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Our ghastly Minimum Wage

No, that is not ALL WE NEED!

Even at $15 an hour, you can't employ people at jobs that the Chinese will do at one tenth that cost!

We must take our people to "up-market jobs" in terms of generalized expertise, and for that THERE IN NO ESCAPING POST-SECONDARY SCHOOLING.

Meaning either vocational at the high-school level or post-secondary diploma-bearing levels. Which means this: The US must make a national investment in post-secondary education JUST AS IT DID FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY.

So, let's stop the wastage of far too much DoD-funding* when the world is generally at peace. And invest those funds in enhancing qualifications of our working citizens by continuing onto a higher educational level FREE, GRATIS & FOR NOTHING. Regardless of age!

*Total DoD F-35 funding over ten years: $345B. For $34.5B per year we can send 2000 students onto Tertiary Level programs costing the average $12K a year at state-schools in America.

A simple cost of living adjustment and an upward pressure on wages, is what we want to achieve.
 
A simple cost of living adjustment and an upward pressure on wages, is what we want to achieve.

Which remains a half-measure if they have no education, which is the case of most below the Poverty Threshold.

The solution is NEVER as simple as some may think. It is very complex and includes a great many other issues other than just Minimum Wage levels being raised.

Central to those issues is level of education that permits those working at the Minimum Wage level to augment considerably their family income. Even a high-school student with a professional degree of truck-driver will be hired immediately and make more money.

"Competence Credentials" are that important ...
 
Which remains a half-measure if they have no education, which is the case of most below the Poverty Threshold.

The solution is NEVER as simple as some may think. It is very complex and includes a great many other issues other than just Minimum Wage levels being raised.

Central to those issues is level of education that permits those working at the Minimum Wage level to augment considerably their family income. Even a high-school student with a professional degree of truck-driver will be hired immediately and make more money.

"Competence Credentials" are that important ...

Why do you believe Individuals practicing their capital Liberty would not want to become more marketable and more valuable under Any form of Capitalism, ceteris paribus?
 
Why do you believe Individuals practicing their capital Liberty would not want to become more marketable and more valuable under Any form of Capitalism, ceteris paribus?

What do you mean by "capital liberty"?

Please send a link to its definition ...
 
Raise your skills, raise your value. There it is...all you need to know.

Raise your skills means getting a post-graduate degree. And that's what stops 45% of our children from obtaining one.

See historical comparison of post-secondary achievement amongst OECD countries here ....
 
Raise your skills means getting a post-graduate degree. And that's what stops 45% of our children from obtaining one.

See historical comparison of post-secondary achievement amongst OECD countries here ....

For some that may be true. But how is an employer responsible for that? But that's not the only way to improve your skills.
 
All they want is a decently livable wage,]


and they are free to obtain the skills necessary get that wage or higher thanks to the Republican freedom we enjoy. Requiring an employer to pay a minimum
wage would raise prices and unemploy all those not worth the minimum wage; so no net benefit is possible but much harm is possible.

And let's never forget that minimum wage interference is just 1 of 10001 ways the libcommies want to interfere with and destroy our economy.
 
For some that may be true. But how is an employer responsible for that? But that's not the only way to improve your skills.

An employer is not "responsible" for robotic automation of manufacturing processes. But they are responsible for making a profit, which is why most have turned quickly to robotic-manufacturing in order to stay in business.

In going from the Industrial Age to the Information Age the skill-sets necessary are an order of magnitude higher (for jobs at a higher than lower-to-average salary-range.

Which in the US is any salary above $60K a year ...
 
and they are free to obtain the skills necessary get that wage or higher thanks to the Republican freedom we enjoy. Requiring an employer to pay a minimum
wage would raise prices and unemploy all those not worth the minimum wage; so no net benefit is possible but much harm is possible.

And let's never forget that minimum wage interference is just 1 of 10001 ways the libcommies want to interfere with and destroy our economy.

we really just need a fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage, unemployment compensation for being unemployed on an at-will basis in our at-will employment States, and Industrial Automation to help with social costs.

it is not unreasonable, in modern times.
 
we really just need a fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage, unemployment compensation for being unemployed on an at-will basis in our at-will employment States, and Industrial Automation to help with social costs.

it is not unreasonable, in modern times.

You keep repeating the same, moronic nonsense. If UI compensation (for simply electing not to work) is $14/hour and the MW is $15/hour then the effective (net?) increase for taking any MW job would be only $1/hour. One could easily make more than that ($8/day) by mowing a single lawn per day and not reporting that income.

Looked at another way - if two folks (the typical couple) simply decided not to work then thier combined UI benefit income would be $56K/year or nearly as much as the current median US houshold income of $59K/year. By adding one more full-time, adult, loafer to their 100% government subsidized household then they would exceed the current median US household income by a comfortable margin.

Implementing such a system would be outright insanity.
 
You keep repeating the same, moronic nonsense. If UI compensation (for simply electing not to work) is $14/hour and the MW is $15/hour then the effective (net?) increase for taking any MW job would be only $1/hour. One could easily make more than that ($8/day) by mowing a single lawn per day and not reporting that income.

Looked at another way - if two folks (the typical couple) simply decided not to work then thier combined UI benefit income would be $56K/year or nearly as much as the current median US houshold income of $59K/year. By adding one more full-time, adult, loafer to their 100% government subsidized household then they would exceed the current median US household income by a comfortable margin.

Implementing such a system would be outright insanity.

why would anyone Want to commit fraud if they don't have to?
 
why would anyone Want to commit fraud if they don't have to?

Why would anyone work for $1/hour net if they don't have to? My point was that income from doing 'chores' like lawn mowing, baby sitting or house cleaning (what basically amounts to an allowance) is not reported - I am 100% sure that you do not report as income the money that your mother gives you for helping around the house. You have yet to explain why you will not work for MW now (at least 8$/hour net?) yet feel entitled to be paid ($14/hour net?) simply for not doing so.
 
Why would anyone work for $1/hour net if they don't have to? My point was that income from doing 'chores' like lawn mowing, baby sitting or house cleaning (what basically amounts to an allowance) is not reported - I am 100% sure that you do not report as income the money that your mother gives you for helping around the house. You have yet to explain why you will not work for MW now (at least 8$/hour net?) yet feel entitled to be paid ($14/hour net?) simply for not doing so.

Capitalism. Fifteen an hour is still, fifteen an hour; and employers can offer employment benefits and a bonus, besides.
 
In going from the Industrial Age to the Information Age the skill-sets necessary are an order of magnitude higher (for jobs at a higher than lower-to-average salary-range.
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its not an issue. IBM became the world's biggest and most profitable company before schools and universities even began teaching computer science. A company will train the workers it needs or go bankrupt. Guess which they will choose? Free education is just 1 of 10001 ways a libcommie will seek to enlarge the govt toward communism. 1+1=2
 
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