Minimum Wage

When it comes to the minimum wage, everyone has a different opinion. It seems as though democrats tend to want to raise the minimum wage and republicans want to keep it the same. Most democrats want to raise it by a few dollars but some extreme democrats want to raise minimum wage to double what it is now at $15 an hour. Of course there are also extreme republicans that want to get rid of the minimum wage all together to maximize efficiency within business. Personally, I don't think the minimum wage should be raised above 8 bucks. If a high schooler lands a job when he/she (I'm just gonna say he) is 16 and is making 10 bucks an hour, he might be encouraged to live off of that wage and drop out of high school to work full time. And if he can actually live off of this wage then good for him but what happens when more and more high schoolers drop out to make money instead of spending it on college? America won't have people encouraged to continue their education and pursue the jobs we need people to have. So what would we do to fix that? America would have to raise the wage of every job to encourage people to want those jobs. But how are businesses going to make make money now that they have to pay all their workers extra money? lets take 5 Guys as an example. This burger place is designed to be run by 5 people at a time. Lets say they work an 8 hour day. If minimum wage went up $2, then to pay these 5 workers they would be paying an extra $80 a day. So businesses, in order to not go into debt, will either raise the price of their product and you will be buying $15 big macs or they will fire workers and have them work fewer hours. Now it will be harder to find a job and unemployment will go up. I think the minimum wage as it is today is A-okay. I think that adults that didn't apply themselves in high school and complain about their wage now only have themselves to blame and should stop bitching at society. That being said, I think teacher salaries should be raised as that is an underpaid  job especially since they don't get paid for all the hours that they acutely work that isn't shown on paper. But until inflation drives down the price of the dollar by much more, when you want to pay a person who flips burgers or puts items in a bag all day $10 an hour, I think it is safe to say you are a lunatic. There are people that work much harder that make that same wage. I don't agree with the radical republicans that want to get rid of the minimum wage however. I think it will only lead to wages so low that high schoolers would not want to work them and then people will go on strike and again unemployment will go up. This will cause an even further separation between the wealth of the 1% and the rest of America.