Instigator / Pro
28
1485
rating
91
debates
46.15%
won
Topic
#550

Minimum Wage

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
0
24
Better sources
14
16
Better legibility
7
8
Better conduct
7
5

After 8 votes and with 25 points ahead, the winner is...

RationalMadman
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
4
Time for argument
Three days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
53
1697
rating
556
debates
68.17%
won
Description

Topic

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase the federal minimum wage

Definitions

Minimum wage: the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their workers
Increase: become or make greater in size, amount, intensity, or degree.
Substantially: to a great or significant extent - in the context of this debate, to at least 10.50 an hour.

Rounds

1. Opening
2. Rebuttals
3. Rebuttals
4. Closing

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@David

What are trade unions?

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@RationalMadman

Game on. Ironically I absolutely agree with trade unions being brought back in full.

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@David

My counterplan will have trade unions being brought back in full, as its main pillar. Fair game is fair, good luck.

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@RationalMadman

Yep that's basically what this debate is. Con can successfully negate the resolution by showing that the minimum wages should stay the same. The negative does not have to prove there should be no minimum wage. This isn't an all or nothing debate.

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@David

If you make it explicit in the R1 that this is not Pro/Con min-wage but pro/con that it needs to be substantially increased, I'll accept and run a K in the sense of the counter-plan having other ways of easing expense on the poor, that encourage them to work for it and make use of it.