Posted on 08/17/2006 9:14:56 AM PDT by Condor 63
MONTGOMERY -- Sounding a populist tone she attributes to her rural, meager upbringing, Alabama Democratic gubernatorial nominee Lucy Baxley on Wednesday unveiled a nine-point agenda topped by promises to roll back annual property reappraisals and raise the minimum wage to $6.15 per hour.
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That's interesting, but relative only to the per capita residency density, doncha know.
Surrendering principle for political expediency is not a virtue.
At least the decision is where it belongs, at the state level.
Yes, but there are just as many distortions brought in by considering family income, or hourly wage, etc.
Agreed, but it is not a surrender of principle to say that if we are going to have a minimum wage, we should have the least economically and politically harmful one possible.
Why don't they lower the minimum wage to about $2.00 an hour. Then, when market forces put the wage for entry level jobs at about $6.00-$7.00, imagine the wonderful self-esteem these workers will have knowing they are making more than TWICE minimum wage!
Making a bad idea work better gives aid to those who deserve our contempt and opposition.
Rather, those who oppose the law should insist on $100 per hour if they are going to concede defeat. In other words, they should make sure it works worse, not better.
In practice I don't see what good it does if it results in putting into power the very ones that will go in the opposite direction of the good you seek to produce. First you educate the people before you attempt radical change and we are a long way from an educated populace as Froufrou mentions.
In other words, like it or not, the minimum wage is here and probably to stay. Either conservatives learn how to deal with the issue or they remain sitting on the sidelines without power while things get worse and not better.
I agree with myself in theory and in practice, so we disagree.
Fair enough.
And you might be surprised at just how little disagreement there is.....
Not really, we would be in total disagreement if one of us actually thought the government should set prices. Since neither does, it's just a small debate about tactics.
Have a nice day.
I was commenting on how cruel Alabama Democratic gubernatorial nominee Lucy Baxley seems.
She is promising to raise the minimum wage to $6.15. Someone in her position (at least as she tells it) will only raise wages to a subsistance level.
With her power she could raise it to $16.15, right? Yet she doesn't promise that. Oh no, only $6.15.
She evidently is determined to keep these people in poverty. That's cruel.
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