[TChris]

and all the robbers barrens of old would also be proud...how dare the little people, the disposable ones, dare think they are justified in using government to force owners to pay them a living wage? The gall....the unmitigated uppityness

ROFL!

OK, let's go with what you're proposing. I run a computer business. Business is sometimes difficult, since there are others competing for the same customers. If I charge my customers too much, they'll just get someone else to do the work who charges less.

By your reasoning, I should lobby the government to force my customers to pay me what I think they should. After all, the lifestyle I would like, and feel I rightfully deserve, requires a higher income. (This "Living Wage" B.S. is a political term that translates into "standard of living acceptable to me") Customers who refuse to pay the higher rates are like "robber barons", since they're too greedy to part with their beloved cash and give more to me.

Isn't that about right?

[reflecting]

almost right....you should not take on an employee until the wage you are able to pay him supplies his child with the life you would find suitable for your child.

[gogeo]

By your reasoning, I should lobby the government to force my customers to pay me what I think they should.

Oh no...you're just a businessman, and you're rich anyway.