[CowboyJay]

"But government shouldn't simply decree that companies must pay levels of minimum wage. That's socialistic and anti-Capitalistic. No business can last long if the DEMs keep foisting andincreasing wage bs and all the other machinations of capitalist and liberty destruction they love so much. I'm not saying $1 is fair, but at this point I'll take it. It is better than workking for free."

If a business cannot survive without subsistence-wage labor subsidized by the taxpayer, then it wins the economic Darwin Award, and needs to go the way of the Dodo. This country does not need to import poverty,

[Killborn]

There's nothing capitalistic or free about mandatory minimum wage. IT hurts busineeses and brings government into a lassiez faire economy.