What impact do you think raising the minimum wage will have on illegal immigration? read more...?
917015
You are correct in your assessment,except a lot of illegal workers get paid in cash so the employer could still pay them what he wanted to any way.Still at $ 7.25 that's not a very livable wage but it better than $ 5.25.\nSmall cpmpanys will be excempt as they are now,from having to pay the minimum wage.It depends I think on how many workers you employ.\nI dont think it will have much of an effect on the illegal unless hes working somewhere that he gets a check and taxes taken out,then he may be able to get the minimum wage.
589053
The illegals don't have to be paid minimum wage.  Who are they going to complain to? INS?  Would you rather pay someone $4/hr or the minimum wage?
127086
Legal immigration is moving to this country by filling out the proper paperwork and being given permission to live here. Illegal immigration means entering or staying in the country illegally.\n\nNow, with regards to the economic impact. Illegal immigrants DO do work that Americans refuse to do. And that is because of the wages. Say Americans picked oranges and had to be paid $15 per hour plus medical plus benefits. Americans would be lined up outside the door to get those jobs, right? Are you willing to pay $10 or $15 for a quart of orange juice to cover those wages and benefits? I think I know the answer to that one. So, to keep your quart of orange juice at $3, orange growers have to pay illegals 2 or 3 bucks an hour to do the work.\n\nHaving "fair pay that allows economic participation home,food,clothing,auto,health care,checking and savings accounts etc" sounds all well and good, and I think MOST Americans would be in favor of that if it were feasible. You wanna pay $15 for your McDonald's combo meal? No? Then guess what, people get paid minimum wage. You wanna pay $20 for a pound of meat? No? That's why stockers and tellers get around minimum wage.\n\nMOST of the people in those jobs (tellers, fast food, etc.) tend to be teens and people in their early 20s. Do you know why? Because they don't have any experience doing anything else! Why SHOULD they have everything handed to them on a silver platter? They are unproven as employees. After a couple of years, most move on to a little better jobs with a little better pay. They prove themselves there and move on to something bigger and better.\n\nGuess what? That is the way of the world ... always has and always will. Some people don't make a decent living because they do not prepare themselves to be able to earn a decent living.\n\nWhen I got married in 1989, I worked full time and netted $110 per week. $440 per year. $5280 per year. And I worked my a$$ off for it. I chose not to go to college, but I spent ten years in the military getting skills. I never made more than $25,000 in any year. I got off of active duty and was offered a job making over a hundred grand per year almost immediately. I had sh!tty pay for a decade, but there was a payoff - and that is right now.\n\nDon't be angry at the "cheap bastards trying to play capitolist" (and it is captilalist, not capitolist). Capitalism is all about the law of supply and demand. If the supply (the workers) will work for minimum wage (the demand) why SHOULD they be paid any more? If they don't like it, they should prepare themselves for a better job.
882627
Well, in a nut shell:\nThe minimum wage will raise in September 07 to 6.85\nEvery year the minimum wage will be raised in accordance with inflation\nThe employer must keep a record of all employee wages for the time of their employment and three years after\nAny employee or someone working on behalf of the employee can obtain these records without charge to them\nSmall business's that have a prophet of less then 250K are not subject to the law...neither are family members or household employees, and servers.\n\n\nIf you have any more questions edit your post, I'll be back and try to answer.
746895
Because we refuse to get paid 2 dollars an hours. We dint' live with 20 people under one roof so we can afford to make 2 dollars an hour. Further more the federal government would never allow employers to get away with paying us 2 dollars an hour.Because it's the law. But hey what do the illegals care about the law. They didn't obey to come into this country. \nLike it or not it's the Employers that have to be the target! They are the ones that are giving illegals the opportunity! They are the ones that need to pony up! \nI don't want to hear about how we would have to pay more and keeping the costs down.\nIf employers can't find people who want to work for minimum wage. They can either pony up the wages or file with INS to have immigrates come in legally. Where they do have to pay them minimum wages.\nWhat the government has to do is get tough on the employers who hire illegal. Be it for domestic help or manufacturing or anything in between. 10,000 fine per illegal. That would make them change their minds fast about getting illegals to work for them.\nJust an opinion! However I think it's honestly the only morally correct decision. \nIf there is no opportunity then they will soon get the message!
