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the empty suit and the minimum wage

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  • Perfect presidential decree! Raise the minimum wage for federal workers. Wonderful a slush fund paid for by whom? Um yes the taxpayers.

    I think he should take tax money right off the top and buy me a beer.

    WSS

  • It's for Federal contract workers, not federal workers. It just means the company will have to pay their workers that minimum wage. Federal workers make well above the minimum wage already.

  • I know. I'm assuming that the federal government pays for federal contracts that in turn pay their workers.

    WSS

  • He should have given an executive order that all minimum wage increases. It would force businesses to innovate and use machines. As a result, all of the "I have functioning hands as my job skill" folks would be forced to make the leap into getting real job skills.

  • Probably a combination of that and of costs being pushed on the consumer, but I don't believe they're that bad. I think the numbers on McDonalds increases weren't bad. Plus, those employees would have more disposable income.

    I'm not sure which side I stand on in this issue. I can understand the merits in both (while trying to avoid the "moochers" narrative)

  • He should have given an executive order that all minimum wage increases. It would force businesses to innovate and use machines. As a result, all of the "I have functioning hands as my job skill" folks would be forced to make the leap into getting real job skills.

    @logicisforsquares said:

    He should have given an executive order that all minimum wage increases. It would force businesses to innovate and use machines. As a result, all of the "I have functioning hands as my job skill" folks would be forced to make the leap into getting real job skills.

    Maybe they could become a corrections officer.

  • I worked corrections for years while my wife went to school. After she became an RN, I went back and that is how I ended up in GIS. I never expected to stay at a shit job like that forever.