WEll Australia must just be lucky then. Healthcare, how many years in a row of sustained economic growth??, low unemployment and all done with a minimum wage, now fancy that!!
Oh my .. .the guy has over 10,000 posts. I'll happily take your word for it! Happy Christmas to you too /Smurf PS: Are you sure you're not just going by the rhyming surf/smurf?
No it doesn't. But that's really the whole point, isn't it? You have to see everything as part of the whole, then you can really understand what the thought process is and where people are really "coming from". Nice of you to notice. JJ
Having a higher minimum wage could just mean higher cost of living. So if we raise the minimum wage to $10, then it'll just raise gas prices to $5 per gallon (hehe, what's the pikers in good ole England paying now?), and raise other product costs. Passing the cost to the consumers. In the end, England is no better than any other country. Sure, minimum wage can be higher, but also expect the cost of living to rise with it. I think you should look at quality of life instead of minimum wage, but then you wouldn't have much of a case, now would you? Run along.
Exactly. Let the MARKET set the minimum wage. I would take a gander that it is much lower in this job market than most people would realize. Laws and regulation mess with the natural free market. In the long run, this is not good.