campaigning for reelection, a young girl tried to pass him an envelope. But a policeman threw her back into the crowd. Roosevelt told an aide, "Get the note from the girl." Her note read, I wish you could do something to help us girls....We have been working in a sewing factory,... and up to a few months ago we were getting our minimum pay of $11 a week... Today the 200 of us girls have been cut down to $4 and $5 and $6 a week. To a reporter's question, the President replied, "Something has to be done about the elimination of child labor and long hours and starvation wages." -FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTPublic Papers and Addresses, Vol. VNew York, Random House, 1936), pp. 624-25. I will put a link at the bottom from where I found this. This states that the military was actually opposed to minimum wage, if you want you can read more in the website, and the struggle for minimum wage in America Another argument you have is that minimum wage is a communistic idea. This is not true. It is a socialist idea. This is outright dogma that socialism is bad. But you see, socialism has worked out for quite a few countries.These are the happiest countries in the world by order (note they all have minimum wage). 1.Switzerland (although it is capatilist, it is the only non socialist country on this list). 2.Iceland 3.Denmark 4.Norway 5.Canada 6.Findland 7.Netherlands (Holland) 8.Sweden 9.New Zealand 10.Australia This states that 9/10 happiest countries in the world are actually socialist, and all of them have minimum wage. Your next argument is that we are showing children that it is easy to give them a free ride through life, and that we're making it too easy on them. First of all, the government only pays $1000 in welfare, this is far below living wages. Second, people always want to be on top, but they can't always do this. A good example of this is student debt, "Seven in 10 seniors (69%) who graduated from public and nonprofit colleges in 2014 had student loan debt, with an average of $28,950 per borrower. Over the last decade"from 2004 to 2014"the share of graduates with debt rose modestly (from 65% to 69%) while average debt at graduation rose at more than twice the rate of inflation. Debt at graduation varies greatly by state and by college, and this report includes average debt levels for each state, lists of notably high- and low-debt colleges, and links to data for more than 1,000 colleges nationwide. It also includes policy recommendations for reducing the burden of student debt."-http://ticas.org.... Also, I have never, ever, met someone that wants to be a minimum wage job, and this is just reflection and common sense. Do you want to work at a minimum wage job for the rest of your life? Even if it's $15 a hour? Obviously not. You also said that giving people minimum wage by force in unacceptable. This would be true except it's not. I must remind you, you are always represented in congress depending on what senators/representatives you vote for. If you get who you want, they will represent the idea that they got voted in for. If you don't on the other hand, you were still represented in congress and it is not by force. ""63 percent of Americans support an even greater federal minimum wage increase to $15.00 by 2020 "71 percent of Americans favor raising tipped workers' minimum wage to the overall minimum wage an even greater federal minimum wage increase to $15.00 by 2020 "82 percent of Americans support automatic upward annual adjustments to the federal minimum wage" -Quote from:http://www.raisetheminimumwage.com... As I've said before, you are represented in congress, the government did not support minimum wage (at first), and the people do want it. It's called the majority my friend, and democracy is all about the majority, as a definition of democracy states " control of an organization or group by the majority of its members"- Google, search up definition of democracy.