Gallup: 76% favor $9 minimum wage

[Miles]

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[barfbag]

I'm always in the minority on this issue. Higher wages lead to higher prices which causes the value of the dollar to decline. A strong currency is good for foreign and domestic policy. I'd vote for this if it meant leveling off the highest corporate tax rate at 34%.

[Lief 🗽]

It should be considerably higher, but $9 is a good start.

[DC Al Fine]

I'd prefer a negative income tax and no minimum wage, but $9 seems reasonable. It's just this $15 or $20/hr minimum wage silliness I don't like.

[Cassius]

Of course they would. I mean, nobody likes to be seen as ungenerous or 'uncaring', which is why they give supposedly compassionate answers. So of course, their answer is ridiculously overgenerous...

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Of course they would. I mean, nobody likes to be seen as ungenerous or 'uncaring', which is why they give supposedly compassionate answers. So of course, their answer is ridiculously overgenerous...

...

Yeah, I'm sure they just polled a bunch of liars.

[t_host1]

Of course they would. I mean, nobody likes to be seen as ungenerous or 'uncaring', which is why they give supposedly compassionate answers. So of course, their answer is ridiculously overgenerous...

...

Yeah, I'm sure they just polled a bunch of liars.

...well, they didn't poll me, just be done with all this nonsense; no minimum, no 40hr. minimum and the worker carries their own comp and unemployment, at the conclusion of their work life said policies cash out if claim free or at lease within a range claim – claim free worker would have the bigger pay out. 

[King]

This is one of those issues Democrats should build an election on. 

[t_host1]

This is one of those issues Democrats should build an election on. 

  ..which direction? 

[badgate]

I make $8.50, and if the purpose of a minimum wage hike is to combat the disgusting increase of only part-time work and decrease low-income workers' dependency on government programs, an extra 50¢ won't cut it. But it's a start.

[King]

This is one of those issues Democrats should build an election on. 

  ..which direction? 

The 76% percent support obviously.  Minimum wage is one of those issues that would win big in a general AND, if they pressed early on, would cause any Republicans who support it to be defeated in the primaries.  A staunch Pro vs. Con election over an issues with 2/3rds Pro support.

[t_host1]

This is one of those issues Democrats should build an election on. 

  ..which direction? 

The 76% percent support obviously.  Minimum wage is one of those issues that would win big in a general AND, if they pressed early on, would cause any Republicans who support it to be defeated in the primaries.  A staunch Pro vs. Con election over an issues with 2/3rds Pro support.

the con's, as for the high minimum and the pro's are the liberty liberators to work creation, correct.

[DC Al Fine]

I am curious what some radically high proposals would garner. What's the support rate for a $20 minimum wage? $50? $100? $500?

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

It should be considerably higher, but $9 is a good start.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

It should be considerably higher, but $9 is a good start.

[Zioneer]

Of course they would. I mean, nobody likes to be seen as ungenerous or 'uncaring', which is why they give supposedly compassionate answers. So of course, their answer is ridiculously overgenerous...

...

Yeah, I'm sure they just polled a bunch of liars.

...well, they didn't poll me, just be done with all this nonsense; no minimum, no 40hr. minimum and the worker carries their own comp and unemployment, at the conclusion of their work life said policies cash out if claim free or at lease within a range claim – claim free worker would have the bigger pay out. 

Actually, there's a historical example of most of that; it was called the Gilded Age.

[Napoleon]

So of course, their answer is ridiculously overgenerous...

Nothing about $9 an hour is even mildly generous.

[bullmoose88]

I'm always in the minority on this issue. Higher wages lead to higher prices which causes the value of the dollar to decline.

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Why?  Taking your arguments/assumptions as fact, you'd be willing to trade all of those supposed negative consequences for a cap of the corporate rate of 34%?

I have my qualms about raising the minimum wage, I do.  I really do.  That all said, some data and support for our suspicions would help.  And at present I have none.  You?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Increasing the minimum wage drives wages higher, on average, and not just for those who make the minimum wage. Businesses don't like that for obvious reasons, of course, which is why they fight hikes by concern trolling about "teen unemployment." Decreasing the minimum wage would cause significant negative pressure on wages at a time when there's already a lot of negative pressure on wages.

FWIW, the minimum wage in 1968 was about $10/hour in today's dollars. Unemployment was a terrible 3.6% back then. It's amazing that America survived having such high wages back then.

[Arturo Belano]

It should be considerably higher, but $9 is a good start.

[PJ]

It should be considerably higher, but $9 is a good start.

This is one of those issues Democrats should build an election on.  

 ..which direction?  

The 76% percent support obviously.  Minimum wage is one of those issues that would win big in a general AND, if they pressed early on, would cause any Republicans who support it to be defeated in the primaries.  A staunch Pro vs. Con election over an issues with 2/3rds Pro support.

the con's, as for the high minimum and the pro's are the liberty liberators to work creation, correct.

So they're going to liberate us from liberty?

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

This is one of those issues Democrats should build an election on. 

Except that most people make more than the minimum wage and those who would actually be affected by raising it to $9 generally don't vote.

[Maxwell]

I am curious what some radically high proposals would garner. What's the support rate for a $20 minimum wage? $50? $100? $500?

I would too.

[Cobbler]

I'm always in the minority on this issue. Higher wages lead to higher prices which causes the value of the dollar to decline. A strong currency is good for foreign and domestic policy. I'd vote for this if it meant leveling off the highest corporate tax rate at 34%.

The minimum wage in Washington state is $9.19, and we are doing just fine.

I think the minimum wage should be increased, just not to arbitrary high numbers ($15/hr for example) just for the sake of raising it. $9, however, would be (and has worked) fine. Honestly, it should be higher than that.

[t_host1]

Of course they would. I mean, nobody likes to be seen as ungenerous or 'uncaring', which is why they give supposedly compassionate answers. So of course, their answer is ridiculously overgenerous...

...

Yeah, I'm sure they just polled a bunch of liars.

...well, they didn't poll me, just be done with all this nonsense; no minimum, no 40hr. minimum and the worker carries their own comp and unemployment, at the conclusion of their work life said policies cash out if claim free or at lease within a range claim – claim free worker would have the bigger pay out. 

Actually, there's a historical example of most of that; it was called the Gilded Age.

This has been a good read. Labor profiting responsibilities will play differently in the next expansion, there is no choice on this with so many idle hands growing in numbers.