Citing Wash. Post op-ed, Fox News report asks in on-screen text: "Lowering the Minimum Wage: Is It Better for Workers?"

These people are talking crazy talk.
The only way lowering minimum wage would be better, is if you lowered all of the costs of living.

Why is lowering the minimum wage a good thing and lowering the pay/bonus of the Wall Street banker is the worst idea in the world?

I really don't need an answer, I have a pretty good idea why things are like this.

Corporate propaganda at its best...

Of course, in reality it should not be a question but a statement

"Doubling the minimum wage: it WILL be better for workers!"

My Econ prof was all for doing away with the minimum wage. He was a big believer in Supply-Side Economics, Free Markets, and Reaganism. (Poor guy didn't know he was such a loser.) This is something that they like to spout. If we got rid of the minimum wage, I am quite sure that wages for teens would go down, and so would the wages of the unskilled workers. And then the Foxtarts would be trying to convince us how much better off we are with Free Markets and higher corporate profits! Stinkers.

their argtumant goes like this:
I have a sign in my backyard that says "Elephants and Bears KEEP OUT."
I have not seen any elephants or bears in my yard, ergo, my sign is successful.

Heres another good one:
Left uses "social justice" arguments and the right uses "macro-economic" terms . . . WHAT BS THIS IS!!!!! Especially when Glenn Blecch has said the social justice is lefty-code-talk for sicalism, etc . . .

I am having difficulty understanding what these fools are saying because that corporate schlong is all up in their mouth!!

I knew this was going to be an intelligent, objective discussion, as soon the bubble headed blonde couldn't read and say "seven dollars and twenty five cents an hour".

So, if 3% are currently making minimum wage, whatever the dollar amount per hour is, then rolling back the minimum wage hike will affect nobody but those who are already living at or below poverty level, will it? If 97% of employees are already paid more than minimum wage, then what is the fuss by the Republican about 'artificially' inflating the cost of new hires?

The minimum wage works out to $14,500 a year. If only 20% is taken for state and federal taxes, that's less than $1000 a month to live on. Food, rent, utilities, car payment, clothing and other expendables. Oh yeah. That's the high life, right there.

Perhaps those at FOX Propaganda should read more than one book, before they leap to any economic conclusions. Oh, I know. The one book they read happened to coincide with what they wanted to believe, so why search further? For the rest of us, though...

Is that vomit i taste in the back of my throat? Are they kidding me? People would riot in the streets if they lowered minimum wage and no one would blame them. The creation of minimum wages and union led to the creation of a middle class. If we want to eradicate the middle class from the country, yea lets lower the minimum wage. Our current min wage is ridiculously laughable. We should raise it if anything.

Republicans would also suggest that eating cardboard for supper would be less costly for lower income people.

I want to meet the morons that actually votes that lowering the min wage was a good thing so I can kick them in the nuts. Seriously. How dumb are these people?

I am 100% behind eliminating the minimum wage. but, let's replace it with a living wage. What is that old Republican saying, "A rising tide lifts all boats"?

If you think making welfare more desirable than a job is better for workers, then the answer would be 'yes'.

That's how much contempt Fox News has for its viewers. Trying to sell them getting paid less is better for them while taxing the richest is anti-American.

Only thing more contemptible is believing their BS.

Fox News is a crime.

Twisted logic. Why not bring back slavery? That will reduce unemployment too.

And unemployed Tea Baggers scream YEAH as they sit in front their tv's as bills pile up on their kitchen counters. Waiting for Sarah Palin to post her insight on the subject on her Face Book page

Fox News report asks in on-screen text: "Lowering the Minimum Wage: Is It Better for Workers?"

Next question from Fox: "Slitting their wrists: Is it better for those who are depressed?"

Citing Wash. Post op-ed, Fox News report asks in on-screen text: "Lowering the Minimum Wage: Is It Better for Workers?"

The war on the poor never will go away with these retards will it? Well lets see.... First, eliminate the minimum wage for the poor, eliminate welfare help for the poor, elderly, and unemployment. Second, eliminate the 40hr work wk and have people slave working like the late 18th century to early 20th century. Third, eliminate the age limit to work as well, so you can have kids as soon as they could walk and talk working only to make a small clubhouse few rich!

A Genuine Monarchy!

*Facepalm*

Best part is when she makes a note of how this guy "does not fall into that category..." when referring to the minimum wage earners. It's like an immediate alienation of people who earn lower wages and props them up as elitists.

Second, he notes that the Teen Unemployment Rate is at its highest since WW2, and says that has something to do with the minimum wage? It's lower because there are no more jobs that allow younger people to work, and a larger portion of the teens today are lazy.

Depends ...

It's better for business owners and the unemployed (since it would promote hiring at low costs).

It's worse for the currently employed.

I would like to see these two reporters try to live on 7.25 an hour.

This is one of the reasons for the Civil War. The Democrats of the 1800's are the Republicans of the day. The phony English Aristocrats of the South did not want to give up their slaves because they would have had to pay the hired help the outrageous wage of fifty cents to $1.00 a day. That would have cut too deeply into their profits. The want to enslave the working poor and lower middle class like they did the blacks.

Aren't most people who receive minimum wage first time employees, like high school kids?

I remember I got called an idiot here because I brought up the fact that the TX GOP was officially against the minimum wage. I was told that it actually hurts workers but when I asked for an explaination I couldn't get it. Can anyosy explain to me how eliminating minimum wage laws help lower-skilled workers? I mean a real explaination beyond GOP talking points.