[bb1]

Some day an intelligent economist like you should figure that we need to call the lefts bluff and say we will double the minimum wage AS LONG AS no other wages tied to it through union contracts go up a like percentage .
----the increase in the minimum wage does little harm compared to the same percent of increase being applied to a 60 dollar an hour auto worker.
the little guy after inflation and moving into a higher tax bracket probably has less disposable income.
Bilbray has learned that we shouldn't assume every issue is ours or their's -- single issue advocates would like it to stay that way forever.
maybe your certainty of thought inhibits an ability to know that most valuable of things--what you don't know

[fieldmarshaldj]

I like pizzas that cost $100, how about you ?

It's very easy for big-hearted politicians and those without a clue about basic economics (that being nearly all liberals and all Democrats) to wax poetic about raising the minimum wage and how it will "help" those at the bottom of the economic ladder, when all it serves to do is to drive up the costs of goods and services and puts people and businesses out of work. Let's let the government stay out of the business of screwing with the minimum wage. And just one final point, remember that minimum wage is just that... minimum... a starting point... not the maximum.

[Torie]

You don't think DOUBLING the minimum wage in one swoop will have a substantial deleterious impact on employment? What is your empirical and theoretical economic evidence for that? Even the Dems don't advocate that.