Minimum wage of $7.25
The minimum wage is currently at $7.25 an hour. There are some people that currently argue that the minimum wage law is limiting job growth. Would your group support keeping the minimum wage law or would they want it done away with. Remember that the minimum wage law was not always around. For this topic think of your group in the present time rather than in the past.
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As a child laborist, I would love a minumum wage. It would mean a certain amount of money coming to support my family and also to support my education in my later years. Then they can't say they are going to pay me this much and deduct all the way down to zero if they want to. Side: For
Wouldnt you want more money to support yout family? If your happy with 7.25 theres something wrong with you. There has to be a lot more pay because of the lack of care the factory provides. The factories are reaping all of the benifits while they scaunder what they can give us because they are so greedy. Side: For
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high school students sometimes cant find jobs, there for they would do work such as babysitting that wouldnt make that much money, but they are still happy because they are making money, might not be alot of money but it is some money. and for high schooler now a day. if you are under the age of 18 they cant do alot so they cant work at a higher paid jobs. because you cant take tranning or schooling with out your high school deploma. and mimimum wage goes up when other thing( things you need to live) go up. Side: For
I think they should keep the minimum wage because as an employee and child who needs to provide for his family. if the minimum wage gets dropped i will have to tak up hunting and my family will sufer becuase i wont be able to work becuase of hunting. i wish it could be higher so the owners aren't making to much money but enough to keep their buisness and draw people in. they don't need to much becuase they will become greedy Side: For
I agree with you. As a child we need to be able to have some money, and know that our family won't starve. So if they minimum wage was taken away nobody would be garunteed a constant amount of money, which if there was no minimum wage we could be walking home without any pay. Side: For
I agree with you. We need the money to support our famiily and to support ourselves. We have to know for sure how much we will be getting so our family can depend on that. Without a minimum wage sometimes we wouldn't know if we would be making a less amount of money. Side: For
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As a unionized worker, I think minimum wage is a good thing. If there is no minimum wage, then bosses can pay workers pennies a day. The bosses will get rich while the workers are unable to provide for their family. This is not fair to employees. If workers don't have money to spend, businesses won't be able to grow becuase no one while buy their products. Side: For
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I think you should suck it up and work for less. The salary you get paid is good enough. The less you make the more I make. I don't really care that you want more money. I really don't need you because I can always hire a new person that will work for less. If you want to keep your job stop complaing about how much you make. I am paying you enough to live and if you want more money at home have your kids work too. Side: For
As a wealthy business owner i disagree with you because we should be able to pay you employees whatever we want, even if it is $1.00 a day. Yes, we will get rich but we have the right to because it is OUR business, i don't feel bad for the employees at all, at least they are getting some amount of money. Side: Against
I as a woman worker disagree with you. We are all getting the same amount but our families go hungry some nights because we don't have the money for it. if it was your family in my families' then you would want to change it you wealthy people don't know how terrible it is to go to bed hungry. you would rather be rich than help your fellow man! Side: For
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The amount of money you get will depend on how hard you are working if you arent working hard then you wont get payed enough.Its you fault for not working hard enough. Stop complainging when its you fault for getting payed in pennies. I am a wealthy business owner and if other business owners pay you in pennies for no reason that isnt fairthey you should find a different place to work at. Side: Against
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I am for it because it shows that you are atleast getting paid how ever much. But I also think that the wage should be much more money. We work our butts off for these companies and I think we should get paid a decent amount, to feed us and our family plus provide clothing and shelter. Side: For
I disagree. The amount of minimum wage is enough to provide for a family. And, if we didn't have minimum wage that would allow for other families to be hired and get paid. It would just be selfish if workers had a minimum wage while other people didn't even have a job. Side: Against
Yes there are the workers that would their butts off for the company, but look on the other side. There are workers who do under the required work and they still get paid as much as the people that work hard. It is because of these people that I think the minimum wage should stay the same. If everyone worked hard minium wage should be raised, but that is in a perfect world...we do not live in a perfect world Side: Against
