Minimum Wage Is Bad Economically (No Minimum Wage)

>"Minimum wage helps keep many off of government welfare because it gives the worker more money to support him/her self." This is common sense and asking for a source is ridiculous. At the current minimum wage it does help keep people off welfare(the ones that are lucky enough to get a job) but the many that can't find work because of the increased minimum wage are forced to go on welfare. Why do you think many corporations moved out of America? Because why pay somebody a high minimum wage here when you can pay a slaves wage in a poor country. Not to mention lowering the minimum wage will also make nearly everything cheaper. So like I said before, sure you give one guy a job with this minimum wage but there are 10 other guys that didn't get the job that are now forced to go on welfare. >"Why would someone needing money want to earn less of it, to the point of it becoming illegal" Because they need a job and can't find one. Because of the massive supply of workers and the low demand for unskilled work it drives people to work for a lesser wage to become competitive. >"The experience is not invaluable." Sigh.....Experience is invaluable. Even at the most basic levels, like following a schedule,money management, paying bills, social relations and leadership skills. Perhaps your wage will be less, but you will gain lifelong experience money can't buy. >"Many minimum wage recipients did not have a chance to get a good education," Mcdonalds is a company with it's prime purpose of serving the customer quick, great tasting food at a low price. Not a school or a college. It's not Mcdonald's fault you didn't get go to go to school and neither is it their problem. Mcdonald's bottom line is to make money. Nothing more nothing less. The truth is not everybody can go to college, not everyone will own two cars and a house. That's the way life works, life is sad, but you can never change it nomatter how much you try and force everyone else into your radical idiotic leftist-communist pipedream. So here's the deal, America has brought in many extremely poor refugees from other countries, and they have an uncontrolled illegal immigration problem from the south.. These people drive the price of labor down while also making everything from food to housing prices skyrocket. So we can either deport them on a massive scale, or lower the minimum wage to reflect a changing America. > "Many minimum wage earners are stuck earning minimum wage for their life." Like I said before, not everyone was destined to go to college or have two houses. That was the past and the past is not anymore, these people working minimum wage for life would of most likely also been working a similar wage (or slightly lower) their whole life in their home country. "but so will many people's abilities to purchase these goods and services. " Wrong. Depending on the decrease in the wage everything will drop by a relatively huge amount, and with MUCH more people in the workforce (albeit at a lower wage) will stimulate the economy. Because those people that aren't currently working are sitting at home on government money, these people sometimes make less then if they worked at realistic wage level, and with every person on welfare.. It increases inflation and causes powerful economic damage. >"Hiring two people at $5/H would most likely put these two people on welfare. Hiring one person at $10/H would avoid this." ( V5;" V0;B2; V5;")( V5;" V0;B2; V5;")( V5;" V0;B2; V5;")( V5;" V0;B2; V5;") You made my case for me, thank you. 1.Hiring TWO people at $5/H will guarantee jobs for them while still collecting assistance, but they will be in the workforce earning money and gaining experience. 2. Hiring ONE person $10/H and forcing the other one to sit on welfare, but only one will be earning money and experience. You see how the 1# option is better? Both will be working AND collecting welfare, but welfare will scale on the amount of money you are making. So the two people earning $5/H will make about the same if not more then if only one person was working $10/H.. It also gets people into the workforce while lowering the cost of labor(and everything else) AND costing less for the government. So tomorrow if the minimum wage was nationally lowered and everyone working below a certain level will qualify for income assistance that will boost them to a $8-10/H level. The national unemployment rate would be cut in half by the end of the month. "Overall, no minimum wage would ruin the US economy. This is enough to disprove the resolution." Why was America so successful up until the 1970's when the minimum wage (if converted into our time) would be a near slaves wage? Off to you layer boy.