The effects of a minimum wage on an economy are bad

I would like to say the BOP is even as this issue is contested, and he needs o have arguments not just rebuttals. =defense of arguments= RC1: Teenage unemployment First, you provide links, which are sourcing what? I will not refute them as you need to say your arguments. They seem to be talking about the new era of adolescents. You need to learn how unemployment is counted, if your partying and not looking for a job you are not counted. Let me quote; "Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work." [1] Now, if your argument where true they would not try to enter the workforce hence if your argument was correct there would be lower unemployment. Why teen unemployment is high: 1. A high minimum wage makes it harder for them to get a job. (2) Then other reasons. Raising the minimum wage is followed by teenage unemployment. (3) Now, abolishing the min wage would lower unemployment. RC2: minorities This is economics not ethics. Extend argument. Now your only rebuttal is the minority can't affect the majority, false. Let's be simple, school grades. 100+0= 50% 100+100+0=66% 100+100+100+0= 75% That minority 0 has an impact. Now I refer to former arguments. RC3: overall employment My opponent ignores the numbers and logic. Min wage= 7$ I am worth 5$ Because if that wage I am now not eligible for work. Milton Freidman says it perfectly by the way. This wage makes it impossible for me to get a job. Stats: You make odd conclusions, if you look at the studies it links it directly to the minimum wage. You seem to ignore these studies. Most economists agree the minimum wage hurts the economy. (4) (5) First, raising the minimum wage would not reduce poverty. (6) Second, current evidence, see graph, shows when the minimum wage goes up so does unemployment. (7) I press the point forward. RC4: Drop outs It is simple why, if you raise the min wage the kid says "cool 7$ per hour" well kids are dumb. Anyway they see immediate benifit with these wages, so they quit school to get the money, so naive. But this is what they do, they only think short term, and go where the money is, high minimum wages. (8) Let me quote: "That minimum-wage increases lead to higher dropout rates is exactly what Texas A&M economist Finis Welch found. Now that's a revelation, higher wages attract people into the workforce." (8) So they just go $$$$$, but forget they could get more. But they go here instead. Now, as they cannot get a job it's a double whamie: A. No job + B. no schooling. Sucks. More stats: ï¿½Another side effect of raising the minimum wage is that it increases the number of high-school students who drop out (9) (10) "An increase in the minimum wage to $5.15 an hour, as President Clinton proposes, would drive teenagers with few skills out of the workplace and out of the schools, say members of the African-American leadership group Project 21." (11) Point advanced. My point I promised to add on last round: C5: outsources jobs The minimum wage increases costs to the employer through a higher wage. (12) One reason to outsource is lower wages. (13) In china you pay less ---> less cost to you ---> $$$$ Vs the minimum wage Higher wages ---> expensive ---> move to china! Quote: "When you force American companies to pay a certain wage, you increase the likelihood that those companies will outsource jobs to foreign workers, where labor is much cheaper. There has been a lot of attention lately on the subject of job "outsourcing", where U.S. companies hire foreign workers instead of Americans. When businesses outsource American jobs, they're not doing it because they hate America; they're doing it because they're trying to cut costs. When you increase the price of labor in America, you create an additional incentive for businesses to hire Canadian, Mexican, or other foreign workers. The best way to stop outsourcing of jobs is to provide the best conditions for doing business in America. A minimum wage just makes things tougher for companies to do business in America.ï¿½ Remember that American companies may have no choice but to outsource with the high cost in the U.S.--they may go out of business entirely if they can't cut costs to a level that's competitive with foreign competitors." (4) Vote Pro! http://www.bls.gov... [1] http://epionline.org... (2) http://cincinnati.com... (3) http://www.balancedpolitics.org... (4) http://www.slate.com... (5) http://www.cnn.com... (6) http://www.foxbusiness.com... (7) http://www.nicholls.edu... (8) http://www.house.gov... (9) Neumark, David and William Wascher, The Effects of Minimum Wages on Teenage Employment and Enrollment: Evidence from Matched CPS Surveys. National Bureau for Economic Research: Cambridge, MA, 1995. (10) http://www.nationalcenter.org... (11) http://mises.org... (12) http://www.billshrink.com... (13)