Americans Are Worth More Than 725
The American people are worth more than just seven dollars and twenty-five cents per hour. If you live in America you probably know that a big issue in politics right now, is raising minimum wage. Many people think it would help our economy, but businesses that do not care about their employees try to convince us that it would hurt the economy by paying working human beings a wage they can actually live on. Big business owners like to make the point that they would have to charge more for their services or products and reduce the size of staff and/or hours worked by the staff. They also say that they would lose money and go out of business. However, we know a livable wage is possible for employers to pay their workers because Maryland, Washington and San Francisco have already done this. Also businesses will not lay people off because of having to pay a livable wage, if they could afford to pay less workers they would anyway. …show more content…
Also as a business owner myself I hate having a lot of turnover and businesses can save a lot of money by not having to train new employees all of the time. Increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage would improve our country because it would give people a wage they can actually live on and in turn that money they earn will go back into businesses because the people have more money to spend. It also create jobs, and gets rid of the need for a lot of our current tax money. First, raising minimum wage would help our economy because it would give people a livable wage. Right now minimum wage is not a livable wage. Right now minimum wage is only $7.25 per hour, so if you do the math that means you can only earn $14,500 per year on a 40 per week, minimum wage job. To begin, if minimum wage was enough, than we would not have minimum wage workers that seek and qualify for government assistance. For example, a McDonald’s employee named Andrew Olson, makes $8.06 per hour while his wife is making minimum wage at Dollar Tree. He says, “Tax payers shouldn’t have to pay for what we need to survive”. If tax payers have to pay for them just to survive when they both work 40 hours a week, than something needs changed. Thus, upheaving minimum wage to a livable wage standard would help this family not need to live on government assistance. (Los Angeles Times) Next, some companies will even tell their employees to seek government assistance. For example, in Connecticut a Democrat Legislator publically said, “We are providing all kinds of services that these employees qualify for because they are paid so little.” He went on to say, “We have even found out that some of these companies are steering their employees to these state services.” Therefore, the companies not only realize that they are not paying enough, but they go so far to steer them towards government assistance. As a business owner, I would never do that to any of my employees for two reasons. One my employees are worth more than that. Two it is not the tax payer’s answerability to take care of these people. (Los Angeles Times) Furthermore, a C.E.O. of a company in Washington, discovered that his employees, who were making over federal minimum wage, were still struggling just to make ends meet. For example, before he started paying his employees more he stated, “Every week someone walks up to me and walks me through the costs of living and they walk me through the math of earning what they earn and it just eats me up inside every single time”. Thus, his workers were making over the federal minimum wage and they still struggle just to make ends meet. In other words, this just comes to frippery the federal minimum wage could do much better for the people of America. (Christian Science Monitor) For all of these reasons, it is evident that minimum wage is too low, and needs to be raised to a livable wage. Second, raising the minimum wage to a livable wage, would help our government and tax payers because we pay a lot of money into government
The American people are worth more than just seven dollars and twenty-five cents per hour. If you live in America you probably know that a big issue in politics right now, is raising minimum wage. Many people think it would help our economy, but businesses that do not care about their employees try to convince us that it would hurt the economy by paying working human beings a wage they can actually live on. Big business owners like to make the point that they would have to charge more for their services or products and reduce the size of staff and/or hours worked by the staff. They also say that they would lose money and go out of business. However, we know a livable wage is possible for employers to pay their workers because Maryland, Washington and San Francisco have already done this. Also businesses will not lay people off because of having to pay a livable wage, if they could afford to pay less workers they would anyway. …show more content…
Also as a business owner myself I hate having a lot of turnover and businesses can save a lot of money by not having to train new employees all of the time. Increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage would improve our country because it would give people a wage they can actually live on and in turn that money they earn will go back into businesses because the people have more money to spend. It also create jobs, and gets rid of the need for a lot of our current tax money. First, raising minimum wage would help our economy because it would give people a livable wage. Right now minimum wage is not a livable wage. Right now minimum wage is only $7.25 per hour, so if you do the math that means you can only earn $14,500 per year on a 40 per week, minimum wage job. To begin, if minimum wage was enough, than we would not have minimum wage workers that seek and qualify for government assistance. For example, a McDonald’s employee named Andrew Olson, makes $8.06 per hour while his wife is making minimum wage at Dollar Tree. He says, “Tax payers shouldn’t have to pay for what we need to survive”. If tax payers have to pay for them just to survive when they both work 40 hours a week, than something needs changed. Thus, upheaving minimum wage to a livable wage standard would help this family not need to live on government assistance. (Los Angeles Times) Next, some companies will even tell their employees to seek government assistance. For example, in Connecticut a Democrat Legislator publically said, “We are providing all kinds of services that these employees qualify for because they are paid so little.” He went on to say, “We have even found out that some of these companies are steering their employees to these state services.” Therefore, the companies not only realize that they are not paying enough, but they go so far to steer them towards government assistance. As a business owner, I would never do that to any of my employees for two reasons. One my employees are worth more than that. Two it is not the tax payer’s answerability to take care of these people. (Los Angeles Times) Furthermore, a C.E.O. of a company in Washington, discovered that his employees, who were making over federal minimum wage, were still struggling just to make ends meet. For example, before he started paying his employees more he stated, “Every week someone walks up to me and walks me through the costs of living and they walk me through the math of earning what they earn and it just eats me up inside every single time”. Thus, his workers were making over the federal minimum wage and they still struggle just to make ends meet. In other words, this just comes to frippery the federal minimum wage could do much better for the people of America. (Christian Science Monitor) For all of these reasons, it is evident that minimum wage is too low, and needs to be raised to a livable wage. Second, raising the minimum wage to a livable wage, would help our government and tax payers because we pay a lot of money into government