Raising the Minimum Wage

Thank you for that argument Con. Rebuttal: 1. “Many people for it can't seem to agree on how much it should be. Also its a false problem to begin with. The majority of people in those jobs are teens. They should not be considered part of the poor. It's common knowledge and fact that the more employees you have that less money they give. All jobs should increase based on need. Minimum wage jobs are things everyone could do. Here's a comparison.” I want to focus on the teen part of Con’s argument for right now. You say the majority of minimum wage jobs are worked by teenagers. Yet you go on to say in your argument; “If also already pointed out over 20 percent of people who work minimum wage jobs are teenagers and they should not count as the poor.” Con contradicts himself very greatly. For he says that for every five minimum wage workers, only one of them is a teenager. 80% of minimum wage workers are not teenagers. Con then goes on to say that this is the majority, humongous contradiction there. They are also not considered part of the poor. This is a false assumption; the surveys look at all of the minimum wage workers and see how many of them are in poverty. Not the teenagers, if the teenagers live in a family which is in poverty, they will count them. But this is a wild assumption. 2. “No one will ever be satisfied with how much money it is, the people will want more money no matter what. So doing it to please people is pointless. Minimum wage jobs can be done by everyone, and companies cannot afford and will not bother to afford the same amount of employees with double the cost. They'll just make their small amount of employees work more hours and give them more work making it harder for people with jobs.” Well that’s an arrogant assumption that families living off of minimum wage jobs are greedy and ‘want more money no matter what.’ This is just an atrocious opinion that cannot be argued on since it is an opinion. Minimum wage jobs cannot be done by everyone, I am 13 years old and in Junior High. I cannot go work at McDonalds at a minimum wage job, this is false. The only reasonable point made in this argument is that businesses will make employees work longer. I feel like you never read any of my argument, if you would have you would have noticed that businesses will hire more employees to keep up with increased sales. Your argument can be rebutted with my arguments. “http://wheniwork.com...... <---Might want to re-read that one before telling me, more people will get jobs. Even your own links, which is above. Talk about pros and cons. Cons being more layoffs and fewer hiring. You presented links and contradicted your own facts.” I admit that I looked at a website that showed both sides of the argument. Is that so bad? I assume that you only looked at websites that supported your position, which is biased. Also if you would have looked at the website, it had increased employment as a pro. So I did not contradict myself, looking at a website that has both sides of the story is not contradicting one’s self. “The minimum wage was not meant to be a living wage...And people who make 10 now, do you think they'll accept what they're making? Like mcdonalds/fast food supervisors, they make 10 now. They will want raises, then the people who have that will want raises. Where does it stop?” This again makes the assumption that minimum wage workers are greedy, same argument which I have already defeated. “This is supposedly estimating 900,000 people would go out of poverty. And 500,000 would have no jobs. So some people are making 2 bucks more every hour they work, and most likely get their hours cut to compensate the rise. So in reality they probably won't get that much more money. And half a million were go further into poverty, and have no money what so ever to feed themselves or families. It's more likely those numbers are far worse than that.” Con then comes up with different numbers. I already had numbers and percentages from reliable resources, then my opponent tries to rebut this with different numbers. Confusing. Conclusion: Thank you, back to Con.