Minimum wage is the starting job/inflation rises along with this wage and should not be allowed to rise.

A minimum wage, especially one adjusted for inflation, can have unintended consequences for small businesses and job growth. When it increases annually with inflation, it may leave employers with higher labor costs, causing smaller business to struggle to stay alive. This can lead to cutting jobs and reducing hours to offset the increased costs, which harms workers job security.

The issue of raising the minimum wage lies in the concept of the circular flow. Yes, we can increase the minimum wage, however, this would be detrimental to small businesses and allow large corporations to take a larger piece of the industry. Large corporations such as Target are for raising the minimum wage, not because they are a loving and caring retail giant, but because it allows them to compete better against their competition, and push other businesses that can't afford to pay their employees raised minimum wage out of the industry. When these corporations need to lay off employee…  Read mores because they're unable to pay them a greater amount, this would lead to lesser productivity, which leads to fewer services and goods being offered, and therefore a shrinking of consumerism, which could slow down the economy. Additionally, corporations that pay their workers more and want to continue making the same profits will begin to sell their products for a higher price to balance this out. For example, if Coffee Store A needs to pay their employees $20 instead of $16 dollars, a $4 coffee could become $7. The employees of Coffee Store A will still be disadvantaged in buying their coffee since the price of the product went up with their wages. Lastly, the minimum wage is not meant to be a survivable wage. Minimum wage is paid in jobs that are considered entry-level, and the purpose of entry-level jobs is to push individuals who are new to the work force upward.

Minimum wage is supposed to be the lowest bar on an individuals climb to self-reliance, if a company is refusing to pay a living wage for a full time job no one should work there and through not having labor that company should go out of business based on the principles of the free market.

Minimum wage jobs are meant to be a stepping stone into a career. They are not meant to support a family as other jobs are, they are designed to gain work experience, social experience, and to help young adults figure out what they want to do for a career, as well as providing money to support them however they need. Adjusting minimum wage every year due to inflation would cause many different prices to go up, as well as run businesses into the ground. If minimum wage continues to rise, while more people would get jobs, the companies they are working for would slowly tank because of the wages they are paying their workers.

I do not believe that the minimum wage should be adjusted every year. I believe this because an increase in minimum wage can directly correspond to rising inflation levels.

By increasing minimum wage companies are just going to raise prices of items in order to counter the extra wage pay. You pay more to get payed more.

The minimum wage raises the amount of inflation in the country, counteracting everything it was originally trying to do in the first place.

Minimum wage doesn’t matter if they higher the price on how much people pay you because if they do then they also have to higher the price of all things