Comments on: $15 Minimum Wage In Florida?

By: virginia

virginia — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 04:57:44 +0000

i make 8 .05 a hour i think the wages should go up to 15 a hour…because my electric bill is more then my pay check…..i only bring home 220 a week and my electric bill was 405 during summer months…..it hard to survive on 8 05 a hour

By: Andrew Seth

Andrew Seth — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:35:29 +0000

If everybody gets a skill and get an education and that is great.. then you would not have people to pick up the garbage… everybody cannot be a doctor everybody cannot be a lawyer but everybody can take home a proper salary… $15 an hour in the state of Florida is still small… that should be ASAP

By: Xavier

Xavier — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:33:06 +0000

I hope $15/hr goes through; independent contractors will be able to do the job at a commensurate rate of $12/hr. No one will get hired because companies smart enough to sub out EVERYTHING will not hire employees any more. No income tax preparation. No monthly employment tax. No need to be a corporation at all; everything will become small LLC. This means MORE tax breaks. Lower overhead, lower direct labor = more profit = better product.

And another benefit, no jobs to the entitled means it will drive our social services to the breaking point, and we can start over.

There shouldn’t be a minimum wage at all. Make what you’re worth. If everyone were an independent contractor, then we would get the best possible product at the best possible price. Of course the big hurdle to get over with this model is teaching Floridians what it means to show up for work on time [everyday], do your job and don’t steal or lie.

By: Cinny

Cinny — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:31:58 +0000

When you have to work for a company that makes all the execs rich and you are working for very low wages it is a sad country these execs only care about themselves not the people who work soo hard to enable them to take their big paychecks at 64 it’s really hard to get a different job nobody cares about us the greed of execs is a shame they definitely need to raise minimum wage try to live on 220. A week see how you feel

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 01:54:59 +0000

I agree with BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR and PATROT.

I have seen the price increases resulting from a minimum wage increase, back in the late 1990s. The problem is that there are too many uneducated people in the work force, and simply too many people for the job market. We have an eighteen trillion dollar deficit and more people coming to America’s job market day.

It makes as much sense forcing a $15.00 minimum wage, as it would putting them all on welfare, and having the Federal Reserve print up the money to pay them.

By: Becareful what you ask for

Becareful what you ask for — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:29:31 +0000

Be careful what you ask for……. The problem with increasing minimum wage is this. 1) you will do away with the middle class. How you ask. Yes jobs like Walmart and Wendy’s will increase their pay but the jobs tha are above the minimum wage will not increase their pay. In Order to pay minimum wage your $6 value meal will now be $10, gallon of milk is now $7 or $8 dollars. So do you really get a raise an excuse for the big businesses to raise prices. 2) if these businesses don’t raise prices you will see self serve registers not just in Walmart but fast food and gas stations already starting in California. More robots and computers less jobs more people on welfare. For those who think more robots will create more jobs, I come from the automotive industry. 7 robots replaced the jobs of 200 people with 1 mantinance person responsible for seven computers. Be Careful What You Ask For

By: VoR

VoR — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 02:50:01 +0000

It’s pathetic that minimum wage opponents believe that $15/hr is too high. I made $12.50/hr 15 years ago without a HS diploma answering phones along with 150 other teenage knuckleheads. Prices will not go up significantly (this is a scare tactic don’t buy it), a few businesses that pay slave wages who were on the brink will have to close their doors sooner than later, robots have been automating for decades and more robots means more jobs to create and repair robots, this is called progress, and a way to get people off of welfare, and finally the tax bracket argument (really? lol!).

By: ThinkHarder

ThinkHarder — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 01:03:53 +0000

For as long as these Firefighters/EMS spend YEARS of their life training to protect us for LESS than $15 I will not support someone who complains about their wage that have a pay the bills job and not a career.

Plenty of resources out their that can babysit someone along the way of budgeting and saving money, I suggest that before a legislative plea for more money in their wallet.

You want an improvement of salary, you make an improvement in your education.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:11:57 +0000

The minimum wage was put in place to combat the rising price of goods caused by the rising costs of manufactured goods in America brought on my union wage increases. Ever since unions demanded higher wages without a valid economic reason it caused the price of goods to rise. Early on unions were involved in every sector of American manufacturing. Steel, Lumber, Iron, Coal, transportation, etc. Everything we made in America was affected by union wage increases. This affected the purchasing power of all Americans, particularly those who were not getting these wage increases. It took a while for regular American wages to catch up. As soon as they started to do so the unions wanted higher wages again. Pretty soon the union wage pressures were increasing faster than the common worker, and so they passed the minimum wage.
Now that we have government unions and the cost of regulation continues to grow, they want to pass a huge minimum wage. This is all bad policy and will not solve the problem. Higher minimum wages means higher prices, higher tax revenue, and commensurately higher government wage rates.
This is all a false driver of growth in America and should not be encouraged.

By: old man

old man — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:10:58 +0000

raising the minimum wage is a great idea if you work but think about the number of people in fl that are retired living on fixed income if you increase wages then retail prices go up example fuel prices go up transporation cost go up retail price goes up wages are a cost factor to be figured in the final cost of an item so what about the people on fixed income S S raises are based on inflation not on retail price of items .to charlie planning for retirement is a great thing i did that i had over a quarter of a million and lost it when the stock market crashed now i have to pay for everything with S S and it is not easy now consider the fact that we have so many millionares in our state gov. they do not have any idea what it is like for the common people