StephieSalmons

All I'm saying is that minimum wage will have increased 43.5% since 2003 in 2010. It will have surpassed inflation by 33.85%. Every year minimum wage increases at approximately 8% but wages of other earners, the white collar and such do not receive this. Why do we reward people for being uneducated and punish those who actually try and do something with their lives?

By axed you mean no minimum wage? No. But there is no need for minimum wage to keep rising the way it is. 6.85 was a good wage for people to start out at and good employers generally gave raises based on performance then. Now minimum wage is approaching the part/time salary cap at an employer I recently worked for. Its just sad that because people dont try and get job's outside of the walmarts and the mc donalds of the world consumers will have to pay $7 for a big mac and higher prices across the board at so called discount chains. I can only imagine how hard it is for people who run mom and pop shops now - if they werent out of business then, they are going to be soon.

When I originally started working I was making $6.85/hr and I was happy with it. I understood minimum wage was intended for students and not for someone who actually wanted to make a living. On 6.85 I worked and managed to pay for rent, hydro, cable, internet, car insurance, groceries, etc all without having to goto the food bank. $10/hr used to seem like a lot now, but since the raise of minimum wage it seems insignificant. Raising minimum wage is the biggest mistake we could ever do in ontario. We fail to see that with each hike in wage comes a hike in our grocery bills, our rent, etc while everyone else's salary remains the same. Hiking minimum wage also takes away the one thing we need - motivation. Motivation to actually work hard to get an education to get a better job. Why even try to educate yourself when college graduates make little more than you? In regards to the black market, I can see why it exists. We get taxed ridiculously high and our government, in its glorious socialistic nature, wants to make everyone on the same level. Low income earners need to shut up and stop whining because guess what? We pay an arm and a leg to fund social services that give them food, money, shelter... things I am not entitled to because my husband makes too much money but he still gets taxed at around 40% even though I am a dependent (income splitting for everyone please). We pay out way too much, our government gives out way too much and now no one wants to actually work. So a black market would be great... I would enjoy not paying 40% tax on income.