Raising the Minimum Wage

http://www.forbes.com... http://www.forbes.com... http://www.forbes.com... http://www.npr.org... Here's the main thing for minimum wage. Many people for it can't seem to agree on how much it should be. Also its a false problem to begin with. The majority of people in those jobs are teens. They should not be considered part of the poor. It's common knowledge and fact that the more employees you have that less money they give. All jobs should increase based on need. Minimum wage jobs are things everyone could do. Here's a comparison. 1) In-and-Out Burger had 290 locations across 5 states, and around 18000 employees as of April 2013. They usually operate around 14 hours a day. 2) Moo Cluck Moo owns 2 locations exclusively in Michigan (according to its website), and is only open 10 hours a day on any given day. 3) McDonald's owns 35000 locations across the entire world, employs 1.7 million people across their various franchised restaurants, and tends to operate their restaurants around 18 hours a day. Moo Cluck Moo: 2 locations, very few workers, $15 an hour In-And-Out: 290 locations, 18,000 workers, $10.50 an hour (much less) McDonald's: 35k locations, 1.7 million workers, minimum wage (less still) When you have more locations and have more employees, you can't afford to pay them as well. It's common sense and is a fact of life. Forcing companies to raise the minimum wage, will make people hire less, which means less people that are working, and less people paying taxes. In-And-Out Burger's lowest costing burger is $1.90, and Moo Cluck Moo's burgers cost $3.79 minimum. And neither of those companies has nearly the amount of overhead and corporate nonsense to deal with that McDonald's has. Given the various extra factors that a corporation like McDonald's has to deal with (things that a purely-based-in-the-USA chain doesn't), it would be perfectly reasonable to presume that a single cheeseburger at McDonald's would go north of $2 if the minimum wage doubles. And since no one would go for that, the alternative is that they close a lot of locations and fire a lot of workers. White Castle stated if it went up to 15 dollars they'd have to close half their locations and fire about as many workers to make it work and they're much smaller than McDonald's, so you could probably presume similar numbers for McDonald's if not worse. Which means that about 800k people could potentially lose their jobs. It is also ridiculous, because the government has been constantly increasing it very gradually. So it already is being raised, I assume you going for the 15 dollar thing. And this is my argument against it. It won't help the poor, because they're on welfare and don't have jobs to begin with. Majority of minimum wage workers are teenagers. No one will ever be satisfied with how much money it is, the people will want more money no matter what. So doing it to please people is pointless. Minimum wage jobs can be done by everyone, and companies cannot afford and will not bother to afford the same amount of employees with double the cost. They'll just make their small amount of employees work more hours and give them more work making it harder for people with jobs. It already is increasing, like all jobs should be when cost of living rises. I know it sounds cool to the average college student saying "burger king should pay my part time work as much as a mechanic or more than a nurse". But it's not practical, it lacks common sense and it will not help job growth, it will not help the economy. http://www.bestmedicaldegrees.com... And when things like this are a thing. I hate to say it but minimum wage jobs should not pay more then far more important jobs. http://www.theworkbuzz.com... All these jobs are harder than burger flipping or doing math on a cash register. And require actual skills that could not be learned by every teen in under a week. Your four arguments/statements 1. Companies will just cut jobs and employees and make them work longer hours and do more. It will also increase it's costs. Just because people have more money working at the job does not equal, it benefiting. The business does not have more money, how would that work? http://nrn.com... 2. That is so backwards. People have made statements about having to cut employees. This statement is absolutely false. http://wheniwork.com... <---Might want to re-read that one before telling me, more people will get jobs. Even your own links, which is above. Talk about pros and cons. Cons being more layoffs and fewer hiring. You presented links and contradicted your own facts. 3. The minimum wage was not meant to be a living wage...And people who make 10 now, do you think they'll accept what they're making? Like mcdonalds/fast food supervisors, they make 10 now. They will want raises, then the people who have that will want raises. Where does it stop? http://www.breitbart.com... This is an article about huffing post talking about McDonald wages, and backtracking saying they were way off. This also points out their will be layoffs and major price increases. If also already pointed out over 20 percent of people who work minimum wage jobs are teenagers and they should not count as the poor. This is supposedly estimating 900,000 people would go out of poverty. And 500,000 would have no jobs. So some people are making 2 bucks more every hour they work, and most likely get their hours cut to compensate the rise. So in reality they probably won't get that much more money. And half a million were go further into poverty, and have no money what so ever to feed themselves or families. It's more likely those numbers are far worse than that. This is something you really want? In my own conclusion: It's getting raised all the time, everyone still is increasing it, and no one will ever be happy with what they get, raising it to 15 or 12 or whatever trying to increase it too much will do far more harm then good.