The Minimum Wage Destroys Jobs

Last time my state raised the minimum wage was ten years ago. Maybe it shouldn't be pegged to inflation - I think the libertarian argument that minimum wage will destroy your livelihood and lead to rampant inflation is just ridiculous, but I'm not educated enough in economics to say that a minimum wage hike every single year will have minimal adverse effects - but honestly it was well overdue.

And for the record, I too was pissed that I was working a wage slave job for a year, with an additional year's experience previously, and that new hires were getting paid the same I was. It sucks but on the grand scheme of things, it's less 'destruction' and more 'kick in the pants'.

And another thing, and I don't care how many of you disagree, but if a company resorts to hiring illegals and paying them less than minimum wage, they broke two laws and they should be punished for both. If that means I have to pay a little more for my milk - and I don't think the market would bear some sort of dire out-of-control markup like some people will say - I honestly don't care. Fighting illegal immigration by rounding up families and throwing the book at charities is hilariously inept.

I don't even DRINK milk, that's why I don't care. I am totally unaffected by the problem of outsourced labor!

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I hate to cut in (I'm a liar), but

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Because what happens between a farmer and an immigrant worker is their business.

If a person does work for pay, that work is by law the business of the government. I'm really sorry if you don't agree with that, but it's not your call.

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Originally Posted by Bradylama

As a voter, it is my call to make (partially). I don't get what your point is.

You can vote the law to change. Until that happens, any monetary transaction is lawfully the business of the government, and Farmer Joe is going to have to pay his workers minimum wage. Sorry.

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Originally Posted by Bradylama

So since when have I made a legal argument?

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Because what happens between a farmer and an immigrant worker is their business.

From a legal standpoint, that is factually false. That's all I'm saying.

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Originally Posted by Bradylama

And all I'm saying is nigga I don't give a fuck.

That's too bad.

I was speaking idiomatically.

That's not really fair, Mikey. Yeah, according to him, his ideals will win in either situation, but neither one will come to pass. He's doing the economic version of vore fetishism - it's easy to call yourself kinky when you make up a fetish you can never act out on.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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It shouldn't be so funny that the guys who insist on english-speaking immigrants can barely speak the language themselves.

It really shouldn't.

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