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darude said:like i said before alot of business will go under or they will go automated so they won't have to pay the 15.00 minimum wage!!! though as a business owner if i'm paying someone minimum wage it's NOT my problem if they can't afford to live on what i pay them as minimum wage was never intended to be a salary for someone to live on and start a family.. now why don't some of the low wage workers go to college and get a degree or some kind of trade that they can use to make more money??
Umm that's exactly what minimum wage was meant to be. Quote from FDR himself: "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country"
and was quite specific on what living wages were: "By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level, I mean the wages of a decent living"
I don't necessarily believe government should tell private companies what they have to pay, but I do think private companies should pay their fellow humans a decent wage. But that system doesn't work because money makes some people horrible human beings. You don't have to look back in history very far to see what happens when companies could do as they pleased and just take a look at China today if you think people wouldn't act like they did 100 years ago today.