States Rights And Securing The Right To The Pursuit Of Happiness

I happen to me a supporter of an increase in minimum wage. It does cause inflation in the goods and services provided by minimum wage workers but it also gives the workers increased money to purchase more goods. This offsets increase of costs due to normal inflation so that instead of purchasing less minimum wage workers can purchase the same amount they did before.

I am not in favor of a federal minimum wage as it is not a power given to the federal government. Each state has the power to raise minimum wage and has the duty to ensure the natural right of pursuit of happiness of its citizens. They may use other solutions than raising minimum wage . That tactics to deal with the situation are up to the legislature to debate and decide and it is up to the citizens of that state to elect those representatives that they fill have the best plans.

In California the legislation has chosen to lift the minimum wage from $6.75 to $8.00 an hour. California has a flourishing economy. The legislation made a deal with the governor that not veto the legislation if they did not include an automatic raise equal to inflation. He gave in his demands for a dollar raise instead of the dollar and a quarter raise he that was made law. That is how the legislation process works.

Illegal immigrants are a threat to the minimum wage as they will work under it and since the law is already being broken by employing illegals the employer has no problem with paying them under the table. Except for a few the Democratic party at the federal level supports illegal immigration.

My source of information on the minimum wage being raised in California.