But once again, you base your pay on those people, the people that don't work. Most big business owners overlook the fact that there are plenty of people underpaid that deserve more money. The minimum wage makes sure that those people that deserve more money are able to survive outside. Side: For
But why should we have to pay you a certain amount? why cant we decide how much we pay you according to how much you work? i think that if you are a hard working person no matter your age you should get paid more than someone who just comes in and is there for the money. I know some people would take advantage of not paying there workers alot of money but than their business wont run because no one will want to work there. Side: Against
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My Final Answer. Take it or Leave it. I can hire many other employees that don't complain. There are many other unhired workers that don't have a job and would gladly take it. It will not be fair for others if we decided to gave you a minimum wage. Money is important in the business to run and if we give out too much of it then there will be no business. Side: Against
I am a busy wife with 2 kids and money is a big issue. With 2 kids and a husband im always at the store buying food and other supplies. Minimal wage is not a bad thing but i wuold love it to be higher. If the minimal wage is higher than my family would be able to go on trips and have more money to do things. Clothing wouldnt be a problem and my family would be much more happy. Side: For
I disagree because what if you are not a very hard worker. If you don't work very hard them I am losing money by paying you when I could find someone else who will work harder and I can pay them the same as I pay you. I think the amount of money you make an hour should depend on how hard and how much you work. Side: Against
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I am for minimum wage because as a child, if there was no minimum wage adults would get paid more than a child. They would lower the wage of the children because we can't do as much or as good of work as most of the adults can. With Minimum Wage we get paid equally for the work we do. Side: For
As a female worker I believe that the minimum wage is a good thing and should be kept. Without it the business owners wouldn't have to pay us, well pretty much anything. They could pay us 50 cents and get away with it, and if we would argue it they would probably fire us. We wouldn't be able to support our families or ourselves. Side: For
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As a female worker I am for the minimum wage. Even though they say it may be limiting job growth it's also promoting equality. Without the minimum wage law, there's a good chance I wouldn't be getting paid good. Me and my children would be making less then everyone us because there's no reason for them to pay us equally. With the minimum wage there is always room to go up but everyone doing the same job is treated the same and doesn't get paid based on things like gender or race. Side: For
I agree with you. If there wasn't a minimum wage then our bosses could pay whatever they wanted to us and however low they wanted to pay us. Also, because we are females and kids, they could pay us less. This way with having a minimum wage they couldn't discriminate against us. Side: For
I think that minimum wage is a good thing because i used to get payed a really small amout off money and the owners of my compony are driving nice and expensive cars and living in the fancy houses. I got payed almost nuthing because im a female so it would be great to have a minimum wage so that i would be able to help the family even more to live and get a house that isnt falling apart. Side: For
I disagree with this because I am a wealthy business owner and if there was a minimum wage we wouldnt be getting enough money to keep our business in order and runing well. I wouldnt necessarily pay children less if they are working hard then they will get payed just as well. But if someone is not worknig well they will get payed less. I am paying you enough depending on hard you are working. Side: Against
I agree with minimum wage because as a child making $7.25 is good. That means i can buy whatever i want for the earnings i get because i work hard at what i do. So, if there wasn't a minimum wage than adults would get paid more than children. Since we have a minimum wage than we get equal pay for the equal work we do, even though us children can't work as hard as adults. Side: For
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We should have a minimum wage for protection of the common laborer. First of all, minimum wage prevents bosses from ripping off employees with a small wage. Bosses could easily pay a skilled worker a wage of $5 or below. That worker may need to take that because of the lack of other jobs. Also, it would increase competition in the job market because if you say that you would be willing to work for $5 per hour, someone could come in a say that they would be willing to work for $4 per hour and you would lose that job. Side: For
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I am for this law. Because employerrs think that they can make us kids work for next to nothing and be ok with it. When really we are not ok with it. Us kids have things to pay for too. If you wanna hang with your freinds or do something along them lines. Most likly its going to cost you money Side: For
But if they got rid of the minimum wage then people who work longer hours and have been there longer can get payed better. I think that you should have to work for your pay and show your loyalty to the company to get better pays. This way people will work harder and strive for a better life and better pay, instead of it just being handed to them. Side: For
