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House Conservatives Circulate Letter on Minimum Wage
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Posted on 07/28/2006 7:10:44 AM PDT by Solow591
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To: Hendrix
Then you think that social and crunchy cons have no place here?
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:17:36 AM PDT
by
Hydroshock
( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
To: Petronski
This is bad policy but good politics for the GOP for the 2006 election cycle.
Contrary to some assertions, this will take a major issue away from the RATS and their media handmaidens.
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:18:01 AM PDT
by
mwl1
To: Solow591
A principal reason for this is an infusion of Money into Social Security. Those earning MINIMUM WAGE pay little or NO INCOME TAX.
However, they pay Social Security on every dollar they earn!
INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX PAYERS:
Top 5% pay 55% of the total.
Bottom 50% pay <4% of the total.
To: durasell
"There is the hope/assumption that a rising minimum wage will lift all salaries close to it. Couple the minimum wage with gas company profits and you have five good paragraphs of a stump speech. The republicans need to point to one concrete thing that they've done that voters feel every day."
Well why we are at it, why don't we just propose adopting all the democrat economic points, including free universal health care. It is a very bad idea to adopt bad policy just to try to win elections. The best way to win elections is the Reagan way, which is to espouse conservative principals and explain why they are superior to the big government liberal policies.
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:18:36 AM PDT
by
Hendrix
To: Solow591
In my opinion, agreeing or disagreeing with a minimum wage increase is not the point. In view of the exhorbitant salaries claimed by all of Congress, how can they have the nerve to tell Working People what they should or should not be paid. If they are really so concerned about the everyday Janice & Joe, they should clean up their own house before attempting to straighten up ours...
To: durasell
Just hammer away at it.The solution is to stand on principle, not surrender points because they hammer them.
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:19:58 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Living His life abundantly.)
To: Petronski
I know I went to one recently. It went well, not like my first one where the entire church heard the Priest from inside the confessional yell, "YOU DID WHAT!!!!!!" after I started. But hey what are a few hundred Hail Mary's and Our Fathers anyway. ;)
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:19:58 AM PDT
by
Hydroshock
( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
To: Hydroshock
minimum wage increase = increased costs of labor = higher product cost.
results Higher product cost = spending the magical wage increase on more expensive product = 0 gain
Higher products cost = more room for foreign products to take market share = massive US job loss.
Higher labors costs = dropping the lower echelon of employees and replacing with outsourcing/mechanizing/computerizing = no job = welfare
There is nothing to be gained, only lost
Economic newtons third law.
To: Andrewksu
Havoc isn't what you'd call a big thinker.
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:21:00 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Living His life abundantly.)
To: Hendrix
The first Reagan victory was a quarter century ago. The world has changed.
I'm not advocating the adoption of dem principles. I'm advocating giving the voters something concrete in terms of policy.
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:21:05 AM PDT
by
durasell
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To: leprechaun9
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:21:12 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: Petronski
The solution is to stand on principle...
We are talking about politics, right?
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:22:24 AM PDT
by
durasell
(!)
To: Hydroshock
yes, balance shifts to china/india/mexico
too bad for us though
To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
That is the point. Government should not be in the business of telling anyone what they should or should not be getting paid in the private sector. That is not the function of government. Congress is working for the government, and thus their salary should be set by the government. See the distinction?
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:22:43 AM PDT
by
Hendrix
To: durasell
We are talking about politics, right?Power is either a means to achieve certain principled changes, or it is power for power's sake.
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:23:34 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Living His life abundantly.)
To: mwl1
Contrary to some assertions, this will take a major issue away from the RATS and their media handmaidens. More "defeat the Dems by becoming Dems" Bravo Sierra.
You people are going to get us all killed.
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:23:44 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.- Aeschylus)
To: Hydroshock
Do you think really for one minute that congress can keep not raising the minimum wage, and that when they do it will be a big one.Conservative economic policies have been successfully sold to the electorate in the past; it would help if the Republicans would at least try here. Nothing was more pathetic than Bush's response to the minimum wage question in the 2004 debate, in which, instead of publicly making the case that the minimum wage hurt the poor and the economy as a whole, he advocated an increase--only one smaller than Kerry's proposal.
To: durasell
Yes, you are advocating democrat principals. Reagan is the blueprint, and we deviate from that blueprint, we deserve to lose because we are no different than democrats. If I want democrat principals such as minimum wage, I will just vote for the real deal, which is democrats. What you say makes no sense.
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:24:56 AM PDT
by
Hendrix
To: Hydroshock
"social and crunchy cons" have a place here. Idiot conservatives, OTOH...
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:27:20 AM PDT
by
Seamoth
(Kool-aid is the most addictive and destructive drug of them all.)
To: Petronski
"People who enjoy eating sausage and obeying the law should not watch either being made" - Otto von Bismarck
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posted on
07/28/2006 9:28:00 AM PDT
by
durasell
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