Minimum Wage Should Be Abolished

- Minimum wage protects people. + People can protect themselves by quitting jobs and choosing jobs. - Minimum wage ranges from 5-7 dollars an hour depending on what state you're in. Take a 40 hour work week with the average 6 dollars an hour and a 49 week work-year and that is 11,760 dollars a YEAR. That is 1000 dollars above the poverty line in America. + This hurts businesses to have to pay so much. Employers will not hire inexoerience teens and college students but rather experienced adults, making these people unable to find work. - Teenagers, workers-in training, interns, and college students are NOT impacted by minimum wage at all. On a whole, college students get paid MORE than minimum wage and interns don't work for MONEY but for EXPERIENCE. Thus, most internships are unpaid. And teenagers are dependent on their parents still, so money is not a necessity for their survival. + Teenagers dont have to be dependent on their parents. College student need low paying jobs so they can stay focused on studies and have time to go to class. Many internships are paid. When these people must be paid, their salaries will go to experienced people. Also, youre forgetting that some charities pay their workers, this is unfair to charities and the people that they help. - Not only does it protect people from poverty, but it protects people from businesses and corporations. (The poor from the rich.) + People can quit and choose jobs. The rich is not hurting the poor. - Look at the people who work as burger-flippers and cashiers at fast food places. The line for that job to get 6$ an hour goes out the door. McDonalds, if they could, would give the job to the lowest bidder. In reality, the lowest bidder's salary would net him WAY below the cost of bare-essentials living. He could do this because he's probably a teenager living with his parents and just wants money to have - not to survive. The teenager will win where the man who needs to feed his family will lose. Unskilled laborers compete for the lowest wage, and Minimum wage is a way stop that from getting out of hand. + People are competent enough to make the decision to work for whatever they like. This is not the government's decision. It is just intrusive. Also, fewer people get jobs because the money that goes to one person could go to multiple workers who want to work for less. - Minimum wage does NOT limit our ability to compete globally, but strengthens it. + Minimum wage wastes money that could be spent elsewhere. Also, foreign countries can invest more into what they choose giving them the upper hand. Ive explained why it lowers the global economy, now you actually give a reason why it strengthens it. - I read a story about a California McDonald's outsourcing the drive-thru speaker to Mexico. While that's a very scary thing globalization and Minimum wage is still beneficial to America. Minimum wage, like globalization, encourages people to compete and thus improve themselves. The fact is, there will ALWAYS be competition for a job. Even with minimum wage, there simply aren't enough jobs to hire everybody. By encouraging entrepreneurship and skill development, Minimum wage and globalization make people better. It's not like the drive-thru window is the only job out there either, it just means unskilled laborers head towards different ones. + This is an example of how the minimum wage make Americans want to invest in forign countries, lowering our economy and strengthening foreign ones. - There is always someone who will work for less to beat out the next guy. and Businesses want to pay the lowest wage possible to their workers to maximize profit. so Minimum wage exists to create competition based on skills, not wage. + Shouldnt a company be able to decide whether skills or money is more valuable? For the government to decide that a company needs to spend more money on skill is intrusive and ridiculous. People will only do so much work, for so much money and if people work too cheaply, that is their decision. - It's not like minimum wage is a lot of money (as I said earlier, 11000 a year for one person), so I don't see how it hurts businesses. + Thats a lot of money for one company to invest. That money could be ionvested in something more beneficial. PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING PREVIOUS MADE ARGUMENTS AS WELL: -The vast majority of economists believe the minimum wage law costs the economy thousands of jobs. -A low-paying job remains an entry point for those with few marketable skills. -Abolishing the minimum wage will allow businesses to achieve greater efficiency and lower prices. -Non-profit charitable organizations are hurt by the minimum wage. -The minimum wage can drive some small companies out of business. -A minimum wage gives businesses an additional incentive to mechanize duties previously held by humans. -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.