I have a question for people who don't believe the minimum wage should be increased? Should we freeze prices or even put a cap on certain goods to stop the price gauging? How can anyone reasonable believe in the idea that it is okay for salaries to stay the same while prices go up, every year?
I'm not all that great at math but even I know that if I have 50 dollars to spend on food and food costs 50 one year, 60 the next, and 70 the following year and on and on it goes but I still only have 50 I am going to be in some trouble when it comes to eating.
Even if I manage to get a better job and maybe I make 60 that second year I doubt I will be getting a raise every single year that I work to keep up with inflation.
If the business wants to they can just replace me with someone cheaper and stop giving me raises.
To me just because a job is low skill and you think anyone can do it only makes the need to protect those workers more or else or a company can constantly replace them with cheaper workers. You need to create a system were if someone new comes in to do your job that their pay is equal to the person they would replace so companies would see no incentive to fire people for cheaper labor.
Also I would make it a law that any American business that opens stores,factories etc in a foreign country has to pay those workers the same as they would a American worker. Maybe if we didn't allow this form of slavery it might even keep more jobs over here.
Jason