We could strive for doing better but who would say that the rich buisness owners would give us better pay? They still might give us a low amount and we wouldn't be able to depend on that. I think we all strive for our best everyday so we don't get in trouble with the owners and so they don't decrease our pay. Side: Against
The minimum wage is good, because if you have one person making 5.00 dollars a day than other making 2.00 dollars a day you might get complaints from your workers that some is making more money than they are. So the minimum wage 0f $7.25 is a good low number for people to make. Side: For
Minimum wage is a great thing. It protects people from poverty. Minimum wage is already a very small amount in today's world and it's hard to support a family on minimum wage so it would be pretty much impossible to support a family with a smaller amount than $7.25. Maybe getting rid of minimum wage would create more jobs, but it could also increase the poverty rate in our country. I don't think minimum wage should be reduced at all. Side: For
I am a woman worker, I want the minimum wage so that I can work just enough so that I can afford food and other necessities that are needed and don't need to worry about my pay dropping during the week. I would also want more time with my family and I don't want my kids working until they have to because I don't want them to have to work in a dangerous work place but at the moment I can't do anything about it. Side: For
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I am for the Minimum wage of $7.25 because it's better to make that much than letting it go and not being able to support and feed my Family. If I wouldn't take it, I would be starving along with my Family. My Family's going to count on me to be able to support and feed them every night. Side: For
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I am for the wage because I need the money to support my family and to take care of them. If I wouldn't be supporting them my Family would be starving every night. My Familys counting on my to have dinner on the table every night. If I didn't it would leave them starving and it would be my fault. Side: For
As a child, I am in work to make money for my family and the only way that my family will survive is by earning enough money. If the minimum wage goes down, my family will probably starve. On top of that, the work that we are doing deserves a pay that is more than the minimum wage as it is. Side: For
I am for the minumum wage oof $7.25 because as a child I need to be able to make some money for my family. If I did not have a minumum wage then my family could starve and be working for nothing. That would not be good. So minimum wage is a good thing because it gives people the security of having atleast some pay to go home with. Side: For
I am for a minimum wage. Without a minimum wage, I don't know how much I would get paid. This way I know that we will be getting paid for sure and working for something. If we didn't have a minimum wage our bosses could make us work for a penny an hour and it could be a lot worse that $7.25. Therefore, I am all for the $7.25 minimum wage!! Side: For
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I agree with the minimum wage. Before. I was getting paid not very much, so now with the new wage, I can bring in more money. I think that the wage benifits both side. The new wage gives me more money to support the family. Also, the company will not go broke by paying us this. I think this is a very reasonable deal. Side: For
I would take that and add to my penny jar, thank you very much! More money being made than it was back then. I could save that profit in my money jar, and by the end of the month, I could easily have over $100. Why risk this oportunity? Business men can always lower wages especially $7.25. Most people would say they have a chance to make over the minimum wage if they are good enough workers, which I understand. At the same time though, people try to do they best they can, and what do they get in return? Less than the minimum wage. I am a good women worker, and let me say that I've been trying to work my way up the latter on every job. I never got paid that at any of those jobs. So yes, I am for this minimum wage. Side: For
I believe that the minimum wage of $7.25 is decent. At this age and time, many students who begin jobs don't necessarily need much money. If they really want to, they will have to start from the bottom and slowly get higher. Everyone starts at a lower pay rate and eventually raise higher the longer they work and the better they work. I think that for students just starting a job dont need such a high minimum wage if they dont even need the money. Side: For
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I agree with minimum wage because then the employees can live at least off of the amount they are basically making. If they are being paid $7.25, they don't have to worry about it going less and them not being able to make a living & feed their family. & Atleast have a job. Side: For
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Being a working woman of this time I am for this minimum wage because I need the money I deserve to support my family. Business owners can monopolize easily if there is no minimum wage, how? People like me need jobs and they have to take what they can get. Large business owners realize this and take advantage of it by have workers that work dirt cheap, giving them a very large profit. Adding a minimum wage would help this crisis. Side: For
