Flipping burgers produces a certain value. If the government says that has to be $8/hr, than everything else will have to adjust to it.

But there are morons out there that think raising minimum wage increases employment.

The higher the wage the higher the payroll tax paid to the government

100% correct, but, people in that wage range may not make enough to pay income tax, BUT will pay more in to the soc.sec./med.care fund. (of which they will never benefit)

I have been paying the unskilled 15 yr. old who does odd jobs for me $8.00 starting, And I start those who run combines or tractors at $10.00. All get some benefits too. They get raises as they prove their worth. I do not need some damn politician telling me what to pay my help.

The government knows exactly what they are doing.

Think about that statement for a minute. Please insert between the word government and the word knows, the words ‘thinks it’

minimum wage jobs are held by the very youngest employees in the work force and some of the older employes in the work force.

Exactly right Clit, let those young kids beg from their parents, why should I be the one supporting their spending habits? And hey, as for those old fucks working for me, is cat food really that bad? I really doubt it, and if they had their shit together when they were young, they wouldn’t be in the fix they are today. Who says they actually need those prescriptions, they are probably better off without all those pills.

I can’t believe they raised the min. wage again! We have a successful business that nets around 350,000 a year, now we are only going to make 345,000 a year! FUCK that I am closing the doors, there is no way I am getting out of bed for under 350,000!

Most jobs that pay minimum wage aren’t making that kind of money. They’re small businesses that every dollar matters. 70 cents an hour times 10 employees times 40 hours a week is an extra 280 a week in expenses that they didn’t have before. An extra 14,560 a year on a business making 50-75k in profits a year is a massive hit.

Exactly right Clit, let those young kids beg from their parents, why should I be the one supporting their spending habits? And hey, as for those old fucks working for me, is cat food really that bad? I really doubt it, and if they had their shit together when they were young, they wouldn’t be in the fix they are today. Who says they actually need those prescriptions, they are probably better off without all those pills.

Funny. Truth is, in the early senior years, there is a cap on what seniors can make with Social Security. And, even in make believe land, prices go up to negate the wage increase. So seniors are no better off. In the real world, prices tend to go up more than the wage increase.

By itself, any one of these taxes, while an additional burden, wouldn’t be that bad. But tax after tax after tax after tax, mixed with health care costs added on, and complying with new regulations, and having to buy green, and go carbon neutral adds up to massive losses for businesses, AND for individuals.

Sure a 2% rise in costs isn’t bad, if that’s all it was. But that comes on the heels of a 5% raise here, and a 3% raise there, and a 1.15% tax here, and a 500 dollar fee here, and a monthly compliance price of 1500 here, and on and on and on.

It’s like cooking a frog. You can’t drop him in a pot of hot water. He’ll just jump out. But if you raise the temp by degrees, you’ll boil him to death soon enough.

For the 6% workers we’re told were “lifted up” by this increase, 94% of workers were brought down.

not true… everyone will now expect a .70 raise. i certainly would. and thats what the unions wanted. artificial wage inflation is bad.