You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.
If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
How can anyone live off of minimum wage?
Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.
The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
We have to raise the minimum wage.
My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.'
The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount of additional value, there's no net gain.
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
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