382943
Correct on EVERY thing you have said....Nice job sassy. Not to mention..It is being said that prices of goods and services would be on the rise when we deport the "illegals" from our land. If this is the case..why haven't prices gone down as a result of there illegal employment?
922398
President Bush has been dropping the unemployment rate with his new awesome minimum wage jobs. I'm with Rosanne bar. We need to create a maximum wage, I think that will create more job opportunities. Huge corporations will stop exporting jobs because the cheaper labor in other countries won't help them see more profit. They'll keep the jobs here and maybe pay decent wages. I'm talking 100 mill a year. I think that's plenty for one person.
1065356
Price Stability (Low Inflation)\n\nIf wages go up then you cannot hire too many workers.\n\nExample:\nIf today Congress passed a new Bill to lower the Minimum Wage to $3.15 then most companies could hire almost twice the number of workers they now have and that would reduce unemployent.\nThat law is never going to be proposed by any Congressman because it would not be popular and that would cost him the election. Despite the fact, low unemployment is good for everyone it also causes less Crime and more Profits.\n\nOn the other hand, if the minimum wage is changed to $10.30 per hour then most companies would have to fire half the employees to make the same profits and that would increase unemployment and crime.\nIf a Congressman proposes that law it will be very popular and it will probably will give him an election. \nYes, the more damage you make the more popular you are.\n\nHigh wages cause inflation.\n\nIn the United States of America the wages are the highest in the world and that is eventually is going to cost millions of jobs.\n\nSince 1994 companies have been moving out of the United States of America to Mexico, China and India.\n\nThat trend cannot be reversed unless you bring the mexicans to the United States of America (As opposed to send the factories to Mexico)\n\nIn a company moves to Mexico not only employment is reduced but also taxes and if you are unemployed you cannot spend too much money.\n\nIn fact, Mexico is now the 12th richest country in the World because of this.
868790
People of ALL races will lose jobs. Prices will rise, then they promised to raise minimum wage again. It will be a vicious circle of inflation!\n\n\nInstead, why not install a national Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) or all?
730710
I have mixed feelings.  I have been through a number of minimum wage increases and all I've seen is the price go up and eat up any gains we had, as well as more lay-offs, less benefits and fewer full time positions.  The people at the top control the price and they make sure they get their cut first no matter what.  There is no trickle down anymore.  As it has been figured.....minimum wage still isn't a wage many people can survive on with prices the way they are now.  Whether you are renting or owning, driving your own car or taking a bus.  The essentials alone are taking too much of the wages to get by and still be able to save or meet the expense of an illness or injury.  It is survival wage.  If anything....it should be the pay elected officials are paid and then they might get a different view of the world.  They are looking from the top- down.  Maybe they should get a gander from the bottom-up.\n\nMinimum wage does not apply to a great majority of jobs.  Many people wrongly assume it does.  It does not apply to waitresses and pizza delivery jobs and some agriculture and even some businesses that do piece work.  It's supposed to average minimum wage but it in reality it doesn't.  Big business has discovered ways to even get around that.  Like a waitress.  They are sometimes paid a small wage and then the tips are supposed to make it up to the average of minimum wage.  For some...it's just tips only.  It is not based on the actual tips received but what you are supposed to get.  Unfortunatly people aren't forced to tip and many don't tip what the "proper" percent is supposed to be.  Then they started making it where the bus-boy and sometimes even the bartender get to take a share of the supposed tip while receiving less than minimum wage. So the waitress pays them up and gets whats left.  But taxed on it whether it's actually received or not.  Depending on where you live, the type of restaurant and clientel....you are surviving or can do pretty well.  People assume the delivery fee for pizza delivery is going to the driver and they don't tip.  Wrong.  Depends on the company.  Some pocket that and the driver is working for tips only, no gas reimbursement and usually has to do the dishes for free.\n\nThey need to start looking at the top as well ,before anything will be close to fair and a liveable wage.  As long as there's no accountability to the top dog, they will find a way around minimum wage if it was 100 an hour.  Sounds good, but not if it gets you no-where.
