(10-26-2018, 04:47 AM)hazard Wrote: What you do in that case ECS, is declare that the minimum wage will be calculated per county, or per city with more than 10 000 inhabitants, and that the minimum wage will be equal to the minimum living costs of a family of four with a single earner working a fulltime job of maximum 40 hours a week on non-holiday weekdays.
In case companies want to have a smaller fulltime job than 40 hours a week they are entirely free to do so, but they are still paying as a fulltime job.
Cost of living will be regularly calculated by a non-partisan independent organisation like the Congressional Budget Office. The minimum wage will change as the cost of living does.
Yeah, sure, and the first thing that'll happen is you'll get people complaining about "Well it isn't fair that New Yorkers get fifteen dollars an hour while we Omaha people only get ten! We should get fifteen too!" And some politician hungry for Omaha votes will start pushing for it, and you'll get the same kind of emotionally-charged scaremongering that's driving the current minimum-wage campaigns, and the whole scheme will last about six months before someone upends it.
That, and you'll see even more immigration into the big cities, which puts even more pressure on jobs and prices there, which drives prices higher and wages lower....