Reject $15 minimum wage in Oregon

  • by: Simon
  • recipient: 15 Now Action Group

Oregon has the highest paid minimum wage in the United States already, we do not need to run small and medium sized businesses to the ground. This change will affect the middle working class citizens because now all the small business owners will raise their prices on everything to keep running their business and pay the employees a higher wage.

Changing the minimum wage to $15 an hour might be nice for the 16 year old high school students making some extra spending money, but McDonald's cashier wasn't meant to support their entire family. People that can't get a good paying job because they do not have a good education can get jobs such as bartenders or waiters and waitresses. Those jobs pay well because of the minimum wage plus tips.

This will do more harm to society than help society because fast food workers will not have any motivations to get a higher education or better job. They get paid the same as a college graduate working as a medical assistant. The people planning to pursue a higher education might as well just work at Taco Bell and not waste 4 years of their life getting a degree to get paid the same. There are people that have worked really hard to make $35,000 a year and now anyone can drop out of high school and make $35,000 flipping burgers. That doesn't sound fair for the educated people, for the people that spent years earning work experience to get a $35,000 job.

So say No to 15 Now and say no to $15 minimum wage.

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