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There are Mcdonalds and similar fast food places in NYC and the majority of them pay the minimum wage, still today. That's likely how they build their business of course, knowing how many employees and knowing what the minimum wages are for unskilled workers. Today, like $9?, isn't that bad for kids living in NYC, as the majority won't have cars to fill up with gas!
Always remember, some will try and use factors for demanding a higher wage, and then 50x that amount of people will be waiting behind them for that job.
But being that everything is more expensive there, including income for the stores, they do have a better ability to pay more than the competition to retain employees.
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Wages are a form of communication. It's how the market speaks to you. The government shouldn't manipulate wages. That causes workers to be lied to.
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I believe the whole quote was...
"your days of Finger-banging old Mary Jane Rottencrotch through her pretty pink panties...ARE OVER!"
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“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
"when socialism fails, blame capitalism and demand more socialism." - A friend
"You know the difference between libs and right-wingers? Libs STFU when evidence refutes their false beliefs." - Another friend
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho
Oh, it doesn't, and therein lies the rub. It's basically been allowed, under the "general health and welfare" concept, but really, having a federal minimum wage is functionally useless, because we have a country that could fit all of Europe inside with room to spare. No one would try to say that the cost of living in Ireland is the same as that of Greece but yet, that is exactly what the federal government is doing here, with a much larger distance between the Capitol and the west coast.
By releasing it down to the county level, states can work together to even out their growth rate throughout the state, so you don't end up with the issue of Oregon and New York, where a single city is so populace that whatever that city wants gets passed, even if the entire rest of the state voted directly against it.
While it would help to raise the minimum wage in NYC (Though it needs to be incrementally, so that local businesses can absorb the cost, unlike Seattle, whose economy rapidly started to tank after they made the full jump), where the cost of living has grown way beyond the wage, the same is not true in Albany, NY even, where all that is needed is some more available rental properties to help bring down the housing costs, or the Hampton Roads area of VA, which really, just needs to keep moving with its light rail construction, in order to make the region fully accessible to everyone.
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The Commerce Clause really wasn't built to determine wages for, essentially, the whole continent. This is where I see the problem, that it should've been a matter of the States Rights amendment, where obviously, Washington should determine Washington's wages, while Oregon determines Oregon's.
Most really bad legislative ideas seem to be born out of someone trying to stretch the definition of Constitutional clauses. Wage isn't really so much a matter of commerce, but a matter of sustainable living/value for effort, and should be handled more locally for better results.
"Government screws up everything. If government says black, you can bet it's white. If government says sit still for your safety, you'd better run for your life!"
--Wayne Allyn Root
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www.FairTax.org
"Government screws up everything. If government says black, you can bet it's white. If government says sit still for your safety, you'd better run for your life!"
--Wayne Allyn Root
www.rootforamerica.com
www.FairTax.org
^^It was a joke. The Commerce Clause is very convenient to Federal intrusion.
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"when socialism fails, blame capitalism and demand more socialism." - A friend
"You know the difference between libs and right-wingers? Libs STFU when evidence refutes their false beliefs." - Another friend
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho
"when socialism fails, blame capitalism and demand more socialism." - A friend
"You know the difference between libs and right-wingers? Libs STFU when evidence refutes their false beliefs." - Another friend
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho
"Government screws up everything. If government says black, you can bet it's white. If government says sit still for your safety, you'd better run for your life!"
--Wayne Allyn Root
www.rootforamerica.com
www.FairTax.org