The problem comes with small businesses.
My family restaurant that was barely staying afloat would have basically doubled it's employee costs with raising the minimum wage to $15.00/hr.
The US Government and the "Rising Tides Lift all Boats" fallacy failed to tie the MW to inflation and cost of living increases. If you kept them tied, businesses could keep up with the influx of cash in their marketplace. Now, with large jumps in MW necessary to pay unskilled workers a minimum wage, it is an untenable situation.
I think the answer comes in keeping the average welfare payouts the same, and moving the money towards small businesses that shoulder the load for MW increases. So if an city/municipality normally paid out $XX in welfare, when all of these people that collected no longer qualify, you shift the money for 5 or so years into employee tax rebates for small businesses under a certain number of employees.
Some variation in that theme would help.
My family restaurant that was barely staying afloat would have basically doubled it's employee costs with raising the minimum wage to $15.00/hr.
The US Government and the "Rising Tides Lift all Boats" fallacy failed to tie the MW to inflation and cost of living increases. If you kept them tied, businesses could keep up with the influx of cash in their marketplace. Now, with large jumps in MW necessary to pay unskilled workers a minimum wage, it is an untenable situation.
I think the answer comes in keeping the average welfare payouts the same, and moving the money towards small businesses that shoulder the load for MW increases. So if an city/municipality normally paid out $XX in welfare, when all of these people that collected no longer qualify, you shift the money for 5 or so years into employee tax rebates for small businesses under a certain number of employees.
Some variation in that theme would help.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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