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S.6 Raise Minimum Wage to Living Wage; RAISE IT
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Wildeboden
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Because implementing a living wage will maximize the most amount of net benefits, I affirm the resolution that, “Resolved: Just governments ought to require that employers pay a living wage”Since the resolution uses the term ought, which means moral obligation, I value morality. The only way to achieve morality is through utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is the moral theory that is based on maximizing the greatest good for the greatest number. Thus my value criterion is maximizing the most amounts of the net benefits.
Use Utilitarianism when creating policies because:
a. Government policies entail tradeoffs
b. public action is required from the inability of individual action to achieve certain morally desirable ends.

A. A living minimum wage brings people out of poverty.
According to Dube, an economist, an immediate increase in the federal minimum wage is projected to reduce the number of those living in poverty by around 6.8 million.

B. A living wage will boost consumerism.
raising the minimum wage puts more money in the pockets of working families when they need it most, thereby augmenting their spending power.¶ Increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10 by July 1, 2015, would give an additional $51.5 billion over the phase-in period to affected workers, who would, in turn, spend those extra earnings. This projected rise in consumer spending is critical to any recovery, especially when weak consumer demand is one of the most significant factors holding back new hiring. Cooper and Hall '13

Raising the minimum wage means minimum wage workers have more money to expend which means more money ripples throughout the economy as minimum wage employees are able to spend more. -Halvorsen '14

C. Consumerism is good.

Consumerism is fast emerging as an environmental force affecting major business decisions as consumers become more aware about their rights. A broad recognition and growing acceptance of consumerism makes the firms more consumer‐oriented rather than product‐oriented. It is noted that consumerism tends to serve as an opportunity for those corporate managers who are able to identify and anticipate the consumer’s problems.

FOR THESE REASONS:
Article 1
Section 1. Raise the minimum wage to $10/hr
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Oo a tiebreaker

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Nay.
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Voting is Now Over. The Results are Below.

AYE - 3
NAY - 3

This Bill TIES. I herby enact the HR Tie Breaker Act of 2014 and cast a second vote of AYE.

This Bill PASSES.
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The passage of this bill contradicts with my Ensuring A Free Market Act which passed the House and is currently law. Does this bill override my one?
Edited by Zach, Mar 27 2015, 03:49 PM.
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Mar 27 2015, 03:48 PM
If I may,
The passage of this bill contradicts with my Ensuring A Free Market Act which passed the House and is currently law. Does this bill override my one?
Well technically it just raises your federal min wage but other than that I think it's fine
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I would think it alters the minimum wage set in the Free Market Act, the subsidizing from the states to handicapped people still stands.
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I don't think this bill even has the force of law though, because all it says is "Minimum wage should be a living wage", it doesn't actually set it so. In other words, I thought this bill expressed the view of the AS House on a topic without actually changing anything.

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Resolved: Just governments ought to require that employers pay a living wage
. Isn't this more of an opinion/debate topic rather than an actual bill?

For a bill that would set the minimum wage, for example, it could say:
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No employer shall pay its employee less than a living wage defined as $10.10 an hour.
(or whatever number you want)

In other words I don't think there's any contradiction. There might be contradiction if it was worded in the force of law manner.
Edited by CDLand, Mar 27 2015, 11:39 PM.
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Wildeboden
Mar 23 2015, 01:18 AM
B. A living wage will boost consumerism.
raising the minimum wage puts more money in the pockets of working families when they need it most, thereby augmenting their spending power.¶ Increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10 by July 1, 2015, would give an additional $51.5 billion over the phase-in period to affected workers, who would, in turn, spend those extra earnings. This projected rise in consumer spending is critical to any recovery, especially when weak consumer demand is one of the most significant factors holding back new hiring. Cooper and Hall '13

I agree with you that it could be worded stronger, though I believe he has set it to $10/hr.
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This bill essentaily enforces guidelines, the thing it does do is raise the minimum wage from $5/hr to $10/hr.
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