Keep Minimum Wage Realistic and Fair

  • by: Kylie Brewer
  • recipient: Governor of California- Jerry Brown
Raising the minimum wage is a controversy that many people fail to see the negative impacts with. Looking at the fact that individuals would be making more money is the only part of it that most see. In reality, the minimum wage increase has more downfalls than acknowledged.
With raising minimum wage, it takes away any incentive to work hard. Workers would be getting paid so much money for minimum skill and discipline, that it would reduce the level of service. Additionally, workers will see it as less time to earn just as much money so they do not need to work as much. The workers receiving government aid would especially attempt to work less due to the possibility that their subsidies would be taken away. To add on, realistically business owners will have to lay off some workers in order to pay the minimum wage. Labor is such a large part of finances, so that would be a bigger cutback. With the layoffs, each individual as a worker will also be making a contribution through taxes. Lastly, prices of goods and services will also rise. Through the minimum wage increase, inflation will occur and the value of the dollar will go down.
Through learning another side to the story, it is clear how this raise is not something that should be so desired because in the end, the downsides overpower the positives to the situation.
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