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The minimum wage idea doesn't even make any sense. I'm the business owner, and I think I should decide how much to pay the workers based on how much work they do. And I believe that I give good wages to my workers even without a minimum wage requirement. Even so, if my wages should become too small for the workers to deal with, I say "that sucks" because they can always quit working and go work for a higher paying employer. Like I said, I make the decisions for my own business. It is an American truth. Side: Against
People can take over big industries and have most of the jobs in that area. Then people who don't have as much eifducation and need to work in that area will get such a low pay they might be in poverty. Once a ccorparation gets so big they can pay people very low wage and not phase them. Side: Against
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If the business owners are able to pick and choose who they want to pay more they could potentially lose a lot of workers. This is unfair and unequal because without the minimum wage you could choose to not pay someone as much as someone else for very irrelevant reasons. You could simply not like how the person dresses and not pay them well even though they may have very good work ethic. The minimum wage is promoting the equality of everyone who works hard and wants to earn their money. Side: Against
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Face it, it's reality. Life is not easy. You think my life is easy as a business owner? No it is not. It's like a mother with many kids; Except a business with thousands of whiners. My business would be like trash without you workers? Hek, I could easily fire you and find another IMMIGRANT who is more hardworking than you. Don't complain to us about low pay and working hours and letting immigrants take your jobs because without us as business owners there wouldn't a JOB out there for you. Side: Against
I would have to agree with you that there shouldn't be minimum wage, but the pay you get is depending on how much work you actually do. Because as a child we have been raised to work our hardest to help the family survive. So we should get paid for how much we actually work, rather than have a fixed amount that isn't even enough to help feed and cloth my entire family. Side: Against
As a wealthy bussiness owner i think that the minimum wage law should not be. There are plenty of workers that will work for next to nothing. As long as they have a job to get some food for their family they should be happy. I am not in this to be nice, I am in it to make as much money as possible and i intend to. Ill pay my workers what i want. Side: Against
I am against minimum wage of $7.25. I'm a wealthy business owner and I should decide what my workers get paid, not the government. The minimum wage will only benifit lazy workers who don't derserve to get paid that much. If the workers don't like what I'm paying them, they can find a new job and I'll replace them with somebody who wants the job and respects their pay. -Jake Wolfenberg Side: Against
I agree with this statement, 100%. I am also a business worker and I will decide what to pay my workers by how efficient there work is to my liking. If they don't like it they can find a new job. I wish them luck to that because many people are looking for jobs out there and there are plenty of immigrants and children who would be greatful for my pay. Side: Against
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If we didn't have this minimum wage we could be getting paid for less because there wouldn't be a set amount of money. The rich owners could give us less money and it wouldn't be constant so my family couldn't rely on my incocme. Also, if they do pay us less then we would have to work more hours and we couldn't focus on our education. Side: For
But if you get rid of minimum wage how are workers supposed to support their families and survive? Company owners are rich and don't need to save money, they are striving already and don't need to pay their workers less. Minimum wage makes it able for high schoolers to make money to save up for a car, or college, or even to sometimes support their family. If you take that away from them you will have less kids finishing school and going to college. Side: For
As a wealthy American business owner I believe that workers should be paid for the amount of work they do. Minimum wage is cushion for lazy workers, if the show up to work ad do even below the amount of required work they will still get paid $7.25. Where as the worker that comes to work and does above and beyond the required work still gets the same pay as the lazy worker. I think that business owners should choose their workers pay and their pay should reflect their individual performance in the work place. Side: Against
Workers need a minimum amount of income from their work to survive and pay the bills. Adults who currently work for minimum wage are likely to lose jobs to teenagers who will work for much less. It forces businesses to share some of the vast wealth with the people that help produce it. Side: Against
I'm against the minimum wage of 7.25. In the past, companies have had a minimum wage of less then 1 dollar, and they (the companies) were able to hire more workers who they could pay. In the present, I feel as if the minimum wage is restricting company owners from employing more workers. Side: Against
