[BoLevi]

Originally Posted by PuckSlap

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The minimum wage was implemented to enable people to live. They call it a livable wage for a reason. But, for example - privately owned grocery stores in 2015 were forced to increase the livable wage to $15 an hour, at the same time they had to cut hours, increase prices and lose customers (including their own employees) in the process.

When you made $12 and hour, but we’re given 32-40 hours a week, Benefits and a better balanced work life balance, especially if you have kids or go to school.

But when you get your hours cut, and I’ve seen it happen almost immediately after the increase in minimum wage). You now make more money, but you now have to find another job, to pay the bills because you now only get 12-20 hours a week. That new wage doesn’t cover babysitting or daycare. Because those people now need more

So, now the people get hurt, the employers struggle to keep their place of business running properly and therefor lose customers, which leads to more cutbacks and more layoffs, hour cuts and so forth.

Yes, Walmart - Costco - superstore( excluding no frills) pays higher taxes. But they don’t care, because they’re not looking out for the people of the community; like the small businesses are. They are the ones that keep commerce in the neighborhoods and community’s

Minimum wage should have been increased at a pace that reflected the inflation rate starting in the 80s after the crash.

you have inadvertently described why minimum wage is a bad idea as it does not accomplish what proponents say it does, ie lift people out of poverty