Would you support a $15 an hour minimum wage?

[Cassius]

No. (Abolish it instead).

[Cassius]

Yes (normal)

I love the minimum wage hate on this site, yet whenever they put it up for a vote it always passes in landslide votes.

Forum full of horrible spoiled rich kids.

Hang on, there are also class traitors and scabs who hate on the minimum wage. Don't heap all the blame in the corner of us horrible, spoiled little rich kids.

[Cassius]

Yes.  Cut taxes for small businesses so that they don't loose revenue.  And penalize all large corporations that lay off workers as a result of the minimum wage hike.

So you'd rather they cut hours?

No.  Cut the salaries of CEO's.

There isn't going to be nearly enough there in most cases.

In cases where it isn't, then there should be exemptions, but if the management of large corporations and the profits the corporations turn up are both cut, then $15/hour wages would be perfectly reasonable w/o layoffs.

So it's okay for them to lay off managers? Even if so, if you don't have good management in these stores, they'll lose business - which lead to layoffs.  If you make regulations, you're going to have to live with the results of those regulations one way or the other.
What you are basically proposing is to make it harder for a business to be successful and then punishing them for being less successful.

No, I am merely proposing that they be afforded the same pay as their workers.  Shocking concept.

Well, if you are genuinely proposing that they receive the same rate of pay as their employees, then that is a genuinely shocking concept. Especially since the managers perform harder tasks than the workers and are thus paid more as an incentive for people to do those harder, more intellectually demanding jobs.

[Cassius]

I love the minimum wage hate on this site, yet whenever they put it up for a vote it always passes in landslide votes.

Forum full of horrible spoiled rich kids.

Hang on, there are also class traitors and scabs who hate on the minimum wage. Don't heap all the blame in the corner of us horrible, spoiled little rich kids.

You're quite right.  My only defense - he hadn't posted yet:

no.  minimum wage laws should be left to the states.

a very high minimum wage would lead to high unemployment and inflation.

I'm presuming they get sent to Mme Guillotine as well. Or perhaps a burning at the stake (my own favoured method of execution). After all, the latter would provide work for both loggers and carpenters, and could be used to teach kids valuable life skills (the aforementioned logging, lighting a nice, roaring fire etc...)

[Cassius]

You misunderstand the left-wing interpretation of what business is for. To some, it exists solely to provide jobs for people, not to make a profit. Therefore, no minimum wage increase, no increase in regulations and no reduction in working hours will ever be too much, as the business exists solely to provide social security to its employees (unless their evul managers and scabs, in which case they can go to hell).