(February 13, 2014 at 11:44 pm)Lek Wrote: Minimum wage jobs were never meant to provide a living.
Yes, they were. That was precisely the very point of a minimum wage from the start. Employers were previously able to pay slave wages and workers often labored in miserable conditions that forced many to live in slums and basically be corporate serfs.
Quote:Small businesses are often operating on a very narrow profit margin and an increase in the minimum wage could put them out of business. Democrats don't care about people like that or middle income workers who have also been squeezed from both ends with stagnate wages and increased taxes.
I personally think that keeping kids from starving is more important than someone who's well off already making even more money. Certainly, corporate profits continue to set records while real wages continue to decrease.
