The effects of a minimum wage on an economy are bad

"Since getting the minimum wage removed is lowing the minimum wage, it would benifit to get remove it" By this same logic I could say "eating less keeps you from getting fat, and since not eating at all would lower how much you eat, it would benefit you to quit eating" or "shorting you hair makes you look cuter, so since shaving your head shortens your hair, shaving your head will make you look cuter" At some point, with either of those, you cross a threshold of the benefits of shortening your hair or eating less. You have to eat some, what’s minimum necessary or you die. And whether or not you find baldness a good hairstyle or not, you don’t find it so on the same grounds of ‘shorter is better’. I as a worker, when I go home I have basic minimum expenses, not talking about luxuries like paying for the movies, games, music. There’s a minimum I have to pay to put gas in my truck so I can get to work on time, there’s a minimum I have to pay for other basic bills I might have like phone, electric, heating, rent, groceries for the week. If I am payed under those expenses THEN I AM DOING CHARITY by working for the employer who wants to pay me less than the gas it took to drive to work each day that week. And as it would turn out, my expenses in basic utilities are not different than anyone else’s can be expected to be. So this minimum needed to make it worth a workers time is the same for any worker. Should employers go under that threshold your just asking to push the bulk of the workforce in the whole nation on welfare to help make that minimum payments, and that is definitely not better for the economy. Your arguments have continued to hinge on saying “If your worth 5 bucks”, if the cost of living is 7.25 an hour than bare minimum I am worth 7.25 an hour for my time. It also does not cost outside of my wage to employ me for my minimum wage job. My small convenience store owner does not pay for my medical bill if I have them, they don’t pay for my gas, or to feed me, or anything like that. All that goes into the cost of having me stand there at the cash register and keeping the shelves stocked and various other duties is a paycheck every 2 weeks. Any cost that are involved in keeping me employed that you may have mentioned are not connected directly to the inherent expenses of running a business. Like payroll taxes. If that is causing the expense in taxs higher than their net profits after I have been paid, then the payroll taxes out to be lowered not my dirt low wage that barely pays for the gas in my truck to drive to the store (and I live pretty close) If your talking about how much they make from sales net profit and that not meeting what it takes to pay me and the other employees, then they need to hire less and work some themselves in there own store if there not doing good enough in business right now to pay us all. Harsh as that sounds though paying all of us just a little bit less than enough to get by is still not enough to get by and we employees need to quite and go work somewhere else anyway. Better that fewer of us are being paid enough than all of the employees doing charity by showing up to work being paid less than the trip and time is worth. So in Conclusion 1) Keeping employers from doing charity does not come before keeping employees from doing charity 2) The basic cost of living are around the same amount for anybody 3) Paying below the cost of living forces employees on welfare to be able to meet them. 4) If the store does not make enough to pay all the employees wages, they should not have so many employees 5) If tax’s on employing me are higher than the store profits, lower the tax 6) All your sources are still just odd statistics; there is no logical reason to connect school drop outs with unemployment. I stayed in school and was never employed until after I got 2 Associates degrees. Obviously in spite of the numbers from one does not follow the other or my life would be very different, so there must be other causes of the high school drop out rates, like culture problems. 7) Eating less may make for a better diet, but eating nothing while it is eating less is not a good diet 8) Any employee is at bear minimum worth is the hourly wage that would meet there cost of living if they were given the chance to work enough hours there. My opponent has argued well this debate and clearly outsourced me though much of it was not links I could actually click on.