No argument from me. Being the greeter at Walmart isn’t exactly a skilled position nor is it hard to fill. That’s to say nothing of the fact that jobs like those aren’t careers nor should they be treated as such. And raising the minimum wage is just going to increase the costs of goods to the consumer. They’ll still be poor and still won’t be able to take care of a family. And that shouldn’t be the expectation working at Walmart. Walmart is showing you the blueprint of what the downstream impacts are.
I’d rather increase the EITC threshold.
What do we do? Cap profit margins on corporations? Force corporations to provide unskilled labor employer based healthcare? Again, on the latter, the costs will just get passed on to the consumer. And again, that’s negating the whole idea on what we’re trying to solve.
They’re trying to balance equality of outcome, and it’s not possible. The reality is, people have the choices they make to partially blame, or credit, their station in life. There are a ton of good paying jobs out there right now. In a lot of cases, people can’t pass a damn drug test to get them.
