Should there be a global minimum wage?
546245
I feel that each country or place should have there own minimun wage.  Because from country to country prices vary.
693439
If the country was being run like it should be, we shouldn't have anyone here in the US living in poverty.  \n\nSadly even the minimum wage is a "poverty wage".  You can work 40 hours a week and work all 52 weeks a year, and you would still be considered living in "poverty".\n\nSo to answer your question:  Yes, the government is wasting our tax dollars and making impractical decisions.\n\nIf they were running the country properly, we wouldn't have to have a need for welfare, or be hated by more people than ever from other countries (war issue).
983110
Minimum wage does not meet the basic standard of living for Americans.
967833
Unfortunately, many people do not understand economics whatsoever. \n\nPeople who support a minimum wage should have a maximum-earnings cap placed upon them. The earnings could be used as capital so minimum wage earners could get more schooling and develop their own businesses. Pelosi & Kerry & Kennedy are rich enough.\n\nThe minimum wage schtick is just a ploy to get votes from the uneducated. It results in inflation and more jobs going overseas.\nIf it hasn't worked it over the past 40 years, it won't solve the problem now.
87039
according to most theorists, no.  They tend to argue that:\n1.) overseas nations are exploited by global corporations\n    *we take their raw materials/use them up for very cheap\n    *we hire their people at extremely low wages\n2.) because of globalization, the gap between the rich and \n    poor is widening\n    *the rich get richer and poor get poorer (we exploit \n     them to make higher profits-the less they make the\n     more we keep)\n3.) I would also add that jobs are taken away from   \n    Americans when factories are moved overseas.\n    *this will hurt our economy b/c we rely on a large \n     middle class of consumers to buy stuff
614790
Yep, that would work!  Never mind this baloney that people would be put out of work if employers had to pay a decent wage ... they wouldn't ... NO industry employs more people than they have to, with or without minimum wage ... does anybody think that just because the wages are depressed, more people get work?  Get real ... if a workplace need workers, they employ them!!
1187487
It makes no difference if you are a 'foreign' employee - the minimum wage applies to everyone.\n    *  Workers who are aged under 18 and no longer of compulsory school age can expect to be paid no less than £3.00 per hour\n    * Workers aged between 18 and 21 years can expect to be paid no less than £4.25 per hour.\n    * Workers who are aged 22 years or older, can expect to be paid no less than £5.05 per hour.\n    * Workers aged 22 years and over who start a new job with a new employer and do accredited training should be paid £4.25 per hour for the first six months only.\n\nIf you are not being paid the minimum rate, report your employer.
1049231
The border has nothing to do with that. The problem is that in the US computer job employees need/want more money and the company can go to another country and get people just as qualified who will work for much less money. The US economy is over-inflated compared to that of many other other countries. Either the pay for the other countries must all match the US pay, or vice versa.
467998
Most of the world lives on less than 2 dollars a day. So a immigrant from Mexico can send money back and give an ok life to his or her family.  The minimum wage for US citizens is not a livable wage.  Thus, that's why people are not going to do these jobs.  You can't own a house, have a car, and have a wife and kids on minimum wage, that's why.  Secondly, undocumented people don't get many social services.  What's taking money away from our schools and other things is this war which cost 400 billion dollars.  If undocumented people would be taking this from our economy, that would be about $33,000 each person (12 million undocumented people).  Let me just tell you, you wouldn't see them standing by the Home Depot looking for any type of work then.
750431
No way.  At least minimum wage unless the company or person has a contract for weekly wage.  And they usually want you to put in 60 hours too,.
348323
The Federal minimum wage in 1964 was $1.25, If that is adjusted for inflation to 2001 equivalents, that number would be $7.14.\nThe minimum wage did not apply to everyone or to every industry. States also have their own minimum wage laws, then and now.
501662
Sure, but you need to mention the other side.  \n\nIf gas was indeed $2584/ barrel, minimum wage would be roughly $268/hr using the laws of supply and demand and equitable compensation spread across the entire world economy.\n\nBTW - Cut back on the crack, you're driving the price through the friggin roof.  It's going to be tough to keep the masses enslaved at this rate.
702426
Pro:  The minimum wage ensures that mentally disabled/challenged workers are not legally taken advantage of, in terms of pay.\n\nCon:  The economic value of a job is not changed by the minimum wage.  Raising the minimum wage simply raises the prices of goods & services (inflation) and increases the attractiveness of foreign outsourcing.\n\nThe minimun wage is a great campaign issue because most voters want/expect a raise.  In reality, it is a worthless promise of increased wealth.  In relative, inflation adjusted terms, the minimum wage earners will still be poor and have the same buying power.
427782
I would say that anytime is the right time. At least, anytime since 1996, the last time they rose minimum wage. \n\nThe economy has really that boost since post 9/11 though. History shows that a rise in minimum wage have increased consumer spending power and overall, improved middle class financial responsibility by promoting personal savings.\n\nWith elections coming up for many political positions very soon, I actually think that minimum wage may become a plank in many candidates platforms. It is on a lot of people's minds. I think that it is really needed.
114075
Well that would be possible but this question is to vague to answer in reality. There is rent, employee wages, goods, insurance, etc that need to be considered. Good Luck
353767
I´m a free market, capitalism all the way kinf of guy. But what you are saying can only be posible if there were no unemployment what so ever. If there is unemployment, in a very minimized example, 4 workers can be up for 1 spot. Who do you think the company will hire if all of them have the same skills/lack of them? The one who will work for less, of course. So, minimum wage applies mostly for phisical labour, where, even if unskilled, plenty can do the same job the same exact way. Now, Jack has 2 daughters and a wife and Steve is single, if the company offers 4 an hour, Steve can say, give 3, i don´t care! They are going to hire Steve. In the low level works, skills and attitude are pretty much not needed to make the same product as your competitors. skills and attitude might get an individual to get better jobs as time goes on, but in the mean while, it doesn´t matter if you know what 5*7 is or have a smile on while moving piles of dirt form one place to another. \n\nIf you take away minimum wage, you might as well take away every other incentive and rights the work force has. No social security, no goverment interference what so ever. Soon, we´ll have another 1929 al over again! Goverment interference got the US out of the Great Depression... Read some Keynes, he explains thing better!
1136655
only if they complain about their wages