Chris Rock once said that making minimum wage means if your boss could pay you less he would. There's a lot of truth in that statement, and why should it be any different? Not every job in a society is worth the top dollar.
George Will makes some pretty good points about the number of people that are actually making today's minimum wage. But he misses the point that all this is a smoke screen for the Democrats. They still fancy themselves as the party of the people and surely increasing the minimum wage will make even more people like them. Never mind that most of the jobs paying minimum wage go to kids that don't give a rats ass about who got the minimum wage raised. Or to people that are working a second job to generate some extra income and will not be in the job very long, nor do they rely on it as a primary source of income. Of course there are some people that don't have the skills to hold a job that pays more than the bottom amount allowed by law. Those people are going to be the hardest hit by any real increase in the minimum wage.
They are the ones that are going to be most likely to find fewer jobs available to them because the Democrats are going to price the jobs out of the market. When the cost of labor goes up (like the UAW union jobs) the companies using the labor will find alternatives. Look at the number of manufacturing jobs that have left this nation for cheaper labor markets in Mexico and China. Or the jobs that have been replaced with mechanization. Those are jobs that will never come back to our shores.
We are already a nation that produces nothing. Increasing the cost of labor won't do anything except speed up the decline of our ability to produce real goods. Then who are the workers that the Democrats fancy that they appeal to?
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TC
