$7.25 an hour - wtf? mate, here we get on average around $27 - $30 per hour paid every week.

The more the minimum wage goes up, the less jobs there are. This is simple economics. Most people work in small businesses. Small business owners often have small profit margins as well. Increasing their expenses makes them have to cut back. The most expensive part of a small business is employees. Higher minimum wages requires cutbacks...therefore, less jobs.

Yes to 10 dollars then wait 2 yrs to see results and re assess things from there.

The federal government has no business mandating pay. That is between service provider and service beneficiary.

If an employer only wants to pay me $7.25 an hour, I have the right to seek employment with them at their price, or seek employment elsewhere. If the employer finds no one is applying for their jobs at $7.25 an hour, they have choices to make . . . Go out of business, or increase the wages so people will want to work for them. Most everyone (including liberals) have an understanding of the laws of supply and demand . . . It's just they see government as the way around it.

Minimum wage in Alberta just got raised to $15 hour and it is causing layoffs and businesses to close down because they cannot afford to keep operating

I was a single mother of three young boys when I went to school to better my life. It was the hardest thing I have ever done, but I earn a good income now. Raising the minimum wage for people that have put in no effort to better themselves is an insult to all my hard work.

HELL NO! It should be eliminated. It is an agreement between two parties. Pricing people out of the market is not good for anyone. Changing our tax system to the "Fair Tax" would help much better than any amount of Federal Intervention.

Implement Universal Basic Income TOGETHER WITH Universal Flat Tax. Equitable to the full spectrum of society (will be opposed by Marxists, corporatsts and plutocrats).
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Subsidizing inflation just accelerates the currency collapse .

Every time business gets hit with higher labor costs they hire less workers

$7.25 an hour is greater than the zero amount an unemployed worker gets

Hell no

There should be no such thing as a federal minimum wage. The government needs to get out of the way completely

These are supposed to be part time entry level jobs for kids just getting into the workforce, or for extra money on the side. These were never meant to be family supporting jobs.

If the minimum wage gets changed it should be to $0.00/hr