The Minimum Wage

== COUNTER-ARGUMENTS == //Foolish fool! Economic laws are ceteris paribus! You cannot compare different states with different economies to each other and expect the results to be authoritative. Nothing is more authoritative than the use of your own logic which shows the error in the humanitarians support of Minimum Wage laws.// I'm afraid you have missed the point of the statistics. They are shown to prove that a minimum-wage does not always, if ever, result in unemployment. It cannot be proven that minimum-wage laws have a result of unemployment and, even if it did, there's apparently a way to reverse it. The unemployment argument is not a valid argument, find something new. //Nevertheless, here is a graph from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that shows a significant correlation between minimum wage laws and youth unemployment, especially blacks.// And here is a graph which shows that a lack of pirates is obviously causing global warming: http://en.wikipedia.org... Not only can you not prove whether there is a real correlation (there are many things which would go up at the same angle on a graph) but you also can't prove causation. It's just as easily true that a high rate of unemployment may result in a higher minimum wage(since high unemployment often occurs in a bad economy and it may be more likely for the minimum wage to be risen during a bad economy). == ARGUMENTS === 1. Price to got to work: A select few are very lucky to get a job in their neighborhood but, sadly, for majority of us this is not the case--we are forced to make the commute. Do you have any idea how much gas costs now-a-days? It is often in the $3/gallon range.[1] Will most people even be able to get to work on 1 gallon of fuel? Probably not. So how then could it be efficient or humane to pay less than the amount it takes to make it? All workers would be kept in a perpetual state of poverty, much like they are now but far more extreme. 2. The minimum wage encourages those on welfare to get a job: What incentive would someone on welfare have to seek a job if they could only make less and with more effort? They wouldn't be making their situation any better so seeking a job would be futile to them. 3. Whatever "harm" a minimum wage does business is reversed. Though it may seem that having a minimum-wage is to take out of the business' profits, just what do you think the employees will do with their higher pay? Eat it? Take it home and mount it on their wall? No. They go out into the market-place and spend it. Everything taken is given back, so you can't say it hurts business. 4. It helps to solve the income-gap. The massive income gap is a huge problem all over the world. The rich are able to manipulate laws to their desires and are keen to endlessly abuse and take advantage of their over-whelming leverage on rest of society. In America the top 1% of society own as much as the bottom 95% and own over 200 times as much as the bottom 40%. [2] The minimum-wage helps to fight this by turning employer profit into employee profit. Lets bring up Denmark again. They have the highest minimum wage in the world [3], so it's no surprise that they also have the highest income equality in the world [4]. == SOURCES == 1. http://www.eia.doe.gov... 2. http://www.holtz.org... 3. http://en.wikipedia.org... 4. http://en.wikipedia.org...