Minimum Wage Should Be Abolished

- Minimum wage ONLY affects certain jobs like fast-food, mall stores, etc etc. There is a HUGE competition for those jobs and without Minimum wage, everyone would be FORCED to lower their pay standards because there is always somebody who will ask for less. + That is their choice? Since when is it the governments right to stop capitalism by forcing business to pay people certain amounts. - A. I have no trouble finding work B. I CAN'T work for lower than minimum wage because I have BASIC LIVING EXPENSES such as gas to get to work, books for classes, and food. C. I don't have time to work for 1$ an hour. + Fine. Cross college students off your list maybe you are the exception but there are still charities, business, children, etc. being hurt by minimum wage. - Without minimum wage, I would have to work for MUCH LESS than 6.50$ an hour or else I won't be hired. And even if I was, I still wouldn't be able to buy books or drive my car. + You cant always get what you want. You cant just get handed more money than u deserve. Its unfair. - Minimum wage is not INTRUSIVE. It is SUPPORTIVE. People who work for 1$ an hour say that their work is only worth that much, whereas to the Business, it could be worth A LOT MORE. For 1$ an hour, the business could be making $100/hr from that person's work. Businesses can take advantage of people because most unskilled laborers (like teens) have NO CHOICE but to work for that job. Minimum wage protects people from BUSINESS and OTHER PEOPLE. + You just said that teens have to work these jobs. This means that yu agree that teens will not be hired if the wage gets higher because experienced adults will get hired. The minimum wage is supportive of beggars not th hard workingpeople who build businesses with their own time and money. It steps all over their rights to own their business. - It WASTES money?? It wastes money on PEOPLE?? People who need food, clothing, and THINGS?? This explanation fails to grasp how an economy works. People spend money and businesses sell things. Everyone invests or saves. If PEOPLE had more money, then PEOPLE could invest or buy things, and THAT strengthens the economy. It all must balance out. + Businesses spend their money and invest it in useful things like new technology that can make America greater while civilians spend their money on potato chips. While our businesses are loosing money, foreign businesses are investing their money and the American businesses loose and foreign businesses grow stronger. This is already happening. - I encourage you to read about the Robber-Baron period in American history. That business mindset did not work out well back then for the country. + I'm not familiar with this but we have new technology now, new rights and making money is greater and easier. -The vast majority of economists believe the minimum wage law costs the economy thousands of jobs. This is a fact. Please explain your justification for thousands of job losses or find a negating fact. Not answering an argument is very frustrting and proves that you either agree with the argument or are incapable of refuting it. Please answer all unanswered arguments. In actual debate, not answering an argument automatically makes it true. -A low-paying job remains an entry point for those with few marketable skills. Teenagers will be less likely to get low paying jobs when the salary is so high because experienced adults will be hired in their stead. -Abolishing the minimum wage will allow businesses to achieve greater efficiency and lower prices. Businesses can invest in things that will make their customers happier and wont have to worry about money as much allowing them to pay their workers more. -Non-profit charitable organizations are hurt by the minimum wage when they want to pay the homeless or other volunteers. -The minimum wage can drive some small companies out of business because they will invest in too in employees much and make too small a profit. -A minimum wage gives businesses an additional incentive to mechanize duties previously held by humans. Why pay a human to do a mediocre job when a one time fee machine does a perfect job every time? -Cost-of-living differences in various areas of the country make a universal minimum wage difficult to set. -The minimum wage law is just another example of government condescendingly controlling our actions and destroying personal choice. Citizens do have the ability to say no to a lower wage. YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR PRO BECAUSE I REFUTED ALL OF HIS ARGUMENTS IN A REASONABLE FASHION AND HE DID NOT ANSWER MY ARGUMENTS AT LEAST IN A TIME WHERE I COULD RESPOND TO THEM. THIS IS UNFAIR. ANDI MADE SEVERAL GOOD ARGUMENTS ANSWERED AND UNANSWERED WHILE ANSWERING ALL OF HIS.