Put the politicians on minimum wage and then watch how fast things will change, amirite?

Raising minimum wage doesn't help the economy. What it does is forces business owners to cut employee hours or even resort to layoffs because it can't afford to pay all of it's employees a higher minimum wage. This means that in the end, the minimum wage employees aren't making any more than they started off with.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Re-read the post. They didn't say anything about raising minimum wage.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Minimum wage was mentioned and therefore, I decided to comment about it being raised because I can.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It raising the economy was not and your comment was irrelevant

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I didn't say that the change would necessarily be a raise in minimum wage... We debated this issue once in a rotary competition and the main point that came up was that if the politicians were earning minimum wage, it would motivate them to improve economic and social standards as well as the fact that only people genuinely enthusiastic about public service would then go into politics, if there was no monetary incentive.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Only people genuinely enthusiastic and ALREADY WEALTHY would go into politics for minimum wage. Whose interest would that really serve?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's like saying people only become teacher's if they're already rich.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Teachers don't earn minimum wage. People at fast food joints earn minimum wage.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And? So U guess people who earn min. wage only have that job vuz they love it,

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't understand what point you're trying to make. People have minimum wage jobs because that's all they can get, or money is no real issue. Nobody could buy a house, pay bills, and support a family on minimum wage. At my last job I earned much more than minimum and I was still broke as fuck.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yep I posted something like this a while ago you copier

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think you mistook the comments box for the report box. I searched and nothing came up.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Look at my posts bro. I got it homepaged

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Things would probably much worse. They would probably get even more money from special interest groups to make up for the lost salary

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A better idea would be to disallow large companies to "sponsor" politicians or let those with interest in large companies into politics. And possibly cap the maximum income for all people. and let the rest be taxes or income for the little people.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Cap income? Are you kidding? What is this, communist China?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Could be. Who knows..? do people really need more than a couple million a year though?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Congress chooses their own pay so that's never going to happen, the only politician who would agree to that is Ron Paul. He wants his salary if he becomes president to be 35k instead of the current 400k. Though he would have to get congress to lower it before he takes office.

by Anonymous 12 years ago