The Minimum Wage Destroys Jobs

The problem with the "minimum wage" is that the minimum wage is universal. It is zero. No job, no income, no wage. As it has been pointed out several times minimum wages decrease jobs, thus more people unemployed. However, what has not been pointed out is that most people who benefit from minimum wage are not the people who the minimum wage is intended to benefit. Most people on minimum wage are teenagers/students living at home, people using it as secondary income, people who are supported by non-minimum wage earners. Thus why is the extra cost incurred by society at large from businesses passing costs on to consumers being used to give more money to kids who work at burger king for the summer? What should be done is the minimum wage should only be applied to those who really need it. (The aforementioned, but rarer, $6.hr families). However companies would just not hire those individuals as they would just have to pay them a higher wage.

An aside to the poster who called Ontario a "have not" province. Are you nuts? Ontario is the havingest province to ever have in have-town.

I hope someone comes back to post more about CEOs/Executives/Greedy Republicans/Mysterious Cabals of Old White men being greedy and making "too much money". That argument is rational and not at all laughable.

Jam it back in, in the dark.