Minimum Wage Protest
| I wept, hearing an interview with a young single mother making minimum wage was truly sad. However, I wept over what she said. She did not use these words. However, she wanted lawmakers to FORBID by law, her, my teenagers and millions of others from selling their labor for what their labor is worth. There is no slavery in this country, and if she wanted to set a minimum wage for herself, she is more than welcome to negotiate for the $15 an hour and not accept the job for less. |  |
 | Fast food companies could pay $15 to much more competent employees that could do the work of 2 minimum wage workers. They could buy more automated machines that require fewer employees or they could go out of business. If the minimum wage were raised to double the current rate, a high percentage of those close to the minimum wage would lose their job because lawmakers choose to protect these people by forbidding them to work. |
| There are those that lack skill, experience, responsibility, ability, wisdom, self-control or a clean criminal record. In a tight job market, employers would naturally hire people that do not lack these essential fundamentals components. People would be forbidden from outbidding others. Many things determine pay rates. Certainly, the employee’s needs are essential to the employee and should negotiate hours and pay rates. Productivity and providing worth to the employer is essential to the employer. |  |
 | An employer needs to be able to sell the product or service to cover the cost of payroll. There are many factors; however, employees need always to keep business concerns in mind. If an employee can lower overhead or increase quality, customer retention or otherwise bring in more business at a higher selling point, the employee would show they are producing greater worth and can demand higher pay. |
