Should minimum wage laws be repealed?

We worked hard for those reforms and they are barely enough. At the time, these ideas were so radical that people died for them in confrontations between unions, workers, corporate cronies and the police. Still it is only half the fight, in Canada we continued this struggle to get greater state subsidies for post-secondary education and universal healthcare.

That is where the American labour debate should be. Why you let people who want to abolish your already astonishingly low minimum wage is unbelievably? When I worked as minimum wage worker in Manitoba I made $9/hour (I am now a Combat Engineer).

That's only 72 dollars per day not a lot of money for a student like myself. I was able to survive but barely. I could not imagine having to raise a family one that wage, it would be horrible.

I have worked with single income families making this and I can tell you it isn't a hell of a lot and for the work these people do, barely enough. Corporations should be more bound to the interests of all their employees. What makes a CEO worth a million dollars per year?

The element of risk and intuition required to run a business makes a higher salary fair, but it should not exceed 40X what the lowest worked makes. If the company does well all should benefit from profit not just the top and that is what a fair minimum wage guarantees. Why would you let the things that you Americans started and worked hard for slip away to line the pockets of the wealthy?

What do you expect to happen with no minimum wage? I'll tell you what will happen, the poor who make 9$/hour now, will make 2$/hour and have no rights and starve. It will kill the middle class and allow capitalism to turn to social Darwinism like Victorian England.

Sure, let's abolish all that useless Big Government regulation. For instance, why should workers be paid any money at all? Back before the New Deal when we still had freedom, workers were frequently paid in scrip notes which weren't legal currency, and could only be redeemed at special stores run by their employers.

Workers who weren't paid in real money lived where the company said, wore what the the company put up for sale, and voted for whomever the company told them to. But those da**ed liberals had to mess up a system which worked just fine. And, as Rand Paul points out, mining was much better before all those useless safety regulations came along.

Get rid of all those pointless regulations, and the mining business will thrive again, just like in the good old days. Granted, back then we had 6.000 deaths a year in mining accidents, and today it's more like 10 in an average year, but if that's the cost of freedom, any red-blooded American ought to accept it. After all, keeping our free market health insurance instead of socialized medicine costs us 45,000 deaths a year, along with trillions of dollars, and everybody seems happy with that.

And then we can dump those pointless child labor laws. Why should 8 and 9 year old kids be sitting in some classroom wasting taxpayer money when they could be working on an assembly line, doing work that causes hardly any deaths or debilitating accidents. Okay, actually, child labor used to cause a pretty high number of deaths and disabilities, but that mostly happened to very poor people, so it isn't as if they had much to lose, or really counted anyway.

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