For one, if people went to school, got promoted, and still has a salary of $15 an hour, then I'd reconsider my priorities. By school I sure hope you dont mean college. College and $15 an hour? Jeez.
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1) Load the amount of weight I would deadlift onto the bench
2) Unrack
3) Crank out 15 reps
4) Be ashamed of constantly skipping leg day
Better question... what are you going to do with the massive amounts of small businesses that will shut down?
The $15/hour minimum wage outcry started in New York and California, where cost of living is ridiculous. You jack prices up in places where cost of living is much lower and small businesses will either shut down or the cost of goods and services will go sky high.
Cost of living isn't one-price-fits-all across the country, but nobody seems to be considering this.
I can't say I've ever seen my pay go up when minimum wage did. More realistically, I expect wages to stay about the same with very minimal change as the middle class slides closer to lower class levels of living. We're realistically moving back towards the rich feudal lords and the poor peasants with nothing in between.
Sanders gets into the oval office. Raises minimum wage to $15. Everyone else who was above minimum wage also demands a wage increase.
Companies mass fire their employees because profits plummet. Sanders makes millions jobless.
Oh, right, I forgot, the ones that do somehow manage to keep their job enjoy a 60% tax now.
So, if the state minimum was was $7.75 and you worked you way up (or if the position itself just starts at) $15 currently, do people think that position will suddenly increase to $22.25? In the fairy-tell world that should technically be the case since the $15 is $7.25 above the minimum wage, but sadly, I think there will be a whole 'lotta burger flippers/cashiers (see: jobs monkeys can do) making the same as managers.
I know right? How can those stinking casuals feel like they're entitled to the same rewards as elite raiders?
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
I think most people equate "worked hard" to "not every monkey can do the job I do", which is true.
Also, why do people think it's not somehow reasonable to believe that if an area (as in state, if a single state went to $15/hr), let alone an entire country, that prices of good will go up? It seems to make zero sense why they wouldn't. Supply stays the same, demand can now dramatically increase.
Aaaand this will hurt small businesses who might not be able to afford the increase for all their employees. Or, the value of the dollar will go down and we will be back at square one.
Also no smart company will just take that hit in their profits. They will increase cost of products and lay people off.
Actually, I don't have the slightest clue about Germany. Did the minimum wage, which the majority of workers made/make, go up by almost 100%? The prices of everything stayed almost the exact same? How did situations like someone already making that new 100%? Did thier pay go up 100% as well or were they still making the same as every other low-level employee?