Why should you care about $1. Where is it going towards? Hopefully you have a good reasoning for it. I am a women worker by the way. For us workers, a dollar means a lot more than no dollars. We are not asking for a $20 donation, although it would help us greatly. I mean you say you need to be making more money when you already have by the millions and billions. Where is that money goning to go when you die? Are you going to take it with? Then that dollar shouldn't matter to you then. Side: For
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I am against minimum wage because I believe that people should be paid on their quality of work. If I don't believe your work is worth $7.25 you shouldn't be paid that. Also, people are always looking for work and if one person wont work for $5 an hour I'm sure I can find someone else who will and is desperate for work. Side: Against
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I think that doing this is unjust. You just don't want the minimum wage law out of greed. You need to give worker more for what they do. So what if there not worth the 7.25 an hour, that what firing people is for. You can't just monopolize the work place with the only jobs open having crudy pay. Side: For
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As a wealthy business owner I don't totally agree with a minimun wage of $7.25. I would like it if I could pick how much to pay my workers, I wouldn't pay them as much which would be a disadvantage. It would help me in the long run because with more money I could expand the building I am working in and hire more people to work and our business could move fast. Side: Against
Child Labor, I think that we should get rid of the minimum wage. Having minimum wage is gettin rid of job growth and limilting children to go on to better things. Children are losing education if they could just go and get a regular job and earn 7.25 an hour. Children are the new begining and should be expanding their education to go on and get better jobs with better pay. Side: Against
I believe that we should not have a minimum wage. I think I as a business owner should be able to choose how much I am going to pay my workers. The workers should just be happy that they have a job. I could fire anyone of my employees and hire a new one within 10 mins. I think they should suck it up and work for whatever I will give them. I believe the workers and government don't have a say of how much I should pay them. Side: Against
I dont think that there should be a minimum wage. As a business owner, i believe that i should be able to pay my workers however much i want. If they dont work and are just there to have a job and get money, than they shouldnt get paid as much as a person who comes in and works as hard as they can. If they are not working then why shouldnt i be able to pay them 5 dollars an hour? If you are going to work as hard as you can and you are going to get your job done in 2 hours than i will pay you 20 dollars per hour but i think it should be payed by how much work you do, not how long you work. Side: Against
I disagree with you Kollin, because there should be at least a base rule that keeps you're employees a little happier because otherwise they could be underpaid too much and cause problems within the compay. It should be high enough that it doesn't cause you to go out of business, and just enough for you to make a small profit of your own. Side: Against
But I should be able to pay a worker 5 dollars an hour if they arent working hard enough. If you can prove to me, as a business owner, that you are a hard worker, than i will pay you more than that. If you dont think that i am not paying you enough than you can find a new job and my business will run out of money and employees. So if i need to keep my business running than i have to pay my workers more so that they dont quit. But i am not going to pay you 7.25 if you do not deserve it Side: Against
I am going to get rid of the minimum wage because I am a wealthy business owner. I can decide what amount to pay my workers. If they dont like it they can just quit because im not changing what I pay them. They should be lucky that they would even be getting just enough money but paying them minimum wage would be just plain dumb because I wouldnt be getting any profit from that. So there shouldnt be a minimum wage because the business owners wouldnt be getting a good profit from minimum wage. Side: Against
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I am against the minimum wage of $7.25 because the owners of the companies should be allows to choose how much the workers get paid. If the workers and the government are making the decisions of how much the workers get paid then it could cause problems for the company. The workers and government could choose to pay the workers to much and that could cause the company to then lose money and put lots of people out of work. What would the workers rather have, no job or a job that pays around $6.50. Side: Against
Who every said you would be paying us $6.50? How about $3.50? I would still say no. Yes, your still risking the chance of not having any jobs, but common! $7.25 doesn't seem reasonable to you sir? It's a dollar more than $6.50. I'm sure that one dollar bill isn't going to use in your wallet. Ooo, that's right, you would have an excuse saying that the one dollar is going towards your favorite candy bar. Well, that just seems stupid. Think about it for a moment. If the majority wants $7.25 an hour, then you don't have to listen to us workers complain. How do you like that! Side: For
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Even if the difference is 1 dollar, it will be more than a dollar to split that profit through thousands of workers. A dollar raise for Every single Worker would mean thousands and thousands of dollar lost. Going down to the expenses meaning No Business, Meaning No Employee Openings, Meaning Nothing for you or me in the end. Side: Against
