VI- Commentary

I agree with T the author of  "Sweet tea and Politics" blog and their article http://sweetteaandpolitics.blogspot.com about Texas minimum wage. The minimum wage in Texas has been the same since I started having to work full time and I have witnessed the consequences not only on the employee side but on the managers and employers side as well. The state not choosing to raise the minimum wage affects employers too, making it more difficult to attract qualified and worthwhile employees for positions where the minimum wage is the normal starting point.  Not only is it hard to attract qualified and worthwhile employers it is even harder to keep them with minimum wage. Often times employers find they hire someone who will work for a few weeks up to a couple of months and then never show up again. It’s a pattern of jumping from one minimum wage job to another and since they do not offer competitive pay employees look for other perks to keep them around like easy work, phone and break times, free stuff, and will often drop on a current employer without notice if another minimum wage job is available. There are pros to raising the minimum wage, not only attracting more qualified and all around better employees for employers but also an economic stimulus. Capitalism thrives off the cycle of money earned and money spent, if Texas was to increase the minimum wage that would give citizens of Texas more money to spend, money earned is money spent which will continue the growth of capitalism.  Once more, if we consider the group of individuals who are under the poverty line and enrolled in government programs to help them survive, raising the minimum wage would not only benefit the people surviving in poverty but in turn help the government programs spend less. If people have more money coming in from their employer to support themselves and their families they may become less depend on the government.