So, let me get this straight...

Cutting taxes at the top hoping for wealth to trickle down onto the workers is good...

But raising minimum wage to induce the very effect that trickle down hopes to achieve, oh that's bad.

lol

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smmartydude · 36-40, M

It's bad because now you will have unskilled workers (McDonald's and such) making $15 an hour, when right now people with college degrees don't make that much. So how can you have unskilled workers making the same as educated workers doing jobs they need degrees for? You can't...so their wages have to go up, too. It gets to the point where many businesses can't pay that wage so they either have to fire people or go out of business. McDonald's type jobs were never meant to support families...they were meant to give high school kids a starting point in the workplace.

Xuan12 · 31-35, M

@smmartydude Yeah, and the unsuccessful businesses get replaced by the successful ones. Capitalism.

smmartydude · 36-40, M

@Xuan12 even successful businesses can't afford to pay certain wages. Stop trying to make up fake scenarios where this actually works. Why should unskilled workers make as much as skilled workers?

Xuan12 · 31-35, M

@smmartydude Demand is one reason. Not many people have English PhD's, but how many jobs are there for that? On the other hand, working at the dump doesn't often require highly advanced skills or education, but the need for waste management workers is higher than the need for English PhD's.

And besides, like you said, they wouldn't. Skilled wages would go up too.