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We aren't getting no where if all these employees is yap about how much money they get. You guys are always complaining about not having enough time and money to care for your families. We as a company have to give out some of our profit to you workers. There are over 1000 workers and if all you want is money then you're going to have to work for it at a lower cost. Money is the most wanted item to keep the business running and if all you guys complain is money then there will BE no business. Side: Against
I am a child and that sounds great, if you have a lot of money to begin with. Me, I don't have anything. You make the odds impossible for me to go somewhere with my life, if I can even survive on extremely low pay to begin with. If you are making so much money, why can't you help out those of us that are less fortunate? Side: For
As a child I am against minimum wage of $7.25. The more you work, the more you should be able to make. Your wage should depend on how long you have been working there, your age, amount of hours you work, and amount of days you work. I think as a child you should get payed more, especially as a child, since I am younger and at a great risk of losing a limb and never being able to work again in my life. Side: Against
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None of my workers will get minimum wage if they want to have because they say they work “so hard.” To me I think that my workers are being lazy and they simply want more money. If any of my workers wants more money, they are going to take their normal pay or they will be kicked out of work and I will replace them with different workers I can find. I’m warning for those who plan to start a strike will be severely punished because they want more of their pay, so you better not start a strike or you will go hungry and you will sent to jail. All of you workers will get from $2.00-$4.00, but it will depend upon on the work that you do. Side: Against
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When you pay different people different wages, you are messing up our economy. Natives won't get hired and then we have a bunh of homeless citizens. When hiring immigrants for nothing you are encouraging them to come over, pushing citizens out of work. The government needed to step in and control wages. The government should have some control on the economy, not just the businness owners looking out only for themselves. Side: Against
I am against minimum wage. I think business/company owners should be able to pay their workers whatever they feel is sufficient. There are different types of companies that make different things and $7.25 may be too much to pay workers for the type of job they are doing! Side: Against
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As a wealthy business owner, minimum wage seems pointless. I pay my workers depending on how hard they work. If they choose to slack off while working, they don't deserve the minimum wage of $7.25. If a worker doesn't like the pay they are recieving, the can just quit and find a new job. Side: Against
i too am a wealthy business owner and i think that the workers wages should depend on how hard they work and how quickly they produce our product. If i have to pay my workers a minimum wage and someone dosent work as hard as the other that dosent make sence. If they dont want to get paid what i am paying them then they can quit. Goodluck trying to find another job that is higher paying. Side: Against
as a buisness owner i am against minimum wage because its my company and i feel that i should be able to pay my workers what i think the deserve weather its $2 or its $20 not people telling me what i have to pay them. i want to have more money for myself and my family. Side: Against
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Would you really pay them the amount they deserve, or would you just pay them whatever you felt like giving so that you could make more money? In the end, by having the "if you don't like it, you can leave" attitude, you will not get qualified workers because they will want a higher wage Side: For
Business men act like they own the entire country. Who were you when you first moved to America? A poor person or rich? I think you should have some sharing and caring time with your workers. There probably all poor in your business and you get credited with everything they do for you. You would pay your workers less, and you know it! Don't you dare make up lies that end up as a bloody result. All I can state know is that $7.25 seems more logical than being paid less. Side: For
i am also a buisness owner and i would pay them what i feel they deserve. now if people agree with that or dissagree with that thats there opinion but i would use my best judgment but also not get too crazy on my numbers! us buisness owners have to make money too you know. we cant just go nuts on what we pay the workers! there would be plenty of workers out there that would be more than happy to take there places and get paid the same or even less wages! Side: Against
I am a woman worker and I don't think that this business owner says that if I work hard then I will get better pay. The average pay for woman workers is $9 per week and that is about what I get and I work very hard at work. The women that I work with and I need to work because other wise we can't support our families. and if we did leave there wouldn't be any better jobs for us to find. Side: For
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