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It's pointless to create more jobs by lowering the minimum wage (or eliminating it) if no one could possibly live off of the wages of the jobs this created. So the answer is to only have jobs that could support someone without government having to feed them (minimum wage), this in my mind eliminates jobs that really shouldn't exist, and stops employers from having government subsidize their workers.

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It's pointless to create more jobs by lowering the minimum wage (or eliminating it) if no one could possibly live off of the wages of the jobs this created.

Not everybody who has a job has to live on the wages. When I worked temp jobs while I was in school, I didn't need the money to live on; ROTC was paying my tuition and my parents were paying my room & board. My wages were just extra spending money.

The big problem with raising the minimum wage across the board is that it doesn't differentiate between people who have to live on the wages they earn and people who don't, like me when I was in school. If there were an exception for people who were dependents on someone else's tax return, for example, I think it would make a big difference.

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