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S.6 Raise Minimum Wage to Living Wage; RAISE IT
Topic Started: Mar 23 2015, 01:18 AM (2,214 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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Okay, wildeboden, completly missing my point. If you read it correctly I should sue everyone! But that is just rediculous and wouldnt help in anyway. Courts are the worst way to settle a issue (and fighting neither).
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Mar 23 2015, 04:53 PM
How would it lead to shortages?
Price controls always lead to shortages. If you say to businesses that they cannot sell something for more than $10 and it costs $11 dollars to make that something, then they're not going to be doing any selling.

It happened with the price and wage controls on oil, on rent controlled apartments in New York, on grain during the French Revolution, etc.
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Mar 23 2015, 04:53 PM
How would it lead to shortages?
Price controls always lead to shortages. If you say to businesses that they cannot sell something for more than $10 and it costs $11 dollars to make that something, then they're not going to be doing any selling.

It happened with the price and wage controls on oil, on rent controlled apartments in New York, on grain during the French Revolution, etc.
Same with me, just a fierce discussion :P
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Poverty forced people to work that way. The blame is on their government for being so greedy as to only see to it that they live in luxury. The people are left in the dirt. In Vietnam, you can walk down one of the streets and everyone is riding bicycles and walking while you see a Rolls Royce driving down the street.
The gap between the wealthy and the poor has been taken to far. On the foundations of the Old Western Society we have decided to take advantage of the world we have left behind. Cheap labor is an example of this. Just governments SHOULD raise the minimum wage, because the problem can only be ended when we invite the world to join the table of the developed world.
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Mar 23 2015, 04:58 PM
Okay, wildeboden, completly missing my point. If you read it correctly I should sue everyone! But that is just rediculous and wouldnt help in anyway. Courts are the worst way to settle a issue (and fighting neither).
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Poverty forced people to work that way. The blame is on their government for being so greedy as to only see to it that they live in luxury. The people are left in the dirt. In Vietnam, you can walk down one of the streets and everyone is riding bicycles and walking while you see a Rolls Royce driving down the street.
The gap between the wealthy and the poor has been taken to far. On the foundations of the Old Western Society we have decided to take advantage of the world we have left behind. Cheap labor is an example of this. Just governments SHOULD raise the minimum wage, because the problem can only be ended when we invite the world to join the table of the developed world.
The reason people work that way is because they do not have the skills necessary to justify a higher wage, not because someone is being irrationally greedy. It is the case in a lot of countries that the government is responsible, whether through government mishandling of the education system or because of civil wars that destroy the economy.
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The government is responsible, because it creates a system that funnels all the wealth to them.
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Mar 23 2015, 05:10 PM
The government is responsible, because it creates a system that funnels all the wealth to them.
In certain cases that's true, especially when you have governments that engage in corruption and granting special deals to favored sectors and corporations.
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