Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Unreasonably high minimum wage ..... ?

WTF??????? uncle same take 1/3 of minimum wage???????????????????????

I've yet to pay 1/3 of my gross income in federal income taxes, and my income for the past several years has fallen somewhere between 5 and 10% of top wage earners. When I was in the top 25% I was paying less than 10% of gross.

Heck, my teenage kids can make $20/hr cash tutoring other students or teaching violin lessons. As I tell them, why work for minimum wage when you have skills others don't.

I guess it's good that there are so many people that say you can't make it, or aren't willing to try, as it makes for much less competition for those that have figured out it really isn't that hard.

Exactly and you're absolutely correct !

You probably nailed it. That reminds me of one of my favorite demotivational posters.

Dysfunction

Better them than our taxes. Ya bitch about your tax burden and blame government...take that blame all the way to the top fat cats that make the system work that way for them at the taxpayer expense.

You've got it nailed man !

In one breath you rant about the low quality workers forced on you, and in the next you rant on how they deserve forced wages.

I suppose that looks like a contradiction but damn, 7.25 an hour ! Really ? I wouldn't [bleep] your loose, ugly daughters for that !

I'd kill you for free, but that would be redundant. A low-life government employee that has to suck off his masters already has no life.

I think everyone should work a minimum wage job ... at least once. I did it. I'm sure a lot of people did it even if only for a short period in high school or college.

Know what I learned? That having a minimum wage job sucked and I needed to figure out something else pretty quick. I guess we can throw in a government job as well. Did that for a short period of time and just couldn't set there and watch money after money get flushed down the toilet with no return on it at all.

Yep.

Take a look at this guy's posts and it becomes obvious that he can't play well with others.

By what authority would you have the gov't do this?

Sheesh. Ya'll really seem to have it stuck in your heads that when someone can't earn a "living wage" (whatever that is) that it is someone else's fault.

THAT is the core problem in our whole society. If everyone would worry more about taking care of their own business everyone would be a lot better off.

You got a problem with people who mooch and leech? That is between you and them; don't let your envy for someone else's success let you become like the leeches & mooches who point fingers but can't bear to look in mirrors.

Of course there is a solution to all of this. Cut gov't back to its Constitutional powers and eliminate individual and corporate welfare, housing subsidies and all price fixing.

I for one would love to see us do all of the above both internationally and domestically and watch our debt woes disappear.

You mean you were forced to earn less than a living wage and you're not eternally blaming The Man for your scars?

You need to introduce a few people here and a whole lotta people out there to your therapist!

WOW!

I never imagined how bad a schit storm this thread/subject would turn out to be.

Diverse and diametrically opposed opinions amongst reasonable people on yet another issue ....




Not good.

Who ya calling reasonable!

There's no denying that.

But lawyers have arranged things such in our society that they're necessary for just about everything, which is Bristoe's point, i.e., in a libertarian society, lawyers would find far less work as there would be far less red tape one would be required to navigate through on a daily basis.

I haven't heard Bristoe say that he supports the minimum wage.

Then rail against the welfare state, and support Ron Paul.

+1

"Of course there is a solution to all of this. Cut gov't back to its Constitutional powers..."

The nail has been struck squarely upon its head.