Hey diamond.....you'll love hearing this then. Watching Glenn Beck this morning they are now going to try and pass it to where the goverment will be able to monitor the peoples' heating and electric usage and be able to control how much heat and ect.. we use. I'm sure this will get you going. It did with me.
Try and have a nice day!

I say follow the federal law and raise the minimum wage to $6.55 on July 24th, 2008 and $7.25 on July 24th, 2009. That way if is mandated, we will be covered. This is not likely to come about because it will be too late to put an extra buck in somebody's pocket to buy a vote.

Funny how liberals are all for anything going between consenting adults except for agreeing on how much they'll work for.

raising the min. wage will not put the small employer out of business. Wages have gone backwards. 14 years ago making $12.00/hour was good money. Today you are lucky if you can find that pay. Everything goes up except pay. The government has let all our jobs go over seas for cheep labor then let them ship it back here for us to buy. Well if they keep going who is going to be able to afford to buy the stuff. The government is slowly but surely taking away our rights. First it is telling our business how they have to run it (non-smoking, etc), the restraurants, they have to make smaller portions and list fat/calories because we are not smart enough to put our fork down. One day the americans will wake up and say hey what happened we have no rights the government even tells us what to eat, etc. The government is slowly taking away our rights and no one is paying attention, they just think yea make the business owner go smoke free. Last I knew smoking was legal. This is not about smoking either. It is about the government taking away our rights. Pay attention more rights will be taken away. Sorry if words are misspelled.

I'm not real big on raising the minimum wage myself for a lot of reasons (driving the small businessperson out of business, rewarding individuals for not improving their skill set, and on and on), but don't forget - even if you work full time at minimum wage you are subject to very little income tax. That 75 cents would get taxed a lot harder for someone who was making $15 an hour than someone who is making $6.50, especially if they have withholding exemptions for children. What the politicians are really trying to get out of this is more votes, not more dollars. They'll squeeze the dollars out of the rest of us. By the way, I don't get 12% raises, not even 12% over a handful of years.

This is like a Pandora's box, if the minimum wage is raised then we end up with a higher cost of living and taxes. Yet if we don't raise it then those who are on state aid won't get off of it because they cannot make a true living wage without having to work 3 job's. It's a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation.

Yeah, let's raise the minimum wage and help increase inflation. The labor unions want it because their wages (which in most cases are already well above the minimum) will also get a boost and, you guessed it, more inflation. Cut taxes, and more importantly, cut government spending.

i would just like to say that i hold a job that i started at min wage and worked my way above the min wage level i have been at this job for 14 years and have worked very hard to get to my position and my current pay rate a rate increase in the min wage is not the ansewer and it would effect everyone in the form of taxes and price increases across the board my check that i recieve now would not go up in all likely hood and there for my check would not go as far and that across the board will effect the economy

I would also like to point out that if you work a lot of overtime for a short period, you may be taxed at a higher rate because of your increased paycheck, but when your taxes are filed at the end of the year, your actual tax rate may be lower and you will see some of that overtime money in the form of a larger refund.

Lowering taxes does not help anyone in the long run if it contributes to deficit spending. Raising the minimum wage does not guarantee that those working above it will get a raise, but it is said that a rising tide raises all ships. Perhaps that principle will apply here.

I was all for this, until I read nemesis's opinion. Lowering the taxes is a way better idea, mainly because EVERYONE would be affected by it. I make more than minimum wage, yet would I get a 75 cent raise if the minimum wage goes up? Nope. But it would affect me if the taxes were lowered. Everyone could benefit.

Pass this into law and watch the people in government rub their hands with glee. Anytime the minimum wage is raised so do your income taxes. And just like that you give those "public officials" in government more of your hard earned money.
Instead of raising the minimum wage ask those "public officials" to lower the income taxes - that'll make for a great minimum wage increase.

yeah, nutty, I always hated that! I'd work overtime, but I'd see a small percentage of the actual overtime pay because taxes ate the majority of it up. You brought up a point I did not think of.

I think it is a good idea. I see the opponents points, but overall, I think it is for the betterment of many.