should the government raise minimum wage

The government shouldnt raise minimum wage because though you would get more money minimum wage jobs are temporary jobs and meant to be treated as such. The minimum wage was never designed to be a "living wage" it was for all intent and purpose to be a safeguard against legalized slavery. If a company wants decent workers they will pay a decent wage. If the jobs are too low paying no one will want them and it will force the rates to be increased. Also if the rates are too low it will also discourage illegal immigration which we all know is a problem. A minimum wage job is a starting point not a career. And continuously increasing that wage only raises the costs of all goods and those earning that minimum wage will have their income gone sooner. Also raising minimum wage will raise taxes and big businesses will hide behind it taking it away and instead businesses should just offer better jobs and working environments A higher minimum wage would be a heavier burden on employers especially small business owners. And those employers in turn would be unable to hire as many people an undesirable result when unemployment continues to exist "Young workers willing to accept five dollars per hour for low-level work or to gain valuable experience should be allowed to do so Jacoby argued especially if the alternative is being unable to find a job at all. Furthermore increasing the minimum wage has not proven to be effective at lowering the poverty rate according to the business-backed nonprofit Employment Policies Institute. Multiple studies have demonstrated little to no relationship between a higher minimum wage and reductions in poverty the institute says in a policy brief". Where does this all leave the minimum wage? Harkins bill has been referred to committee which means it is several legislative steps away from becoming a law. And in a highly polarized election season action on such a controversial issue is unlikely. raising the minimum wage will hurt the smaller businesses that cannot afford to pay their employees more than what the minimum is now. Raising minimum wage is a vicious circle the government raises it because it hasnt been raised in years and as soon as its raised everything else goes up immediately to compensate. If it were easy for businesses to pay higher wages than they would! Now think about this. If a business has three people working for it and it is a very small business but the people want to be payed more. So they start getting people to protest and then the minimum wage gets raised. The business can no longer pay all three so they fire one. Now that person that wanted more has nothing at all. This is precisely what happened in Detroit. Detroit was known for having amazing cars. But after a while the people in Detroit wanted the wage to be higher so they made the car companies pay them more. In the end the companies could not afford to pay them so after laying thousands of people off they eventually all moved to a place where the minimum wage was lower to prevent shutting down. This completely crashed the economy. Many people dedicate mass amounts of their precious time fighting to raise minimum wage. Their perception of minimum wage on the other hand only goes skin deep their belief is that it should be a living wage so that a low income laborer could provide for his or her family. The problem with that concept as previously mentioned is that they only scratch the surface when they decide what minimum wage should be set at.