Originally posted on 09/10/2014:

How much money do all these people making min wager get from the government? If you have a family and your only making min wager your probably getting some type of subsidy from the government so that is costing everyone else money. Why not make corporations pay for this by raising the min wage instead of tax payers. Also if you raised the min wager it would help the economy because poor people literally have to spend all their money to live so all poor peoples money goes right back into the system of buying stuff and creating jobs. By the way I'm from Newfoundland that's in Canada and maybe 6 or 7 years ago min wager here was like $7.00 and it got raised fairly quickly to $10 and guess what the world didn't implode everything was fine no big difference for normal people but I'm guessing it was a pretty big difference to the people who got the raise. By the way most people here supported it and it wasn't a big deal unlike you guys in the States who just keep drinking the Kool-Aid of the rich and so called job creators who have some how convinced average Americans that things like this that will make their lives better is unpatriotic or will kill jobs while they sit in their big fancy houses just counting their money and laughing at how stupid you are.