Sunday, December 3, 2017

Minimum Wage

The $12,000 Standard Deduction gives the “working poor” the right to pay no taxes on their minimum wage earnings. But we have too many adults making the minimum wage.

 

This wage was the common wage for students from the 1950s to the 1980s. We had high school students working part-time in retail and fast food. We also had illegal aliens working for minimum wage.

 

From 1989 to present we have seen factory jobs disappear and the workforce participation rate for working-age US citizens drop to produce 100 million unemployed. We saw the number of immigrants soar to 60 million.

 

The 150,000 jobs created each month after 1989 were mostly minimum wage jobs and they went to immigrants, who were subsidized with US government welfare. That left our new grads and laid off factory workers with no jobs. They all took the minimum wage jobs from the students.

 

It’s now time to reverse this trend by bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US and allowing the working-age US citizens to take manufacturing jobs and allow students to fill the retail, grocery store, restaurant and fast-food jobs to allow them to learn to work. Students need to earn their own spending money and their part-time jobs offer a profitable break from studies.

 


Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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