The Dems are truly idiots. Implementation of a $15/hr minimum wage will eliminate 3 million jobs, perhaps more. Back will come the automated order stations within fast food, as well as other industries. There is a reason for why when one goes to a department store, there are no employees in evidence typically.
I read recently an article that basically implied that 60% of all current jobs will be eliminated over the next 10 years. Pushing a higher minimum wage will just accelerate that outcome.
My first job was working in a grocery chain store. I was paid minimum wage, $1.60 per hour. 15 cents of that went to the union I was forced to join. And I was happy to have the job. We worked our butts off. I worked a register, not using APCs, we had to know the price of everything and manually enter the data into a register. When not on a register, we stocked shelves, and at the end of the day, we cleaned the store. Today, there are folks on registers until 9PM, and then we have to ring our own items up, and there are separate folks to stock and clean. Very different world today. Folks do not work nearly as hard as years ago.
I think the folks indicating $0 dollars were implying we should not have any minimum wage, not that folks should be paid $0 dollars for their labor.
Something not mentioned much these days are the adverse affects of Obamacare on the labor force. Thanks to the rules of Obamacare, many that had 40 hour+ per week jobs plus benefits were reduced to under 29 hours per week and no benefits. These same people were forced to get a 2nd and in some cases a 3rd job. This is how so many today have multiple jobs just to get by, people that had full time employment and benefits forced by Obamacare into this nonsense.
