Remove the federal minimum wage and allow states to dictate their own if they so choose. 15$ across the board for every state could never work. The GDP of most states isn't enough to warrant such a wage anyway. Even for Jew York and it's shitty cost of living with the inflation factored in at best you're gonna arrive at $12.75 or $13.00.
If you allow the states to consult with economic advisers to come up with their own minimum wage based on the revenue their local economy generates it will grow businesses and wages to as high as they can to compete with other states for better wages instead of everyone being forced into the cookie cutter minimum that is both too high and too low for many different states.
Lemme put on my economist cap and ask you a few questions then.
What state/county? what's the average cost of living for your area? Does your state/country have any industrial or resource boom going at the moment?
If you're in some SHITHOLE $7.50 may actually be too high and could be hurting business growth.
Adam Rogers
The Heartland Farms, Wheat and shit I'm not posting my county here
Eli Harris
Mostly agrarian then? No fracking or coal mining? Low pop per square mile?
Generally speaking if all of the above is you, unless you work on a farm you don't really have much of a demand for your labor in that area (and from what I've heard its getting harder for farmers as well these days). You're basically just living in an economic deadzone that trucks drive through to go to more important places and deliver their goods.
Unless there's a tourist draw or some other way to get money to come to your state you're labor is worth less since there's less people overall to capitalize on your production/labor. Depending on how rural you are and how low the cost of living is you could probably live off a minimum wage as low as $5.00 an hour.
This is of course assuming your taxes are nearly nonexistent and your cost of living is at the bottom of the fucking heap. If you're making minimum wage in a minimum wage style job you're probably getting overpaid.
Thomas Morales
To mandate or not mandate a minimum wage is useless as long as the (((federal reserve))) can keep printing money and make your labour without any value. By printing money you can just make everyone else go into debt by not giving them your monopoly federal reserve notes you create. Once in debt you can possess their lands with printed money that is worthless. So OP is a faggot asking the wrong question.
to tackle another point regarding income What all do you spend money on? ask yourself
A decent income allows for more liberty in your life but keep in mind everything costs money. It may be economically advantageous to co-habituate if you cant live with your parents. How much more money could you invest if you only paid half as much rent?
Also smoking, drinking, and all manner of other drugs are luxuries illegal or otherwise. Kick the habits and save money.
Then make a "fun budget" and stick to it. You will drive yourself crazy if you don't get some kind of recreation and satisfaction in your free time. Ideally any kind of "fun budget" should be %10 or less of your overall income. That's after deposits into your saving of course. Once you assign value to the money you've earned you won't spend it so quickly on frivolous shit.
Ian White
>but what about (((The jews)))!?! Well as soon as you become Furher and start up the mobile gas chambers I'll be the first one to shake your hand. Until then we'll have to work within the system we live in. Gas yourself you imkamphy kike.
Cooper Perez
big city near me set a really high min wage but surrounding towns didnt everything is inflated now even in the surrounding towns, there is seemingly no workforce, no jobs in the city and everyone is hiring in the towns but you cant live off of it so no-one takes them up on it the chinese place down the street has had a "hiring" sign for about 6 months now but as far as I can tell nobody bites
essentially almost the whole area is jobless and most of us are not even looking, businesses are having trouble finding employees despite an all time high in unemployment
Thomas Wood
How high? Mechanically there's nothing wrong with increasing the minimum wage assuming the local economy can support it. Typically you want to tie it to the cost of living. This sounds like it's where your problem stems from.
You can't really drag the cost of living up to meet your wage. The cost of living should drive the wage up organically through supply/demand of labor. As far as outside towns inflating their goods that sounds like they're trying to capitalize on the increased wages. Their fault for looking at the numbers. If your economy can't support the higher cost of living then your goods won't be bought. That in turn, will make them fire excess employees who will also be unable to contribute to the economy.
Real conflagration you have on your hands. Someone is definitely making a lot of money but it sounds like your local economy is fucked.
