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To: risk
Picking vegetables doesn't pay enough to live decently, now does it?

Go ahead and set the minimum wage at $25, that will cure all our ills and stick it to those evil farmers and business owners.

5 posted on 12/21/2004 1:00:39 AM PST by Dane (Trial lawyers are the tapeworms to wealth creating society)
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To: Dane

Why not let the market decide? The American market, instead of illegal labor without reasonable income and workplace standards imported from the third world? What we have now is an artificially subsidized labor supply. Of course you have cheap lettuce. Cheap lettuce is very important.


6 posted on 12/21/2004 1:04:20 AM PST by risk
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