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That seems backwards to me.

[ColdOne]

Just horrible what the left is getting away with.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“All of these changes reduce the need for employees. Maybe the higher pay to the workers who have jobs will make up, by some calculus, for the unemployment visited on the others. Maybe not. Either way, there’s no escaping the tradeoff.”

It really is quite silly. Pay a handful of the ‘cream of the crop’ the $15/hour, lay off the rest, and let the $15 an hour remaining workers PAY THE WAY FOR THOSE THAT HAVE NO JOBS. And in reality, after taxes are confiscated, they’re right BACK to minimum wage, again!

Oh, wait...it works that way ALREADY for those of us that have jobs!

Aarrgghhhh!

[piytar]

“Their intentions are good.”

NO, THEY ARE NOT!!!

[railroader]

In 1971, in an attempt to tame inflation, Republican President Richard Nixon imposed controls on almost all prices. By 1974, he had lifted most of them. But those on gas remained. Under Democratic President Jimmy Carter, they led to widespread shortages and long lines at service stations -- and didn't keep prices from rising. But the controls lasted until his successor, Ronald Reagan, lifted them in 1981.

Not entirely true. Nixon imposed then lifted price controls, but not on domestic oil. Carter began a phaseout of those domestic price controls in April 1979, but in a slow phaseout. Unfortunately, he also imposed windfall profits on oil companies, negating the effects of the controls (and making the gas crisis worse).

[Theodore R.]

No matter how much we warn the American people, they can never figure things out.

[pluvmantelo]

Astonishing. Steve Chapman wrote something halfway sensible.