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S.6 Raise Minimum Wage to Living Wage; RAISE IT
Topic Started: Mar 23 2015, 01:18 AM (2,216 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:
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Section 1. Raise the minimum wage to $10/hr
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"Final question: Do we really have to buy all the time? "

No we should invest which is why it's bad policy to take from the rich and give to the poor :P
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Mar 23 2015, 04:33 PM
Stop watching Fox News, glenn.
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Mar 23 2015, 04:33 PM
Stop watching Fox News, glenn.
Which part of my argument specifically do you disagree with?
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By the way I terribly dislike Glenn Beck and think he's doing damage to the cause of conservatism and libertarianism.
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Mar 23 2015, 04:38 PM
By the way I terribly dislike Glenn Beck and think he's doing damage to the cause of conservatism and libertarianism.
I thought Glenn Beck was a pretty good Libertarian, how exactly is he damaging it?
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The part where MW destroys the economy.

(OOC: Wow. TIL even Libertarians hate Glenn Beck.)
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Can we move this to a vote?
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Ideologically he's fine if a bit radical but he grandstands by saying things like "I'm done with the Republican party" and he's incapable of drawing distinctions between people who recognize that a tactic is doomed to fail (like shutting down the government) and people who are genuinely anti-liberty.

EDIT: Well I'm a bit of an establishment libertarian which is a bit contradictory lol.
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To glenn Beck. Everything that contradicts his views is Socialism.
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Mar 23 2015, 04:41 PM
The part where MW destroys the economy.

(OOC: Wow. TIL even Libertarians hate Glenn Beck.)
It wouldn't destroy the economy (especially a small increase like say to $10.10). Only about 4% of wage workers make the minimum wage anyways so it's not a big deal. I'm just saying that from a policy perspective of trying to help the poor, the minimum wage would be ineffective and have negative consequences like increased prices, increased unemployment, increased business failures, etc.
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