467998
Most of the world lives on less than 2 dollars a day. So a immigrant from Mexico can send money back and give an ok life to his or her family.  The minimum wage for US citizens is not a livable wage.  Thus, that's why people are not going to do these jobs.  You can't own a house, have a car, and have a wife and kids on minimum wage, that's why.  Secondly, undocumented people don't get many social services.  What's taking money away from our schools and other things is this war which cost 400 billion dollars.  If undocumented people would be taking this from our economy, that would be about $33,000 each person (12 million undocumented people).  Let me just tell you, you wouldn't see them standing by the Home Depot looking for any type of work then.
1076813
When the government sets a value for something, rather than the free market, there will be consequences. When you raise the minimum wage, you do two things. One, you make the cost of unskilled labor rise, sometimes higher than the actual value of the labor. Two, you devalue the people who have proven that they are worth more.\n\nIf I am paying a person $ 6.00 per hour, that is what he is worth to me. If he can find a job paying more, he is free to do so with my blessing! \n\nLook at this situation, for an example:\n\nI have two workers. One I hired last month, and am paying $6.00 per hour. He is still learning the job, and I have to spend time training him! The other worker has been with me for a year, and is making $7.00 per hour. They both do the type of work, but the second worker is more valuable to me, because he is trained!\n\nIf the minimum wage is raised to $ 7.25 per hour, I have to make a business decision. I will have to raise the  pay of both employees to $7.25. The new guy is not woth that to me, so he is going to be laid off. My other worker will be given the raise, but he will actually be going backwards in reality. He had worked his way up to a higher pay rate, but now is back to minimum. Prices will go up, but his real pay  (in relation to the cost of living) will go down.\n\nIf a $7.25 minimum wage is good, why not raise it more. Why not $17.25? Why not $172.50?
640426
Absolutely NO!  \n\nI posted a question earlier asking anybody to give a benefit of illegal aliens being in the US. I did not receive one.\n\nThey HURT our economy in so many ways. Some examples? You got it!\n\nThey send a large percentage of their earnings back to their home country. (The money doesn't stay in the US)\n\nThey work for less money for unethical employers. The unethical employers can then sell their product for less which severely hurts the honest companies that hire legal workers.\n\nLoOK at all of our high school students protesting to allow illegals. The illegals are already brainwashing our children to think it's ok to disobey federal laws!  What else do you think they're teaching our kids?\n\nIf an illegal breaks the law to enter our country so he can work for less than minimum wage, what would he do for $5,000 or more?  Terrorism? Smuggling? Drug dealing? Treason?\n\nNO.  Illegals aliens should not be welcomed!  They hurt our economy. They take jobs from our children, our homeless, our unemployed.  They add absolutely nothing to our society. They have nothing to teach our children, they don't add to our culture. They have nothing to add to our communities.
1158321
It gets worse... congressional members have increased their wages by over 30k since the last minimum wage increase.\n\nIt was legislation set to be doomed from the get-go when they made it so high. They should have just went for like $6.15.\n\nPretty depressing if you ask me.
401018
Yes ... I Think It Will Have An Impact- AND I SUPPORT It\n\n1-People Will Lose Their Jobs And Be Replaced By Citizens\n\n2-There Is CERTAIN To Be At Least ONE Incident Of Violence\nPrompting Washington To Realize The DANGER In Keeping The ILLEGALs Here And Ensuring The Full Endorsement Of HR4437\nWith NO AMNESTY\n\n3-There Will Be Less Traffic That Day
571867
I don't think they will be hiring less immigrants. Just less ILLEGAL immigrants. Hopefully this will force them to pay hirer wages also. They will have to start doing their homework and background checks (which should have been being done anyway) I don't feel sorry for them (the company's) they did this to themselves..
924915
Minimum wage increases generally don't effect much except the very low end items that minimum wage earner purchase.  Other than that it is generally a good thing for very low wage earners.