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S.6 Raise Minimum Wage to Living Wage; RAISE IT
Topic Started: Mar 23 2015, 01:18 AM (2,205 Views)
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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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I am extending voting for 12 Hours to see if more votes are cast.
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Voting is Now Over. The Results are Below.

AYE - 3
NAY - 0
ABSTAIN - 1

This Bill PASSES.
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This bill is now open for debate for 24 hours.
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Mister President, I believe that this bill would be contrary to the Wage Localization Act passed earlier by Congress and that the WLA is a much better alternative. Consider, for example, the differential cost of living in different cities and counties in different states. A minimum wage like $10/hour may be sufficient in say Manhattan, Northeast, but would be inappropriate in the rural areas of the West and South. This is an issue best left to the states.

In addition, I would like to caution state governments that minimum wages are not tradeoff free. You cannot simultaneously reduce unemployment and give workers more money through government fiat. Only innovation in the private sector can offer growth without tradeoff. Increasing the minimum wage would be detrimental to low skilled workers who will find it harder to gain employment, detrimental to small businesses and their employees who may not be able to cope with the extra costs imposed by the government, ineffective by targeting not only those who rely on the minimum wage as their primary source of income but also teenagers whose incomes are merely supplementary to the family, and imposes costs on consumers through higher prices. Keep the minimum wage as low as possible.
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Mister President,

I agree with CDland on this matter localizing the minimum would be better for local economies as it better understands the economic role of its state or county. Federalizing a high minimum wage will cripple local and national businesses. Potentailly having a low Federal minimum wage of 3-5 AD/hour would be better rather than an un described "living wage".
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I would like to point out that the Wage Localization Act abolished the minimum wage at the federal level and gave the states the power to set their own minimum wage. I am in agreement with the Wage Localization Act abolishing the federal level and do not support this bill.
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So it seems like a majority is in agreement, I motion to vote.
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Second the motion.
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