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amak11 on 02 July 2014
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jamy30 said:

Minimum wage hikes don't increase prices, it just never happens in reality anywhere across the world. The people who forward these arguments are (shock horror) big businesses who'd have their immense profits curtailed slightly.

I'm from the UK and that was the argument brought against the minimum wage in the 90s but in the end nothing happened except peoples living standards rose. Same in Austrailia except they have an even higher minimum wage than us, i think it's $18 an hour.

It all comes down to what you think is ethical, If you work full time (so 35 hours a week) you should, I think, be able to live a stress free life, not have to worry about health bills or rent, food, childcare costs etc BECAUSE you work most of your waking hours. (Remember we work to live not live to work).

Let's not forget, it's known abroad that in the USA up until the 1960s a working man (because women didnt work much back then) on the minimum wage could provide for his wife and one child, now days that's a distant dream.

FFS the USA is one of only three countries in the world that don't offer women paid maternity leave, from the outside looking in it's disgusting :( Americans need to stand up for their rights.

See this guy gets it! ^^

Hell, in my province of Ontario, we  had a "right to work" bill put up and it was promptly shut down. No one wants to work for $7.25 an hour in some of the most dangerous jobs. You flip burgers, you also have to worry about grease and slipping and that damn grill. You make fries, you are sitting in front of boiling grease, that can kill you. These are the people risking thier lives to give you your food. What makes me sick is the people who don't want this to happen are the people doing the easy job of sitting behind a desk in front of a computer all day earning upwards of 80-200k a year doing litterally nothing physical. These minimum wage workers get injured they can get fired from the employer in the US, they have no worker's rights there. That's just an outsider looking in. 

If people really want a personal example of having nothing. 5 years ago, me and my family were forced to move out of our home of 10 years and sell it because my father secretly pulled loans out on it and never told anyone. We were paying his debt because he wanted to live a life of luxury while we were living well below our means of a 5 person household. Since then, we have been homeless and are now in geared-to-income housing after two less than great housing options (This place is nearly 3 times the size of what we had before). Many of these people commenting have no f'n idea what it's like to be homeless and unable to have a place to call home. We have a home now, but that is because of a lot of work I did for zero compensation....