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1. Employers have had a history of colluding to exploit entry-level labor.​

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2. It is in the best interests of the nation that unskilled labor be able to earn a living wage. Else the taxpayers must assume the burden of their care.​

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3. Businesses are not lining up to pay less than minimum wage! People can not work for less than a living wage.​

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4. In the real world entry-level copy writers make $42,466 a year on average. That's $21.23 an hour. LINK​

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It's not me, foolish boy. Do you actually think I wrote the law decades before I was born? I'm just explaining it . . . as if to a child.

All true, but not the point. The point is you are an unpaid intern, a minimum wage employee, a salaried professional, or a self-made millionaire by choice. No one can force you to stay in your current situation if you want more and your current employer can't or won't give it to you.

Equilibrium wage and poverty level are relative terms. My brother just got offered a $60k job in LA. I could live high on the hog in Morgan City on 60k, but he turned it down, because you can't afford to even look at the housing market in LA on that salary.

There's a very fine line between regulate and dictate. Maybe that's where you'd like to go. Why don't we have the government regulate that when I increase my prices by 36%, my customers don't have the right to turn me down? Then I can afford the 36% pay increase you want to force on me.

Likewise no one can offer a wage so low that a person cannot support himself. Look, we are talking about 3% of the full-time working population that makes minimum wage, mostly in fast food and janitorial services. They are unskilled and have no choice but to work at the lowest rates, not because they are being forced, but by circumstance of having to live. The law says that there is a minimum rate that allows someone to do this, that is all. It is NOT an unreasonable rate. It would be difficult if not impossible to logically argue that it is.

Exactly. And I'm saying that the entry-level, unskilled jobs sometimes have to go up just like any other salary because cost of living goes up. I have an uncle who once managed the Wal-Mart in Avon, Colorado. He had to get permission from Wal-Mart to offer $10/hour minimums or he simply couldn't staff the place. All those ski resorts around drove up the price of labor.

I'm not sure who you are advocating for because no business that I know of is trying to hire people for less than minimum wage. You get what you pay for and less than $7/hours essentially gets you nobody.

It may be fine, but it ain't invisible.

Don't try to put words in my mouth.

I force nothing on you but some facts you dislike.

You advocate the government forcing something on me I can't afford. If the government tells me I have to give those people a 36% raise, the minimum wage earners in my place will not get more green, the will get pink slips, and I'll find a way to get their jobs done without them. My business is losing money right now, we are not some big, greedy corporation trying to maximize profits on the backs of underpaid workers. The best thing that can happen for my business would be for the USSC to strike down Obamacare tomorrow. If that happens, the businesses in this area who are sitting on their cash reserves out of fear might actually start spending money again. Then I will gladly give those people raises, because they work hard and deserve it, because I want to give them raises, and because I will be able to afford to. The Dems won't have to tell me to do it.